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Barbano
on statewide Nevada Newsmakers TV show
Open
season on law-breaking dangerous drones
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 12-29-2015 Sparks Tribune,
Updated 12-30-2015
Hunka
Hunka Bernie Love
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SOLIDARITY
— Communications Workers of America members and their
families from throughout northern Nevada pose with Sen.
Sanders after his speech. NevadaLabor.com editor Andrew
Barbano, far right, holds up his copy of the Dec. 3 edition
of Rolling Stone with Sen. Sanders on the cover.
The senator signed it immediately after the photo-op. Primo.
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Sanders
promises penalties for state corporate welfare
Sparks,
Nev. (U-News) [Copyright © 2015 NevadaLabor.com] 4:55 p.m.
PST 12-27-2015, 00:55 GMT 12-28-2015 — Campaigning in northwestern
Nevada, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont,
told a standing-room-only crowd at the Northern Nevada Labor
Temple that he would work to inhibit state vs. state corporate
welfare.
Sheet Metal Workers Union Local 26/AFL-CIO Business Development
Director Rob Benner asked "Senator, I assume you've
noticed the 'Fix Tesla First' sign
on the wall. Another electric car company, China-owned Faraday,
has just received $334 million in tax breaks to come to Nevada.
This came almost exactly a year after state government granted
Tesla $1.4 billion. What can you do to fix this?"
Sanders understood the problem, stating that "it's not
as simple as I will say it, but I would work to see that states
lose some portion of federal benefits when they grant huge tax
incentives such as you are describing which hurt needed services."
Sanders also said that he would support automatic union recognition
if 50 percent plus one worker sign cards saying they want a
union.
President Obama promised to support such legislation
when he ran in 2008, but the White House never got behind the
now long-dead Employee Free Choice Act.
Sanders also opposed a recent proposal to enact a national "right-to-work-for-less"
law, adding that if workers get the benefits of a union
contract, "they should contribute."
He noted his longtime opposition to treaties such as the Clinton
administration's North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
and the current Trans Pacific Partnership, both of which allow
shipping U.S. jobs to low-wage countries. He added that he knows
some Republican senators who have problems with the TPP and
it may not pass in this session of Congress.
Sanders advocated for a $15 per hour minimum wage, noting that
a working male today makes $700 per year less than he did in
1973, adjusted for inflation. Sanders added that women have
also lost ground, especially over the past decade.
NevadaLabor.com Editor Andrew Barbano asked Sen. Sanders
if he would support a fix to Obamacare which has put union health
plans in jeopardy and is forcing union workers to pay a tax
for which they receive nothing.
"Absolutely," Sanders replied.
Sanders
answered every question from the audience which ranged from
moppets to retirees. One young man noted that since he will
be 18 by the general election next year, he will be allowed
to participate in Nevada's February caucus. Sen. Sanders noted
that Iowa likewise allows youth participation. He added that
he's running ahead in New Hampshire, is getting closer in Iowa
and if he also does well in Nevada and S. Carolina, victory
will be possible.
In the
Dec. 3 edition of Rolling Stone, he stated that "Nobody
denies, Hillary Clinton least of all, that she is an
establishment candidate."
Sanders signed Barbano's Dec. 3 Rolling Stone cover.
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Faraday's
fair name befouled in fallow fields of North Vegas
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 12-22-2015 Sparks Tribune
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FIX
TESLA FIRST — Unions protest Faraday giveaway
Las
Vegas Sun 12-16-2015
"Democrats
are pushing for a workforce diversity requirement in the legislation,
looking at the way that Faraday’s workforce can represent
and benefit the diverse population in North Las Vegas,"
the Sun reports.
BREAKING
NEWS 3:00 p.m. PST 12-17-2015: Republicans have introduced
an amendment to Assembly Bill 1, not yet posted online, to prohibit
unions from taking part in the workforce training program included
in the measure. (The Sparks City Council must
be advising them.) Stay tuned.
UPDATE:
2:49 a.m. PST 12-18: STILL NO AMENDMENT POSTED. Skullduggery
be afoot. Beware.
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Another
corporate welfare special legislative
session begins
Building trades unions demonstrate: "Fix Tesla
First"
Union
workers protest no accountability for promised local jobs at Tesla corporate
welfare site. Same old story, different players.
Officials
again chant the old used car salesman's mantra: Get 'em in, mislead
'em & get 'em outta here
Outside
of the capitol, a handful of protestors from the Building
and Construction Trades Council of Northern Nevada urged
lawmakers to “Fix Tesla First.”
“During the Tesla deal, we only got 50% local hire requirement.
There was no protection for local business and contractors,”
says Rob Benner.
The Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada (is) also
urging lawmakers to be cautious in drafting provisions for Faraday
Future. (A letter stated) in part: "For a non-Nevadan company
whose product remains unseen and performance and skills (are)
unproven, it is only just and responsible that they adhere to
protections to put our people and planet first," PLAN Executive
Director Bob Fulkerson wrote.
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Text of handbill distributed by workers at the legislative
building —
FIX
TESLA FIRST
What
did the citizens in Northern Nevada get for $1.4 billion?
- 50% local
hire requirement. 100% Nevada taxpayer money.
- Lack of
enforcement for required reports
- A strain
on our aging infrastructure
- More overcrowding
in our schools
- No requirements
for local businesses and local contractors
- No reporting
requirements for percentage of local businesses
- Washoe County
taxpayers are faced with raising $819 million to pay
for school overcrowding and repair needs.
In
September 2014 the State of Nevada entered into the
biggest tax giveaway in its history, giving away
1.4
billion dollars to Tesla.
Even though we were promised there would be transparency
and oversight, Tesla has been slow to file all of the
reports that were required. Storey County has not filed
all of the reports required by Senate Bill 1.
Before
Nevada enters into another huge tax give away with another
electric car manufacturer, tell Governor Sandoval to
FIX TESLA FIRST!
This
message brought to you by the Building and Construction
Trades Council of Northern Nevada
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FIX
TESLA FIRST — Unions protest Faraday giveaway
Las
Vegas Sun 12-16-2015
Baa
Baa Black Sheep, have you any wool?
"Shear me in cold winter, a corporate welfare fool."
Nevada
legislators flock to special session for Faraday
Las
Vegas Review-Journal 12-16-2015
Sometimes,
even the moonhowlers get one right
Tesla
numbers cast doubt on rosy Faraday projections
Audit shows Tesla project falling far short of 2015 forecasts
Victor Joecks / Nevada Policy Research Institute
12-17-2015
Is the moon full?
Blast
from the past
Taxpayers
taken for Teslacide demo ride
Barbwire
Nevada Corporate Welfare Archive
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This
is not the America anyone's God blessed
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 12-15-2015 Sparks Tribune
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capture and import the above into your e-mail window. Thanks to
all who showed up SRO.
Proceedings were broadcast via Charter Cable 191 and AT&T
U-Verse Channel 99.
Call
your Sparks councilcritters at (775) 353-2311.
Find ward maps and e-mail addresses at http://cityofsparks.us/city-services/mayorcouncil-and-manager/
Don't
diminish value of technical education
SAFETY
WARNING: Sparks City Council votes Dec. 14 to allow unlicensed
plumbers & electricians
Guest editorial from Stan Jones and Andrew Barbano
Reno Gazette-Journal online 12-10-2015 / Print
edition 12-14-2015
Listen
to radio campaign rallying Sparks workers & citizens
Featuring
the voices of Jim McClain, Donna Lewis and Andrew Barbano
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NAACP unanimously opposes removal of licensing standards
WHEREAS
the NAACP has always supported the need for an educated
workforce,
AND WHEREAS the City of
Sparks is proposing to remove licensing qualification
requirements for plumbers and electricians,
BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED
that the Reno-Sparks NAACP opposes passage of Sparks City
Council Agenda Item No. 10.2 on its 14 December 2015 agenda,
which would remove all such licensing qualification standards.
—
Passed unanimously at the 12-10-2015 Reno-Sparks
NAACP general membership meeting
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Dirty
deeds done dirt cheap—again and again
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 12-8-2015 Sparks Tribune
Turf
and training: Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Contractors
oppose education with a twist of bigotry and racism before the
Sparks City Council
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 12-1-2015 Sparks Tribune
/ Updated 12-2-2015
On
artificial turf, don't breathe unless necessary
Toxic
turf all over town
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 11-24-2015 Sparks
Tribune
Sorcerer's
apprentices work cheap in Nevada
Want
minimum-wage plumbers and electricians building your house?
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 11-17-2015 Sparks
Tribune
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Machine
Gun Michele Fiore wants to shoot Syrian refugees
Barbwire
by Barbano / Excised from the 3-10-2015 Sparks Tribune as "not
suitable" / Updated 12-8-2015
On
Dec. 1, 1955, on the night
of Rosa Parks’ arrest, Jo Ann Gibson Robinson stayed
up all night mimeographing 35,000 flyers announcing the boycott of the
Montgomery bus system. (MORE)
Turf
and training: Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 12-1-2015 Sparks Tribune
/ Updated 12-2-2015
Happy
Thanksgibleting
Love and laughter to you and yours
Almanac
for Thanksgiving weekend
On
artificial turf, don't breathe unless necessary
Toxic
turf all over town
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 11-24-2015 Sparks Tribune
Sorcerer's
apprentices work cheap in Nevada
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 11-17-2015 Sparks Tribune / Updated
11-20-2015
Weekend
at Bernie's with Eugene McCarthy's grandchildren
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 11-10-2015 Sparks Tribune / Updated
11-12-2015
Last
of the dinosaurs: Grease for corporate gears
Reno
Gazette-Journal "retires" most experienced journalists
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 11-3-2015 Sparks Tribune
Bigoted
Reno Gazette-Journal column debunked
By
Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 10-29-2015
Reno-Sparks
NAACP responds
The
Donald and The Church Lady run among us
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 10-27-2015 Sparks Tribune / Updated
with a merry 'toon
Sen.
Ruben Kihuen, D-Las Vegas, to emcee NAACP 70th Annual Freedom Fund Awards
Dinner Oct. 24 at Circus Circus-Reno
Speakers
and award winners announced
Barbano
on statewide Nevada Newsmakers TV show
From
holy of holies to lair of the moneychangers
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 10-20-2015 Sparks Tribune
Parsing
the paranoia of powerful penny-pinchers
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 10-13-2015 Sparks Tribune
Good
news, bad news and Machine Gun Michele
Washoe
County schools norovirus outbreak spreads
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 10-6-2015 Sparks Tribune
NN
Central Labor Council president rebuts Reno Gazette-Journal GOP-jaundiced
Labor Day coverage
By
Mike Pilcher / Reno Gazette-Journal Guest Editorial/ Sunday 10-4-2015
Strange
bedfellows and nubile wenches
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 9-29-2015 Sparks Tribune
Barbano
on statewide Nevada Newsmakers TV show
Worker
dies after a construction accident at UNLV's Thomas & Mack Center
Las
Vegas Review-Journal 9-23-2015
9-22-2015
—>
Yogi Berra is dead at 90. All America mourns.
10-1-2015 Yogi and
the Pope
Pondering
the bright side of warmongering
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 9-22-2015 Sparks Tribune
"Why
Wait?” Citizenship Workshop in Las Vegas Sept. 19
Progressive
Groups, Local Attorneys, Labor Organizations, Spanish Language Media
and Grassroots Advocates Make Huge Push to Honor Citizenship Day 2015
Culinary
Union Local 226 / 9-17-2015
Making
it: Do casino jobs provide a way into the middle class?
By
Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 9-17-2015
Another
lawsuit challenges religious school tax grants
By
Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 9-17-2015
Cheering
for cheating when jockocracy rules
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 9-15-2015 Sparks Tribune
We
don't need no education, biblical or not
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 9-8-2015 Sparks Tribune
Union
sisters and brothers: Participate in the Sept. 7 Virginia
City Labor Day Parade.
Contact Liz Sorensen at
CWA 9413, (775) 322-9413 ASAP.
Participants
should meet at the top of the hill at the old school house at 537 South
C Street no later than 11:00 a.m.
On
9-3-1937,
in his powerful “Labor, like Israel” radio address now included
in many collections of U.S. rhetoric, labor leader John L. Lewis
denounced politicians who were aided by labor in elections but then
supported management in industrial disputes, mentioning Chicago Mayor
Edward Kelly, Ohio Governor Martin Davey, and President Franklin Roosevelt
(who during the bloody “Little Steel Strike” had said “A
curse on both your houses” to employers and the workers who had
been brutalized and murdered by management goons). [Courtesy
of longtime Nevada reporter Dennis
Myers' daily Poor Denny's Almanac]
Labor
Day 2016: Nevada workers' last stand
Barbwire
Exclusives: Gansert
will run to replace Brower in Nevada Senate
Better late than never dept.: The Reno Gazette-Journal
confirmed the above on Sept. 9
Complaint filed against welfare-bashing illegal GOP front petition
Barbwire by Barbano / Uploaded 8-30-2015/ Expanded from the Tuesday
9-1-2015 Sparks Tribune
I
Didn't Come From Your Rib — You Came From My Vagina
Country
wisdom for moonhowlers who salivate to take their country back
A musical reminder to the GOP / Daily Kos 8-20-2015
Hope
one of your detractors attends your funeral
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 8-25-2015 Sparks Tribune
Workers
demonstrate at Las Vegas Trump hotel 8-21
“Want
to make America great again? Start here.”
Longtime
Nevada union leader Richard Ciesynski dies at 81
Memorial
service 1:00 p.m. Friday, 21 Aug. 2015, Mountain View Mortuary, 425
Stoker, Reno NV 89503
Don't
call a lawyer to sue a doctor
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 8-18-2015 Sparks Tribune
DMV
lines, voting lines and lines in the sand
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 8-11-2015 Sparks Tribune
Modest
Catherine Cortez-Masto fundraiser Aug. 9 in Reno
Barbano
promotes Voting Rights Act 50th Anniversary March on statewide TV
Sam Shad turns down wager that FOX News debate will not win time
period
Wednesday
8-5-2015 KRNV TV-4 Reno/KENV TV-10 Elko 12
noon PDT
Host: Sam
Shad
Guest: Xiaoyu Pu, Assistant Professor of Political Science, UNR
Pundits: John Sande, Lobbyist, Argentum Partners
Andrew
Barbano, Editor, NevadaLabor.com
Statewide
TV and radio re-run times and dates + view online
The
light side of prison escape
The
Lost Column: Composed 6-9-2015 and refused by major corporate media
/ Uploaded Wednesday 8-5-2015
JFK
and LBJ: The truth about the besieged
1965 Voting Rights Act
Heroic
lions, pampered elephants & sweating RINOS
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 8-4-2015 Sparks Tribune
Ironic
colonics, shameless strumpetry & repo men
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 7-28-2015 Sparks Tribune
Happy
birthday, Sen. Joe Neal. Born 7-28-1935,
Mounds, Louisiana.
Longtime
union leader and former Nevada labor official John Byrne dead at 90
Memorial
service 11:00 a.m. Saturday, 25 July 2015, Our Lady of the Snows, 1138
Wright St., Reno NV 89509
Freedom
rider Erma Arvilla Rupp Fritchen dies
Memorial
service 10:00 a.m. Sat. 25 July 2015, Sparks United Methodist Church,
1231 Pyramid Way
On
July 24, 1963, to
avoid the embarrassment of a civil rights march against Las Vegas’
segregated casinos, the Sahara broke the solid phalanx among
casinos and agreed to talks with the local NAACP branch headed
by Marion Bennett; in 1971, John D. Loudermilk’s
Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian)
by The Raiders hit number one on the Billboard chart and
went on to become the biggest selling single in the history of Columbia
Records.
[Courtesy of Poor Denny's Almanac]
7-23-2015
On this date in
1868, the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, providing for due
process under law, was ratified.
[Courtesy
of Poor Denny's Almanac]
On this date in 1991, President Bush the Elder signed the Americans
with Disabilities Act into law.
Stumpin'
for Trump
Democrats
should join Donald Trump on the bridge to the future and push him off
Andrew Barbano guest editorial / Reno News & Review 7-23-3015
Moving
the needle and needling the weasels
Education
funding hike non-existent / Confederate flags fly in Sparks
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 7-21-2015 Sparks Tribune
15
July 2015
On
7-15-1986, César
Chávez spoke to Nevada workers at the
Musicians Union hall in Reno
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Obama
pays tribute to late Reno labor leader
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THE
WAY WE WERE — The above is a recently discovered
photo from July 15, 1986. Left to right are Kathy Brown,
Culinary Union Local 86 office manager; Miguel Contreras,
Local 86 Secretary-Treasurer; Local 86 President Bill Uehlein;
a lady named Natalie (anyone who knows her last name, please
write), and César Chávez. This item was
first published in Ahora, northern Nevada's Spanish-English
weekly, on March 26, 2008. (On 3-19-2009, President Obama paid
tribute to Brother Contreras as he spoke in the L.A. building
named after the late labor leader. See the 1986 Chávez
Reno archive, below.)
(Photo
courtesy of Dan Rusnak, retired business manager of Laborers'
Union Local 169.)
More stories and photos
from César Chávez's 1986 Reno visit
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School,
life, death, taxes and other high ironies
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 7-14-2015 Sparks Tribune
Longtime
Sparks resident and decorated airman Fidel Sauceda dies
All
the news you never knew you needed to know
Barbwire by Barbano / Blue text represents substantial
expansion from the Tuesday 7-7-2015 Sparks Tribune
New
developments in the Judith Black murder case
Applying
Christian forgiveness to a fault
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 6-30-2015 Sparks Tribune
Life
& death tickle the underbelly of the news
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 6-23-2015 Sparks Tribune
Poor
Denny's Almanac for June 22: Black
woman rescues Klansman
Louis
defeats Schmeling
Poor
Denny's Almanac June 19: Medgar
Evers laid to rest
Schmeling
defeats Louis
NAACP
again fights NE Reno library closure
Education
Dysfunction Part LVI—>
Al
Capone takes stock of Nevada education
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 6-16-2015 Sparks Tribune
The
2015 Nevada Legislature's greatest hits
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 6-9-2015 Sparks Tribune
June
7 ceremony in Dayton, Nev., honors former slave and Union Army Civil
War Soldier Pvt. Scott Carnal, 79th U.S. Colored Infantry, died 7 June
1917, buried at Dayton Cemetery
Poor
Denny's Almanac June 3: From
Dens of Iniquity to Holy of Holies
Stench
of sulfur suffuses Nevada's year of the gun
The
ghost of Trayvon Martin today hangs heavy over Sparks.
Would killer Wayne Burgarello have been acquitted
if he was black?
Barbwire by Barbano / Uncensored full-length edition expanded from the
censored Tuesday 6-2-2015 Sparks Tribune
Updated 6-6-2015: How
I handled a similar situation
2015
LEGISLATIVE END GAME (at least until special sessions start)
Union
workers sound the alarm door-to-door in Carson City & Las Vegas
9:00
a.m. PDT Saturday 30 May 2015
Union
cabbies plan mass Las Vegas Strip stoppage/demonstration May 29
Las
Vegas Review-Journal 5-28-2015
26
May 2015: On this date in 2012, Travus T. Hipp was laid to rest in Silver
City, Nevada
Dogs
and ponies, DARE traps and tokenism
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 5-26-2015 Sparks Tribune
Corporate
welfare unites me with the moonhowlers
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 5-19-2015 Sparks Tribune
Postal
Workers National Day of Action
Thursday 5-14-2015
Hotplates,
hotheads, hot rumors and hot Moose
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 5-12-2015 Sparks Tribune
¡Feliz
Cinco
de
Mayo!
Poor
Denny's Almanac for 5-5-2015
On
May 5, 2012 at Barrio Logan, the Navy cargo ship U.S.N.S
César Chávez
was christened.
MayDay!
The bright side of riots in the streets
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 5-5-2015 Sparks Tribune
Mayday!
– IWW
May Day Picnic and BBQ Friday, May 1 at 4:00 p.m. Pickett Park in Reno,
Nevada, on Mill Street across from Renown Hospital and Corporate Welfare
Medical and Insurance Conglomerate. Details/Join/Maybe/Decline
We will commemorate the International Workers' Holiday with food, music,
song and (oh, all right) some oratory. Bring food to share with one
another.
In
the Uber-Nevada Legislature, words can kill
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 4-28-2015 Sparks Tribune
80
percent of success is showing up—>
So show up!
Tesla
rewrites history to chisel worker paychecks
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 4-21-2015 Sparks Tribune
Radiation
Nation:
Gomorrah South bakes in
the glow of victory
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 4-14-2015 Sparks Tribune
¡Viva
Chávez!
César
Chávez Celebration XIII
/ Celebración
de César Chávez XIII
Tuesday
31 March 2015
/ Martes
31 de Marzo 2015
Circus
Circus Reno / Event highlights
Revenge,
redistricting and amnesia in Cartoon City
Plus
more highlights from César
XIII
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 4-7-2015 Sparks Tribune
Road
construction worker Ron Raiche Jr. of Battle Mountain, Laborers' Local
169 member, dies on I-80 East
By Dylan
Woolf Harris / Elko Daily Free Press 3-31-2015
César
Chávez fought for the dignity of work
by
Tony Mayorga
Guest Commentary
/ Reno Gazette-Journal / 3-31-2015
Harry
Reid, Eddy Arnold, César Chávez & Gaga Madonna
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 3-31-2015 Sparks Tribune
When
César Chávez came
to Reno
|
Obama
pays tribute to late Reno labor leader
|
|
THE
WAY WE WERE — The above is a recently discovered
photo from July 15, 1986. Left to right are Kathy Brown,
Culinary Union Local 86 office manager; Miguel Contreras,
Local 86 Secretary-Treasurer; Local 86 President Bill Uehlein;
a lady named Natalie (anyone who knows her last name, please
write), and César Chávez. This item was
first published in Ahora, northern Nevada's Spanish-English
weekly, on March 26, 2008. (On 3-19-2009, President Obama paid
tribute to Brother Contreras as he spoke in the L.A. building
named after the late labor leader. See the 1986 Chávez
Reno archive, below.)
(Photo
courtesy of Dan Rusnak, retired business manager of Laborers'
Union Local 169.)
More stories and photos
from César Chávez's 1986 Reno visit
|
Barbano:
GOP strategy to cripple labor, then gerrymander Nevada control thru
at least 2022
By
Cole Stangler / International Business Times 3-25-2015
High
noon for the high desert outback of the American Dream
Small
minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss
ideas.
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 3-24-2015 Sparks Tribune
St.
Patrick, I need a green energy beer
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 3-17-2015 Sparks Tribune
Michele
Fiore: the Italian girl
mama wanted for me?
Barbwire
by Barbano / Excised from the 3-10-2015 Sparks Tribune as "not
suitable" / Continually updated
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Who
was that lady I saw you with last night?
(But
can she cook?)
|
Clinging
to the Ledge: guts, feathers and all
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 3-3-2015 Sparks Tribune
We
don't need no stinking wages!
Barbwire
by Barbano / Special online edition 2-26-2015
The
skeleton of the underbelly of the news
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 2-24-2015 Sparks Tribune
Parsing
our parsimonious public pursers
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 2-17-2015 Sparks Tribune
What
else is new? Southern Nevada CLC authorizes strike sanction vs.
wage violator.
The
flush of victory and the irony of deceit
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 2-10-2015 Sparks Tribune
Senate
Republicans take a jackhammer to the bedrock of Nevada trade unionism
The last bastion of local hire
comes under fire
By
Sean Whaley / Las Vegas Review-Journal 2-4-2015
U-News
Exclusive: HAZMAT EMERGENCY DECONTAMINATION
AT WINNEMUCCA JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL / UPDATE:
All schools closed Friday and Monday 2-20 & 2-23/ NEW—>
PHOTOS FROM THE OBSCENE SCENE
|
Student
Josh Turner gets hosed and loses his shoes
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—
Joe Turner photo —> More
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Blowing
out for Beantown: Defrocked Washoe
Super Pedro Martinez fingered as finalist for Boston school boss job.
That should jinx the Patriots for a repeat.
We
Don't Need No Education Archive
Washoe
school boss addresses NAACP
Follytix,
Foxcatchers and corporate weasels
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 2-3-2015 Sparks Tribune
Machine
Gun Michele and cheap Ma Bell
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 1-27-2015 Sparks Tribune
The
South Rises Again. Does Ira
Hansen know about this?
3
states make MLK holiday a co-celebration honoring Confederate General
Robert E. Lee
Shaun King / Daily KOS 1-22-2015
Education
Dysfunction Part LIII—>
Gov.
Veto El Obtusè talks some trash
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 1-20-2015 Sparks Tribune
Poor
Denny's Almanac for Jan. 19: Lord
of War
Poor
Denny's Almanac for Jan. 18: Goose
and Gander
Poor
Denny's Almanac
for Jan. 17, 2015: Imperial
America
In memoriam
January
16, 1959, brought the births of Debra Joyce Donlevy/Carson High '77
(1959-1978) and Donna Leslie Cline (1959-1999). Their
youth was cut in twain on the same night in 1978 within the loneliness
of the High Desert Outback of the American Dream. Remember them fondly.
Longtime
LV Assemblymember Jerry Claborn dies
Northern
NV MLK Weekend events find new venue
Good
grief: Je suis Charlie Brown
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 1-13-2015 Sparks Tribune
Corporate
media: Thou shalt censor thyself
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 1-6-2015 Sparks Tribune
¡Feliz
año nuevo!
DEC. 17
ONE-TIME SHOWING, part of a coast-to-coast tour: Shadows
of Liberty reveals the extraordinary truth behind the
news media: censorship, cover-ups and corporate control.
FEATURING Danny Glover, Julian Assange,
Dan Rather, Amy Goodman, David Simon, Daniel Ellsberg, Norman Solomon,
Janine Jackson, Dick Gregory, Roberta Baskin, Jeff Cohen, Robert McChesney,
John Nichols, Chris Hedges, Kristina Borjesson and many
more.
Northern
Nevada Labor Temple
1819 Hymer Ave. / Sparks NV 89431
Wednesday, Dec. 17, 7:00 p.m. PST
MORE
INFO AND WATCH THE TRAILER
Barbano
on statewide Nevada Newsmakers TV show
Tuesday
12-16-2014 KRNV TV-4 Reno/KENV TV-10 Elko 11:30
a.m. PST
Andrew
Barbano and Sam Shad for an entire program
(About damn time
after 22 freakin' years)
Psychically
cynical but nonetheless newsworthy political proctology, peerless
professional prognostication and epic poetic proselytizing promiscuously
promised.
TV
and radio re-run times and dates + view online
12-9-2014:
Barbano and Gammick actually agree on something. Check
hell for
snowfall.
Host: Sam
Shad
Guest: State Senator James Settelmeyer, R-Minden, Capital Senate
District
Pundits: Jesse Gutierrez, Former Executive Director, Nevada Hispanic
Services
Dick Gammick, Washoe County District Attorney
Andrew
Barbano, Editor, NevadaLabor.com
Watch
this website or get on
the Barbwire e-mail list for future shows.
Breaking
Bad 4: Ira & his ammosexuals flip us the finger
Hansen
places his puppets in top slots but still controls the lower house.
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 12-9-2014 Sparks Tribune /
Updated 12-11-2014
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BREAKING
BAD
Walter White and some other white guy
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Breaking
Bad 3: Ira, the guv and the dragonslayers
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 12-2-2014 Sparks Tribune
Nevada
Lawmaker Ira Hansen Is Forced From Leadership Post Over Remarks on
Minorities
By KIMBERLEY McGEE and ADAM NAGOURNEY / The New York Times / 11-24-2014
Breaking
Bad Part Deux: Ira blames the Tribune
Barbwire
by Barbano / Submitted for publication 11-21-2014 / Expanded from
the 11-25-2014 Daily Sparks Tribune
IRA
ON TV-4: I'm
not a racist, I just play one on TV
BREAKING
BAD 11-23-2014 —> Hansen resigns as Nevada State Assembly
Speaker
Speaker-elect
Hansen bigot, racist, homophobe
BARBANO
DECRIES HANSEN ON STATEWIDE NEVADA NEWSMAKERS TV
KRNV TV-4 Reno / KENV TV-10
Elko / 11:30
a.m. PST Tuesday,
11-18-2014
Re-run
times and dates + view online
Host: Sam Shad
Guest: Ray Hagar, Reno Gazette-Journal
Pundits:
Michael Hackett, Alrus Consulting
Jesse Gutierrez, charter school operator and former Executive Director,
Nevada Hispanic Services
Andrew
Barbano, Editor, NevadaLabor.com
Related
item:
Follytix
'15: From Topless Campaign to Breaking Bad
Barbwire
by Barbano / Sparks Tribune 11-18-2014
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BREAKING
BAD
Walter White and some other white guy
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...Who?
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The
documented racism and bigotry of incoming Nevada State Assembly Speaker
Ira Hansen
Barbwire by Barbano / Sparks Tribune /
11-18-2014
| I
hope you will do all you can to get the Republican Party to repudiate
this bigoted legislator. He is a disgrace to Nevada and a disgrace
to democracy. The onus here needs to be placed on the Republican
Party. Are they going to continue to harbor this man and treat
him as a responsible human being or expose him as the scoundrel
he really is? Can he continue in this position of responsibility
or should he be made to step down? Make them choose! — Julian
Bond, NAACP Chairman Emeritus, 11-20-2014 |
Reno-Sparks
NAACP calls on Assembly GOP Caucus to replace Hansen
11-20-2014
Reno
News & Review 11-20-2014: Republican
leader left a trail
SMOKING
GUNS: The Ira Hansen Files
HANDS OFF THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE
Nationwide
demonstrations Friday Nov. 14
1:00-5:00 p.m. at Reno Main on Vassar Street
On
Friday, 14 Nov. 2014, the four labor unions of the U.S.
Postal Service are sponsoring a National Day of Action
rally at 125 locations across America. We encourage
everyone who enjoys using the post office in its current
form to attend.
Northern Nevada contact: Paul
Maille (That's not a play on words. It's his real
name.) 775-846-6982.
Click here to find National
Day of Action locations nationwide. (It's a .pdf file
and takes time to load.)
Please consider signing
and sharing one of our petitions to save our post office.
This holiday season, we will be pushing hard once again
to get everyone we can to send us a letter or postcard to
SAVE OUR POST OFFICE, P.O. Box 5041, Terre Haute IN 47805.
We share these letters with Congress.
Thanks.
Your
USPS neighbors
Facebook.com/StopDelayingAmericasMail
www.StopMailDelays.org
EDITOR'S
NOTE: The strategy being employed by corporatists
in Congress is to degrade the service to a point that it
loses public support and can then be fully privatized. But
FedEx is not going to delivery Aunt Tillie's medicine in
Austin or your postcard to Cousin LeRoy in Paducah if they
don't live on profitable routes.
After WW2, GE
and GM bought up the cable cars of Los Angeles and degraded
the service until they could get politicians to blow up
the system. Result: People would have no choice but to buy
cars. There is now talk of bringing the trolleys back to
gridlocked LA — along the freeway routes which were
built on the cable car lines. (The technically groundbreaking
Robert Zemeckis-directed film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit"
was actually a historical satire of that real-life scenario.)
San Francisco and few other cities successfully resisted.
My Uncle John,
who was the Southern Pacific agent in Reno in the early
1950's, said the railroads did the same thing to what was
once legendary passenger service. They cut it back and made
the accommodations maddeningly poor so that there would
be little outcry when it was eliminated. They kept the passenger
revenue only without the all the food and sleeping car glamour
of old — and without all those union workers. How?
Ever wonder why
just about every Greyhound terminal in the U.S. was built
next to a railroad station? And they kept a lot of the small
freight and mail business in the belly of the busly beasts.
See you on the
picket line.
Be well. Raise
hell. Esté bien. Haga infierno.
ONSITE
IMPRESSIONS:
More
than 100 showed up to the picketing, as did the Reno
Gazette-Journal
and all major network-affiliated TV news departments, English
and Spanish. The postal service made a profit of $600,000,000
last year, but incurred a $5 billion
on-paper loss due to the 2006 Republican congressional
mandate that USPS pay for health care for as-yet unborn
retirees 75 years before they are birthed, conceived or
even a twinkly in their parents' eyeballs. (Don't you wish
you could get your health insurance paid just by thinking
about it?)
There's
a strong right-wing minority lobby for the rights of the
unborn, but might this not be a trifle excessive? The media
largely ignore the 75-year absurdity to focus strictly on
the annual accounting bottom line red ink.
WHAT'S
NEXT? Greyhound, FedEx wants to meet for lunch
to learn more about how you do it.
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| BLAST
FROM THE PAST —> FED UP AT
THE FEDERAL BUILDING (9-27-2011) —> More than
200 postal workers and members of other unions demonstrated at
the Bruce Thompson Federal Building in Reno in favor of passage
of HR 1351, which would remove the funding drain now threatening
the United States Postal Service. The federal courthouse may be
seen in the window reflections of the auto in the foreground.
Another
rally was held in Reno on 24 march 2013. (NevadaLabor.com
photo) |
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Voting,
gloating, loathing and scapegoating
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 11-11-2014 Daily Sparks Tribune
Get
Outta Dodge, Part Deux
ToljaSo
Dept.—> Evil twin school bosses Martinez and Morrison axed
in the same week. Read the latest dispatches about The Music Man scoring
tar and feathers in North Carolina
Tar Heel country, then remember
how Heath Morrison and Pedro Martinez created a similar climate of
fear in Nevada.
Bully
boys run out on a rail
Take special note of the Barbwires of 5-13 and 5-20-2012
At
Last: Journalist Dennis Myers deconstructs the day that Reno-Sparks-Washoe
school boss Pedro Martinez melted down
Nevada
attorney general succumbs to Reno paper's reprehensible rabble-rousing
MUST
SEE: Myers interview on 11-11-2014 Nevada Newsmakers with Sam Shad.
Click here for re-runs and webstreaming.
Virginia
City's next scary sexy Hollywood movie
Virginia City 911: Sexy Sheriffing in
Old ConforteLand
Barbwire
by Barbano / Special Nevada Day Edition 10-31-2014
Updated 11-1 and 11-3-2014 / 2-10, 3-3 , 6-23 and 7-2-2015
Follytix
'14: Year of the Topless Campaign
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 10-28-2014 Sparks Tribune
Barbwire:
Nevada not really
a state
No,
we were not Battle Born in Kenya
Top
10 reasons Nevada lives in the 19th Century
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
10-17-2013 Sparks Tribune
Words
from God on Nevada ballots and Ebola
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 10-21-2014 Sparks Tribune
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"I
heard a bit of good news today. We shall pass this way but
once."
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And
the moonhowlers criticized Vice-President Joseph Biden for
visiting
Gomorrah South to press for an increase in the minimum
wage. Need any more reason to vote?
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'Toon
by George
Price from the 14 April 1973 edition of The New Yorker. Sent
by a reader.
Copyright © The New Yorker 1973
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Cheap
thrills: Sex banned in Gomorrah South
How
to intimidate Nevadans from registering to vote — by a Democrat,
no less
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from
the 10-14-2014 Sparks Tribune
Education
Dysfunction Part L—>
True
confessions from the back of the bus
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 10-7-2014 Sparks Tribune
Education
Dysfunction Part XLIX—>
We
don't need no education: Leaks R Us
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 9-30-2014 Sparks Tribune
LA
Times 9-28-14: Nevada overstating economic benefits of Tesla factory
Federal
judge refuses to stop Nevada fracking
By
Scott Sonner / Associated Press 9-27-2014
–>9/23
Teamsters OK new contract with Reno-Sparks-Washoe
transit system
–>9/23
Washoe School Superintendent Pedro Martinez out as The
Barbwire exclusively predicted last week
FIRE
METERS FUEL A LONG, HOT SUMMER
As with the bright, shining lies of the Washoe
and Clark County School Districts' graduation rates, the Reno
Gazette-Journal
is again two years behind the Barbwire
(11 October 2012) regarding NVEnergy's combustible "smart meters."
It ain't news unless the legit media find it first, right?
The
latest shrift & shred on Tesla fever
Taxpayers
taken for Teslacide demo ride
Elon
Musk: Pseudo-green plantation overlord and union buster
Can
megaresorts scam Tesla-style freebies?
EXTRA—>READ
ALL ABOUT IT: Barbwire scoops Reno Gazette-Journal by 2 years on flammable
NVEnergy fire meters
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 9-23-2014 Sparks Tribune
Education
Dysfunction Part XLVIII—>
St.
Elon, Lord Pedro and Gov. Veto El Obtúsè
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 9-16-2014 Sparks Tribune
9-23-2014
CRYSTAL BALL UPDATE: The above column accurately predicted Supt. Martinez's
departure one week in advance
Tinkle-down
economics: testing Tesla's testes
Tesla
and the hospital thieves:
Theft of Washoe Med/Renown provides cautionary tale
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 9-9-2014 Sparks Tribune
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Navigating
the flagship—>Making quick work of NevadaLabor.com
WHEN
ALL ELSE FAILS DEPT.—> A year pr sp back, I got my
first criticism in twp decades that this site is a bit confusing
to navigate. I take that as a compliment. Confusing people is
one of my few talents.
I thought I had anticipated any such problems
years ago by liberally sprinkling links to the front page site
map. (These days, am I supposed to say that I sprinkled progressively
rather than liberally?)
The front page of NevadaLabor.com acts
as a chronological listing of recent workplace news with the latest
at the top. I archive annually to create a continuous permanent
record fully accessible via the site map or
any garden-variety websearch.
"We Don't
Need No Education" is now approaching its 50th installment
and thus merits its
own section inside. Say hi to Don Quixote.
Current
Barbwires plus more than 20 years of columaniacal archives,
the Statewide News Roundup
and Breaking News/Bull'tins/Almanac
are all available via the site map—>as
well as the usual general or specific ongoing madness and historical
inflammation. (Once something's posted here or to any of my other
sites, it's up forever.)
While the front page is chronological,
the Statewide News Roundup
is categorical, e.g., construction, hospitality, legislation,
health care and many others. Breaking
News/Bull'tins/Almanac often publishes original U-News as
well as links to items at other sites that are not hot enough
for the front page chronology. The NevadaLabor.com
search engine acts as a short-cut to everything, depending
on what you seek. So simply seek and ye shall find.
As my old friend Wise John the Lake
Havasu Cropduster Pilot often says, "when all else
fails, read the instructions." So when all else fails,
re-read the above, then go to the nearest site
map link and/or "search."
The NevadaLabor.com search engine is really amazing. It's also
union-signatory and thus quite efficient.
Thanks for your inputs and support over
lo, these many years. Keep up the good work and the good fight.
Esté bien. Haga infierno. / Be
well. Raise hell.
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Top
Gun mechanics at NAS Fallon vote to strike
Teamsters
reach new tentative agreement with Washoe mass transit contractor
U-News
/ 9-5-2014
Door-to-door
salesmen and stoner stores
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune / 9-4-2014
Happy
Labor Day
On
Sept. 1, 1907, labor leader Walter Reuther, named
by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of
the 20th century, was born in Wheeling, West Virginia. (More
Labor Day Poor Denny's Almanac)
Labor
Day 2014: Red, white and screwed
Silver State Lining: Nevada union membership
10th-highest in the nation
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune / 8-28-2014
Be
well. Raise hell.
Southern
Nevada rally for good jobs at Boulder Station Aug. 29
UPDATED
22 AUGUST 2014 01:07 a.m. PDT, 08:07
ZULU/GMT/SUT/CUT —>
On this date in
1966, the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, now the United Farm
Workers of America (UFW), was formed from a merger of the National Farm
Workers Association and the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee
and became a powerful tool for the advancement of Latinos under the
leadership of César Chávez
and Dolores Huerta. (Courtesy
Dennis Myers'
daily Poor Denny's Almanac
© 2014)
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| OCTOBER,
1969 — César Chávez, right, and Walter Reuther,
center, at the dedication of the United Farm Workers' new headquarters
in Delano, Calif. The buildings were dedicated to Reuther's late
younger brother, Roy. The Reuther-led United Auto Workers were instrumental
in acquiring the land and funding for the "The 40 Acres,"
as the site was known. The man at left was on a picket line for
five years and may or may not be a Chávez relative. Anyone
who can identify him, please contact
me. A character resembling him appeared in many scenes of the
2014 major motion picture César Chávez. (Photo
courtesy of George Nelson, UAW Local 2162 Retirees.) |
Sexy
scandals, whitewashes & black towers
Media overlook federal
sex/race/ethnicity investigation into Washoe County School District
Meanwhile,
big money is spent strictly on abstinence
State panel to review militarization of police departments
In Nevada visit, new Veterans Administration boss
proves all jobs require training
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from
the Sparks Tribune / 8-21-2014
Nevada's
advisory committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights:
Police militarization barrier
to community relations
HANDS
UP! DON'T SHOOT! Moment of
Silence for slain Missouri teen August 14, 2014, in both Reno and Carson
City
Education
Dysfunction Part XLV—>
Bringing
serious heat well into the night
Nevadans host moment of silence for Missouri police shooting
victim Michael Brown
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune / 8-14-2014
TEAMSTERS
VOTE DOWN CONTRACT WITH RTC WASHOE TRANSIT OPERATOR
Education
Dysfunction Part XLIV—>
Pots
and Kettles: Can't we all get along?
BREAKING
NEWS—> WCSD Board of Trustees Vice-President
Dave Aiazzi has announced that he has been diagnosed with leukemia and
will be resigning by the end of September. Remember him with healing
thoughts and prayers.
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune / 8-7-2014
College
President: Race an issue in l'affaire Martinez
RENO (4 Aug. 2014) — On today's Nevada Newsmakers
program on KRNV TV-4/Reno and KENV TV-10/Elko, Truckee Meadows
Community College President Maria Sheehan stated "I
cannot tell you that race is not a factor" with respect
to the suspension of Washoe County School Superintendent
Pedro Martinez.
Her statement came
in response to a question from host Sam Shad. The Reno-Sparks
NAACP is preparing a response and has asked for a statement
from Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval.
The full interview,
which comes in the first segment of the program, will be available
by about 6:00 p.m. PDT at NevadaNewsmakers.com/
It may also be viewed this evening at 9:30 on Charter Cable
Channel 190 and 24/7 via Charter Cable On Demand. Click
here for the full
statewide re-run schedule.
The Barbwire of July
31(below) first decried the bogus injection of race into an
already tense situation.
Stay tuned.
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Education
Dysfunction Part XLIII—>
Playing
the race card for profit and peril
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune / 7-31-2014
Education
Dysfunction Part XLII—>
We
don't need no education or Pedro, either
Reno-Sparks-Washoe
school boss fired and unfired
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune / 7-24-2014 / UPDATED
From
longtime Nevada reporter Dennis
Myers' daily Poor Denny's Almanac: On July 30, 1965, after
defeating the bitter opposition of the American Medical Association
in one of the monumental legislative battles of the 20th century,
Medicare was created by Congress.
8-1-2014
— A tentative agreement has been reached with the operators of
the Reno-Sparks-Washoe transit system and Teamsters
Local 533. Members will take a ratification vote August 10.
How
to assassinate Medicare and Medicaid
Health
Savings Accounts: The insurance industry's Trojan Horse
Andrew
Barbano / Reno Gazette-Journal / 7-19-2014
Last
chance to endorse Don Dondero
for NPA Hall of Fame
Send it in NOW or forever
hold your peace
Migrant
laborers: Your folks and refugee kids
What
do broke Baby Boomers and Central American refugee children have in
common?
The future of the U.S. workforce.
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
7-17-2014 Sparks Tribune
ADMISSION
FREE
Nevadans
premiere live concert and film at Artown
A
cold shower for the NY Times Tesla gusher
40
years in the wilderness: Study says Silver State on downhill slide since
1970
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from
the
7-10-2014 Sparks Tribune
Ask
Hobby Lobby to take in refugee kids
So
five uptight old Catholic guys in grim reaper robes don't like contraception.
Wonder if they thought that way back in college?
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the
7-3-2014 Sparks Tribune
Sign
Rep. Barbara Lee's petition against a 3rd US-Iraq War
Barbara
Lee: The latter-day Jeannette
Rankin
More
about Congressmember Lee
Building
Trades Council responds to GOP misrepresentation
Sen.
Dean Heller attempts to stage an illegal political rally at federally-subsidized
housing complex
Teamsters
contract with Washoe transit system expires Monday, extension possible
JUNE 30 UPDATE:
Current contract extended through July 31, 2014.
6-29-2014
Update: Strike authorization passed overwhelmingly.
7-31-2014: A tentative agreement has been reached.
Local 533 members will take a ratification vote on August 10.
Labor
Losses:
Former Teamsters Local 533 Secretary-Treasurer/CEO
Louis E. Martino, Jr., 67
NEWLY
UPDATED: Martino graveside memorial service June 24/Mountain View/NW
Reno
Twila "LaDawn" Kulhanek Tutrow, Painters & Allied Trades
Local 567, 52
Barbano
on statewide Nevada Newsmakers show
Tesla
plants PR slants to get into the public's pants
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
6-19-2014 Sparks Tribune
Politics
is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly
concern them.
—
Paul Valery, French critic & poet (1871-1945)
Nevada's
righteous ayatollahs arise once again
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
6-5-2014 Sparks Tribune
Reno
Grand Sierra Resort sued for 4,700 employees' back pay
Longtime
CWA member Bill Birkman dies
When
your enemy is destroying himself, never interfere
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
5-29-2014 Sparks Tribune
Keep
chipping. Pretty soon, you've got a sculpture—>and lots of arrowheads!
LV
unions get deals with all 9 holdout hotels
Golden
Gate caves. No strike.
GG was most recent Gomorrah South property
struck (2002)
MESSAGE
FROM THE MAHATMA
about America's latest carnage
Souls
to the polls—> early voting
Barbara
Bennett, Erik Holland & Václav Havel
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
5-22-2014 Sparks Tribune
Stabbing
rock-sucking kangaroos on the Ides of May
Reno
Gazette-Journal blatantly manipulates mayoral contest
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
5-15-2014 Sparks Tribune
Negative
Optimism:
Making the best of being worst
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
5-8-2014 Sparks Tribune
The
massacre at Kent State 5-4-1970
Nevada
State AFL-CIO conventioners join anti-education tax initiative business
coalition
Steve
Sebelius / Las Vegas Review-Journal 5-2-2014
Mayday!
Taxes smolder while citizens
do slow burn
May
Day in Reno, D-Day for teachers' union tax petition
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded & Updated from the
5-1-2014 Sparks Tribune
Revolution,
evolution, devolution & truth dilution
Also:
Labor leader Joe Assalone dies
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the
4-24-2014 Sparks Tribune
Making
the best of an inbred situation
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
4-17-2014 Sparks Tribune
College
athletes need unions, pay
By
Prof. Jake Highton / Expanded
from the 4-17-2014 Sparks Tribune
Marching
for equal rights and equal pay on tax day
Equal Rights Amendment will return to 2015 Nevada Legislature
Banqueters
cry: Hail, César
By
Prof. Jake Highton / Expanded from the 4-10-2014 Sparks Tribune
The
Obamacare Bitcoin online vote exchange
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
4-10-2014 Sparks Tribune
Strike
Chess: LV Culinary and Bartenders unions plan picketing
Las
Vegas Review-Journal / 4-8-2014
In
search of the modern day Barbara Bennett
Barbwire
by Barbano / Substantially expanded from the
4-3-2014 Sparks Tribune
Site
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Confidential
Assemblymember
Lucy Flores, Chávez
alumna Maria Zamora &
Sen. Joe Neal headline César
Chávez Day
2014
NEW!
1960s Northern
Nevada Chávez work disclosed
César
Chávez
Celebration XII
Monday
31 March 2014
Doors
open at 5:30 p.m., dinner at 7:00 p.m.
Celebración
de
César Chávez XII
Lunes 31 de Marzo 2014
Las puertas se abren a las 5:30 p.m., la cena a las 7:00 p.m.
Circus
Circus—Reno
Bob
McGowan, Miss America and César Chávez
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
3-27-2014 Sparks Tribune
When
César
Chávez came
to Reno
|
Obama
pays tribute to late Reno labor leader
|
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THE
WAY WE WERE — The above is a recently discovered
photo from July 15, 1986. Left to right are Kathy Brown,
Culinary Union Local 86 office manager; Miguel Contreras,
Local 86 Secretary-Treasurer; Local 86 President Bill Uehlein;
a lady named Natalie (anyone who knows her last name, please
write), and César Chávez. This item was
first published in Ahora, northern Nevada's Spanish-English
weekly, on March 26, 2008. (On 3-19-2009, President Obama paid
tribute to Brother Contreras as he spoke in the L.A. building
named after the late labor leader. See the 1986 Chávez
Reno archive, below.)
(Photo
courtesy of Dan Rusnak, retired business manager of Laborers'
Union Local 169.)
More stories and photos
from César Chávez's 1986 Reno visit
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ahead of corporate-influenced news—>Subscribe to Barbwire Confidential
Hiding
in Plain Sight
—>
The Barbwire Education Scandals go mainstream 2 years
later
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 3-27-2014
We
Don't Need No Education Archives
2014
Nevada Press Association Award Winner
We Don't Need No Education XXXVIII—>
The politics of media ga-ga
boosterism
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the
3-20-2014 Sparks Tribune
We
Don't Need No Education XXXVII
Follytix
'14: If you don't laugh, you'll cry
BREAKING
NEWS: State illegally uses tax money vs. teacher tax vote
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3-13-2014 Sparks Tribune
BETTER
LATE THAN NEVER: Largest Nevada newspaper confirms
Barbwire investigative series about Clark and Washoe County school districts'
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Campaign
2014: An expensive comedy act
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by Barbano / Expanded from the
3-6-2014 Sparks Tribune
WE
LOVE LUCY! As political junkies and others of questionable
character (which describes most of my fans) learned before the rest of
the great unwashed in the Barbwire
of Feb. 20, Assemblymember Lucy Flores, D-Las Vegas, will
declare her candidacy for Nevada lieutenant governor at 2:00 p.m. PST
Saturday, March 1, at the College of Southern Nevada Cheyenne Campus.
Does the date imply Lucy is coming in like a lion? Well, she is
woman, hear her roar. She will address Washoe Democrats on Tuesday evening,
March 4, at DemoHQ, 1465 Terminal Way in Reno. Be well. Raise hell. Esté
bien. Haga infierno.
Shirl
Elliker: Nevada loses an honorable man
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2-27-2014 Sparks Tribune
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Assemblymember Lucy Flores, D-Las Vegas, will declare for lieutenant
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