Tuesd






The unmatched and comprehensive online meeting hall for Nevada workers since 1995
"Our republic and its press will rise or fall together." — Joseph Pulitzer
Je Suis Charlie
Site Map

July-December 2025 Front Page Archive
Current Home Page

Andrew Barbano Editor/Publisher
Photo: Debra Reid, Sparks Tribune


Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights.

— Abraham Lincolnm

First annual message to Congress 12-3-1861

Betty J. Barbano
2-7-1941 / 12-27-2005
 Remember her laughter

On January 16, 1959, two babies were born.
They became sisters in both life and death.

Larry Barbano, Frater Mei
12-18-1947 / 10-18-2023

Site Map
Memo to modern short attention spaniels: This front page is chronological, the site map is categorical.
SITE NAVIGATION TIP: When all else fails, read the instructions
(A favorite John Hanks aphorism I've been using for decades)

Front Page Archive July 2024-July 2025

Front Page Archive January-July 2024

Hope you and yours enjoyed Happy High Holly Days
Christmas/Kwanzaa/Solstice/Festivus/Chanukah/Thanksgibleting
Feliz Navidad, próspero año y felicidad
HAPPY NEW YEAR / Feliz Año Nuevo / Felice Anno Nuovo
Frohe Weihnachten und beste Wuensche fuer 2026
Vaxx up, stay safe, pray for Pope Leo, Pope Francis, Ukraine and 160 currently war-torn lands, including ours.

Breaking News & then some—>

CESAR CHAVEZ CELEBRATION XIX—>MARCH 20, 2026 RENO Grand Sierra Resort

 

THE ORANGE CRUSHER'S CITRUS CANCRE METASTASIZES

January 22, 2026

Nevada Press Association Defends Press Freedom After Courtroom Removal of Reporters
NPA condemns removal of journalists who refused to accept unconstitutional reporting conditions.

The Nevada Press Association is deeply troubled by the removal of Las Vegas Review-Journal reporters and a photographer from a Clark County courtroom Wednesday after they declined to accept a judge’s condition restricting what they may report, including reporting an alleged victim’s name.

Judges do not have the constitutional authority to dictate what the press can publish. The First Amendment protects a free press from government censorship and prior restraints, and courts must not impose content-based restrictions on journalists as a condition of access to public proceedings.

We stand with the journalists who were exercising their fundamental rights and will continue to defend press freedom and the public’s right to know.

Additional Statement—> “It is astonishing that Nevada judges continue to deny access to court proceedings and court documents after repeated rulings that find such restrictions blatantly unconstitutional. Such actions will only have the effect of elevating scrutiny on the judiciary for attempting to censor already-published details about a high-profile case.”

— Bob Conrad, Publisher of This Is Reno and President, Nevada Press Association

Media Contact: Brian Allfrey
Executive Director, Nevada Press Association
brian@nevadapress.com
www.nevadapress.com

THIS MEMBER OF MARK TWAIN'S UNION DISRESPECTFULLY CONCURS WITH THE DISSENT! —> Quarantino

AND SO WOULD THIS ONE —>

Time to kick some ass!

Be well. Raise hell. Vaxx up and stay safe.

Andrew Quarantino Barbano
NevadaLabor.com

Hmmm...Does Judge Machine Gun Michele Fiore know about this?

War is peace, right?
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno/ Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 1-21-2026

Is the light breaking through at last?
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno/ Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 1-14-2026

Venezuela is Spanish for Vietnam
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno/ Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 1-7-2026

In Memoriam

Renee Nicole Good, American citizen 1989-2026
Requiescat in pace

Copyright © 2026 Ann Telnaes

The 2025 Barbwire Blue-footed Booby Prizes
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno/ Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 12-31-2025

Three Wise Men: What would Jesus do?
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 12-24-2025

The Storm before the Calm
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 12-17-2025 / In 6 languages

32 protesters arrested outside Northern Nevada Starbucks facility
By Mark Robison / Reno Gazette-Journal 12-15-2025

NevadaLabor.com Starbux archives

The shining city on the hill goes dark
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 12-10-2025

Nevada mining transport workers join Teamsters Local 533
Teamster.org / 12-5-2025

Balm to soothe and warm your cockles
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 12-3-2025

Happy Thanksgibleting, fellow suckers
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 11-26-2025

Selena Warrior Princess vs. the Zoompa Loompas
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 11-19-2025

DANCING IN THE DARK
STRANGE BEDFELLOWS, INDEED—> Nevada special legislative session ends. Huge Hollywood studio subsidy fails in Senate, attempt to rein in Wall Street monopolization of housing also dies; passed by Senate, killed in Democratic-controlled Assembly. Go figger.

—>Evening, 11-19-2025: Big, Beautiful Corporate Welfare bill FAILS. Alleluia!


CLINGING TO THE LEDGE: MONSTERS BALL
RAPE AND PILLAGE IN CARSON CITY—>Nevada lawmakers juiced to pass worst corporate welfare bill since 1872 Mining Law

Everybody knows the dice are loaded.
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed.
   Everybody knows the war is over.
Everybody knows the good guys lost.
   Everybody knows the fight was fixed.
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich.
   That's how it goes. Everybody knows — Leonard Cohen

FIXED FIGHT (11-16-2025) — Assembly Speaker Steven "Zoompa" Yeager allowed 2 Republicans to call it in so as not to interrupt their vacations and perform their duties. That allowed the movie studio fiasco to advance to the senate 22-20. (I wonder of Yeager was a Zorro fan when he was a kid.) Two senators are playing hooky. Is some procedural skulduggery afoot? Sen. Ira Hansen, R-Sparks, told TV4/11 News at noon on 11-17 that the senate has "eleven to twelve votes" leaning "no." That would kill the giveaway. I can only hope. The bill is stuck in the senate. Alleluia!
CONTINUALLY UPDATED BULLETINS—>Stay tuned.

YOU GO GIRL!
Sophomore pol Selena La Rue Hatch reads the rulebook and makes gambling-industrial complex look amateurish. Somewhere, Sen. Joe Neal and Assemblymember Bob Price/IBEW 357 watch and smile.

Barbano to Assembly Speaker: This is Tesla fiasco on steroids


Barbwire Tragic Trilogy
Count Dracula sucks eternal / 11-12-2025
Rail City Rat-trap rent-traps / 11-5-2025
Lady in Red: Raped Again / 10-29-2025

The end continues
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 10-22-2025

When death is nobody's fault
Bullied 12 year-old commits suicide

2012-2024

I warned of danger 13 years ago. Who will answer?
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 10-15-2025

 

UPDATE: WORLDWIDE LEADER? ACT OF GOD OR JUST A GARDEN-VARIETY IMPOSSIBLE DREAMER? ALL OF THE ABOVE? VERY POSSIBLY. Was Andrew Barbano the only advocate for an American pope? Google apparently says YES! At minimum, the Barbwire stumped and broke Google trying to find out.
See for yourself. And please lemme know what you think.

Prayers answered: Pope Leo takes T-Rump head-on
Trashes iL Dittatore’s Signature Policy

Suggests that T-Rump administration isn’t as “pro-life” as president’s supporters seem to think.

Pope Leo Ramps Up His Trump Feud With Order to American Bishops
By Leigh Kimmins / Reuters via The Daily Beast 10-8-2025

The Holy of Holies sprays Lysol on the Den of Iniquity
Pope Leo Urges U.S. Bishops to Support Immigrants
Pope Francis earlier suggested that Trump was “not Christian”
By Elizabeth Dias and Elisabetta Povoledo / The New York Times 10-8-2025

Conservative Clergymachistae: "SANTA MERDA! SANCTUS CACAS! Mama Mia!"

Barbwire Pope Leo XIV Roundup
(Where were you last April?)

Make love, not war / 8-31-2025
Windy City Showdown: Pope Leo vs. the American Mad King/8-27-2025
Pray for deliverance from the dogs of war
ANGELS FOR AMERICA: Leo-14 & Lech Walesa for the good guys/6-18-2025
Confessions of an altar boy / 5-14-2025
Barbwire first in the world to call for an American pope—>
Let it Be: An American Pope Francis2
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 4-23-2025

WORLDWIDE LEADER? ACT OF GOD? JUST A GARDEN-VARIETY IMPOSSIBLE DREAMER?
ALL OF THE ABOVE? VERY POSSIBLY.
Was Andrew Barbano the only advocate for an American pope? Google apparently says YES!
At minimum, the Barbwire stumped and broke Google trying to find out. See for yourself.
And please lemme know what you think.

First We Take Manhattan
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 10-8-2025

Defrocking the dictator
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 10-1-2025

Where are the holy men?
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 9-24-2025

TRANSITIONS

Norman Cardoza, 95, 5th Barbwire nominee inducted into Nevada Press Assn. Hall of Fame

BOXCARS!
Barbwire wins 12th Nevada Press Association award

Hi yo Silver 2025
3-12-2025
4-17-2024
4-3-2024

2024 NPA Barbwire honorees say goodbye

Guy Louis Rocha, 73, dies one year after hall of fame induction
Guy Louis Rocha 'Never knew a stranger'
By Siobhan McAndrew and Jason Hidalgo / Reno Gazette-Journal 9-19-2025

Saturday 9-27-2025 memorial service for Mary Highton-Foxton, 102
Widow of 2024 Barbwire honoree Jake Highton

Requiescant in pace

The seasons, they go round and round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We're captives on the carousel of time
We can't go back, we can only look
Behind from where we came
And go round and round and round in the Circle Game
— Joni Mitchell

Who will answer?
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 9-17-2025

 

 

FRIDAY 9-12-2025 —> STATEWIDE SOLIDARITY ALERT: MAGA moonhowler unelected Nevada System of Higher Education Regents are trying to kill union representation statewide. Hie thee to Nevada Faculty Alliance facilities in Reno, Elko and Las Vegas 9:00 a.m. PDT TODAY! Call (702) 530-4632. Tell them the Barbwire sent you.

1984 in 2025
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 9-10-2025

Cupcakes in CasinoLand
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 9-3-2025

Happy Labor Day!


RENO LABORFEST '25
LABOR DAY/Monday 9-1-2025/Idlewild Park on the Truckee River
Be there or be square!

Labor Day brings protests, picnics across Nevada & the nation
ThisIsReno.com 9-1-2025

Culinary Union Workers' Labor Day Rally celebrates 90 years of fighting and winning for Nevada working families
Labor Day in Las Vegas 2025

Trump Is Wiping Out Unions. Why Are They So Quiet?
By Erik Loomis / The New York Times / Labor Day 9-1-2025
Make love—>not war

Pope Leo demands end to ‘pandemic of arms’
By Michael Sainato / The Guardian/UK 8-31-2025

War in moderation?
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 4-13-2022

"Thou shalt not kill." — God

UPDATE: WORLDWIDE LEADER? ACT OF GOD OR JUST A GARDEN-VARIETY IMPOSSIBLE DREAMER? ALL OF THE ABOVE? VERY POSSIBLY. Was Andrew Barbano the only advocate for an American pope? Google apparently says YES! At minimum, the Barbwire stumped and broke Google trying to find out. See for yourself. And please lemme know what you think.

Pope Leo demands end to ‘pandemic of arms’
By Michael Sainato / The Guardian/UK 8-31-2025

Windy City Showdown: Pope Leo vs. the American Mad King
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 8-27-2025

Lampoons & harpoons for poltroons, dragoons and buffoons
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 8-20-2025

Blame Nevada for T-Rump cancer
37th anniversary Barbwire
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 8-13-2025

The Confederacy has finally won the Civil War
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 8-6-2025 / Updated 8-10-2025 GMT

Nevada Press Assn. Hall of Fame
BREAKING NEWS—> 5 down, 3 to go
7-31-2025 Barbwire Winner
Congratulations to Barbwire nominee & Pulitzer Prize winner Norman Cardoza
Reno Gazette-Journal

Ignore the jesters and you fester
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 7-30-2025

Payback Time: Colbert to PBS
Never gonna happen? Neither was an American pope. See above.
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno
Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 7-23-2025

Guess what? 2-time Pulitzer winner Ann Telnaes went to Reno High School

Her 'toon the Bezos WaPost censored

Left: "Dead Puck" © 2025 Ann Telnaes
(Also a bit of a self-portrait)

Monsters of our own creation
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 7-16-2025

T-RUMP TRAVESTY TRILOGY HAT TRICK TRIPLE PLAY
Lisa Murkowski got publicly porked
And hit us with chops on July the 4th
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 7-9-2025

T-RUMP TRAVESTY TRILOGY PART DEUX
We become what we despise
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 7-2-2025

Top of this July-December 2025 page

Front Page Archive July 2024-July 2025

Front Page Archive January-July 2024

Golden Oldies & Timeless Ticklers

 

As ye sow, so shall ye reap.

"What profiteth it a man if he would gain the whole world but lose his own soul?" — GOD

"So, we have a deal, right?" — Donald Trump

Margaret Dumont and Groucho Marx
Still crazy after all these years.

"Thou shalt not kill." — God

Don't say I didn't warn you as far back as 1992

The naked truth about war

"Thou shalt not kill." — God

Pope Leo demands end to ‘pandemic of arms’
By Michael Sainato / The Guardian/UK 8-31-2025

Make love—>not war

War in moderation?
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 4-13-2022

Political Animal Crackers & Crackups

      "I think it is dangerous to confuse the idea of democracy with elections. Just because you have elections doesn't mean you are a democracy...I'm still taken aback at the extent of indoctrination and propaganda in the United States. It is as if people there are being reared in a sort of altered reality, like broiler chickens or pigs in a pen."

— Indian novelist Arundhati Roy
in the Barbwire of 9-12-2004

Cancelling Arundhati Roy in today's fascist India
By Salil Tripathi / Guardian of London UK 4-21-2024


      The American electorate is a dumb cow that follows the herd, is easily stampeded, gets milked for all she's worth and produces offspring for meat, muscle or cannon fodder to benefit the few. When all used up, she is sent to the slaughterhouse so that she may give her overlords the last full measure of devotion, bones for Jello and hide for belts. No stars and stripes for her grave because she doesn't merit one, having been totally consumed by our consumptive system. — Barbwire 9-12-2010

"If elections mattered, they wouldn't let us do it."
Travus T. Hipp, 1982

Alas and alack, where it all leads (tol'jaso, long time ago)

Get ahead of corporate-influenced news—>Subscribe to Barbwire Confidential
The Underbelly of the News—>TOP SECRET, HUSH HUSH!

a

Current Home Page

The Lady in the Red Dress
The Barbwire's classic Nevada Day column written in 1983
The compleat history of the Silver State in 500 words
SO WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
DAILY SPARKS TRIBUNE 1-3-2011

Je Suis Charlie

30+ years of Barbwire Archives thru today

SITE MAP

SITE NAVIGATION TIP: When all else fails, read the instructions
(A favorite John Hanks aphorism I've been using for decades)

Front Page Archive July 2024-July 2025

Front Page Archive January-July 2024

Top of this page

Get ahead of corporate-influenced news—>Subscribe to Barbwire Confidential
The Underbelly of the News—>TOP SECRET, HUSH HUSH!

All the news you never knew you needed to know—>Subscribe to Barbwire Confidential
The Underbelly of the News—>TOP SECRET, HUSH HUSH!

Navigating the flagship—>Making quick work of NevadaLabor.com

WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS DEPT.—> A year or so back, I got my first criticism in more than two 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 100th installment and long ago earned 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.

—> Andrew the Barbwire Man


Editor's Note: Many of the news links on this site are from Nevada dailies. In late 2006, the Reno Gannett-Journal began nuking much of its archive. If you encounter any broken links, I encourage you to contact them and send me a copy. On the one hand, they want to build their web traffic in order to increase the price of ads. On the other hand, they are killing that very traffic. Far be it from me to reconcile the Dilbert-style motivations of an outfit for which a 38 percent net profit is not enough. If you can explain it, please enlighten me. (Before you e-mail me, please read this bulletin — AB) UPDATE: In early 2008, the Las Vegas Sun "upgraded " its website, nuking more than a dozen years of links. If you find an orphaned Sun story, search their site for the title.

 

 

 

 



NevadaLabor.com Site Directory

Navigating the flagship—>Making quick work of NevadaLabor.com

Front Page Archive July 2024-July 2025

Front Page Archive January-July 2024

Latest Breaking News & Bulletins + Almanac + Archives 1999-present

2023 U-News Front Page Headlines

2022 U-News Front Page Headlines

2021 U-News Front Page Headlines

2000-2021 U-News Front Page Archives

U-News Statewide Archives 1996-2018

In Search Of...

Right to Work for Less | Nevada Labor History | Sparks Centennial
Building Energy  | 100 Years of Union Apprenticeship

DoctorLawyerWatch.com | Barbwire Oilogopoly Archive| BallotBoxing.US

War Rooms: Banks, Cabbies, Cable TV, Cabela's, Cancer Kids/Mining, Consumer Rights/safety, Civil Rights: MississippiWestNV.org, Corporate Welfare, Energy, Health Care, Renters Rights, ReSurge.TV, Starbucks, Wal-Mart

NEW —> WE DON'T NEED NO EDUCATION
The Neverending Series
The Barbwire Molly Ivins Memorial Columniator Hall of Flames

Un-dissing the Dead—>The campaign against forcibly-paid newspaper obituaries

Labor Links | Nevada Writers | About the Editor | Deciding Factors


Get ahead of corporate-influenced news—>Subscribe to Barbwire Confidential
The Underbelly of the News—>TOP SECRET, HUSH HUSH!

MEMORIES OF MEmorial

 


The unmatched and comprehensive online meeting hall
for Nevada workers since 1995



The tale of our gorgeous union-created graphics

In 2002, we were honored to produce the Centennial Book for the 100th anniversary of the founding of northern Nevada Painters and Allied Trades Local 567/AFL-CIO. Working on a short time frame, we cast a nationwide net for appropriate cover art and succeeded beyond our wildest dreams thanks to muralists Kathleen Scarboro and Kathleen Farrell. The above illustration ("Papering the World: Joliet's Wallpaper Industry") appeared on the cover and interior of Local 567's Centennial Book, copies of which have been submitted to Nevada libraries and historical organizations. The mural, painted on a wall in Joliet, Illinois, depicts Painters Union members manufacturing wallpaper the old fashioned way, long about the time of Local 567's founding. Ms. Farrell is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829, an affiliate of the International Union of Painters & Allied Trades/AFL-CIO. Ms. Scarboro is a member of the Maison des Artists in Paris, the association which represents artists in France.

Ms. Farrell executes murals, mosaics and figurative sculptures for the labor movement. Her work and that of others may be viewed at the Friends of Community Public Art web site. "We have added new table top size sculptures for sale as well as additions of our life size sculptures," she says. "A number of the sculptures feature union members including the Baseball Player (The Catch) and The Firefighter. I have also finished the rad workers sculpture I mentioned awhile back. I welcome work from unions that would like to buy the existing sculptures or hire me to create awards, tabletop size sculptures and life size sculptures."

Sister Farrell may be contacted at terri@fcpaonline.org; phone (815) 722-4140; fax (815) 722-9007. You may view more of her work and obtain additional contact information at http://fcpaonline.org/artist.asp?a=farrelka

Rotating at the top of this site as well as in pastel form in the background of this page is a mural produced for the Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers Union/AFL-CIO. The others were acrylics on canvas done for the United Food and Commercial Workers and to memorialize the plight of U.S. chicken processing workers (si podemos). Enjoy.

Be well. Raise hell.

Murals/montages copyright © Kathleen Farrell


Back to the top of this page

Site composed and maintained by Deciding Factors, CWA 9413/AFL-CIO signatory

Comments and suggestions appreciated. Click here and ask for inclusion on our mailing list.
But before you do so, please read this bulletin — AB

Entire contents copyright © 1982-2026 Andrew Barbano

[CWA 9413/AFL-CIO]