The longtime Daily Sparks Tribune columnist reviews public affairs with newsmakers, experts and average Nevadans.

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SUING FOR SCHOOLS: The case for making Nevada finally obey her constitutional mandate to provide for public education
Can we do any worse with a judge running the system?
Interview with Sen. Harry Reid also scheduled.

The Dean's List    "The Dean of Reno Bloggers could very well be Andrew Barbano, self-described 'fighter of public demons,' who started putting his 'Barbwire' columns online in 1996 and now runs 10 sites."             RENO NEWS & REVIEW, 11-9-2006 BARBWIRE BY BARBANO FIRST PLACE, BEST LOCAL COLUMN, IN 2008, 2009 AND 2010 NEVADA PRESS ASSN. COMPETITION. In 2011, we go for the sombrero. Olé!

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NEW Barbwire.TV
This Valentine's Day, after a brief 15-year hiatus, the Barbwire returns to telecast with webcast simulcast. Tune in, turn on and tell a friend.
Barbwire / Daily Sparks Tribune / 2-10-2008

 

The campaign to save public, educational and governmental access television in Nevada Independent news for cable, satellite and telecom consumers

Reno-Sparks-Washoe Charter cable 16/216/80-295HD

Perhaps the first marriage of talk radio, talk TV and webcast webchat

The Barbwire vs. The Moonhowler
Live on KUNR 88.7-fm in northern Nevada/eastern Calif.
9:00 a.m. PST, 17:00 GMT/SUT/CUT
Friday, Dec. 28, 2007
Join us for tea and acrimony

Andrew Barbano, editor of NevadaLabor.com vs. Chuck Muth, protege of Grover "drown government in a bathtub" Norquist. Moderated, if possible, by KUNR News Director Brian Bahouth. Mr. Muth recently left the Republican Party because it's not conservative enough for him. My heart bleeds. So I'll bring wolf bane and holy water.

Be well. Raise hell.

A LITTLE POLITICAL CSI ON KTVN TV-2 AFTER THE NEVADA GUBERNATORIAL DEBATE OF OCT. 17, 2006.
Oct. 18, 2006

RECURRING DAMAGE ON NEVADA NEWSMAKERS, 19th season.
Statewide TV, radio and webcasts.

Barbano on Reno KNPB TV-5's PBS postmortem political programs

Saturday, Sept. 18, 2004 at 5:30 p.m.
November analysis and Alka Seltzer
11-7-2004

CLINGING TO THE LEDGE — Beginning in February, 2003, Mr. Barbano resumed his decade-plus tenure as a contributor to Sam Shad's statewide Nevada Newsmakers television program. Watch this site and the Barbwire column for guest lists and TV/radio/web re-run times.	Barbwire by Barbano The Hellraising statewide column
Nevada Writers & Authors Showcase — Nominations for listings warmly welcomed	Rail City Profile — The Daily Sparks Tribune brings you more than you ever needed to know about its Barbwire man.

 

The Dean's List    "The Dean of Reno Bloggers could very well be Andrew Barbano, self-described 'fighter of public demons,' who started putting his 'Barbwire' columns online in 1996 and now runs 10 sites."             RENO NEWS & REVIEW, 11-9-2006 BARBWIRE BY BARBANO FIRST PLACE, BEST LOCAL COLUMN, IN 2008, 2009 AND 2010 NEVADA PRESS ASSN. COMPETITION. In 2011, we go for the sombrero. Olé!

Deciding Factors will return to the airwaves with a new season. Watch this site, the Daily Sparks Tribune and the Big Nickel for a new and expanded schedule. Send in your suggestions for future guests and topics. Guidelines below.

Additional stations and airdates will be announced at this website and in
Barbwire by Barbano in the Sunday Sparks Tribune.

Please send any questions you would like addressed. Letters, suggestions, comments and criticisms will be posted at this website. We also want your ideas for future programming. Here are a few guidelines.      1. THINK BIG. Suggest new ways to present big issues which affect a lot of people. Fresh approaches on gun control, abortion or nuclear waste are pretty hard to come by, thus diminishing the chances of a program on those emotional pushbuttons.      2. LOOK UNDER ROCKS. The High Desert Outback of the American Dream is rich in potential stories which the mainstream media ignore until disaster strikes.      3. BRING THE CHILDREN. As the project progresses, we hope to do a special show produced by young people on issues important to them. So start putting vid kids into contact with us.      Remember, small minds discuss people. Average minds discuss events. Great minds discuss ideas.      We constantly and consistently aspire, conspire and perspire toward that third level of discourse and debate.                      Be well. Raise hell.                      Andrew Barbano

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