"No matter how cynical you become, it's hard to keep up." — Lily Tomlin

Sunrise or sunset in Reno, Nevada? Ratepayers and taxpayers are never sure.

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Support the return of non-corporate community TV and radio in Reno-Sparks-Washoe, Nevada and beyond

Who owns Nevada's PBS TV 5-and-10-cent store?
Who shot JR? Ralston show axed without notice.
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the Tuesday 6-28-2016 Sparks Tribune

Nevada utilities continually consume consumers
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 5-31-2016 Sparks Tribune

The cities of Reno and Sparks play buzzard over the bones of SNCAT
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 8-29-2010 Daily Sparks Tribune

César Chávez, Thurgood Marshall & Thomas Jefferson
Submit your nominations for the César Chávez Silver State Public Service Awards
Enter your video (for cash and/or prizes) in the public service announcement competition
Event will benefit Sierra Nevada Community Access Television
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 3-21-2010 Daily Sparks Tribune

Barbwire live TV specials Suing for Schools If Health Care Reform Fails Reno-Sparks-Washoe-Carson-Douglas-Tahoe Charter cable Reruns statewide. Check local listings.

What was perhaps the first marriage of talk radio, talk TV & webcast webchat

Michigan keeps PEG stations for basic customers where Nevada failed
Barbwire by Barbano / Daily Sparks Tribune / 2-14-2010

Shining light into dark places
Betrayal in the Black Tower blacks out citizens
Support non-corporate community media
Barbwire br Barbano / Daily Sparks Tribune / 9-27-2009

Barbwire column on the depredations of Charter Communications and the Reno City Council wins 2009 Nevada Press Association first-place award
Barbwire br Barbano / Daily Sparks Tribune / 8-3-2008

Charter Communications hires bankruptcy lawyers
MultiChannel News 2-8-2009

Stalking the perfect storm
Weather warnings of a telecommunications Katrina
Barbwire / Daily Sparks Tribune / 12-21-2008

Charter Communications bankruptcy predicted
Barbwire / Daily Sparks Tribune / 12-14-2008

WRITE REID NOW
CRUNCH TIME TO SAVE COMMUNITY TV
Barbwire / Daily Sparks Tribune / 12-7-2008

Not even 30 pieces of silver
Reno City Council Signs Community TV Death Warrant
Contact Sen. Harry Reid for help
Barbwire / Daily Sparks Tribune / 11-23-2008

Rise of the Machines
So sue us: Charter tells Sen. Reid and City of Reno
Barbwire / Sparks Tribune / 11-16-2008

SPECIAL BULLETIN: U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., will be Sam Shad's guest on the statewide Nevada Newsmakers TV/Radio/Webcast show on Monday, Nov. 17. Cox cable (Clark County/Las Vegas) lobbyist Steve Schorr will sit on Sam's pundit panels on Nov. 18-19. Click here for the complete broadcast schedule.

The devil and the deep blue sea
Charter cable deal and Reno "settlement" offers are all death warrants for community television. Court battle looms closer.
Ratepayers group may sue City of Reno and Charter
Sparks Tribune / 11-11-2008 + Barbwire special web edition, 11-12-2008

Back to work
Reno City Council reviews defective, deflective Charter cable settlement as FCC investigation opens
Barbwire/ Sparks Tribune / 11-9-2008

Analysis of Reno's Charter deal: Caveat Emptor
Barbwire by Barbano
Daily Sparks Tribune 10-26-2008

Reno City Council considers Charter cable settlement

Cleansing the soap opera of Follytix 2008
Judge in the Sludge + More Charter Cable Trudge
New 2008 Michael Moore film rebroacast schedule on Reno TV
Barbwire Daily Sparks Tribune 10-19-2008

Drag queens for change
Nugget makes workers an offer they can't refuse
Charter cable on the financial skids as AT&T enters market
Shoddy Sequoia voting machines play into Karl Rove's hands
Expanded from the 10-12-2008 Daily Sparks Tribune

The good, the bad and the ugly
Illegal voting machines and killer vaccines
Michigan judge's ruling will affect Nevada cable ratepayers
Expanded from the 10-5-2008 Daily Sparks Tribune

Paul Newman: Driven Star
New Michael Moore film premieres on SNCAT this week
Slow progress on saving community radio-TV stations
Expanded from the 9-28-2008 Daily Sparks Tribune

Charter negotiates Russian-style:
Will accept 100% of everything
Daily Sparks Tribune 9-5-2008 / Barbwire Update 9-7-2008

Reno-Sparks NAACP opposes Charter channel switch

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., ready to join legal action against Charter Cable

Charter cable attempts to kill community TV

Fight Back! WE WIN ROUND ONE — As the Barbwire show scooped the state on Friday, Aug. 22: Charter has caved in and postponed the execution date for 90 days. Thanks for bringing the heat. See the Barbwire in the Sunday Sparks Tribune for all the inside baseball. Be well. Raise hell. AB

SPARKS, WASHOE, CARSON AND DOUGLAS CABLE CUSTOMERS URGED TO CONTACT LOCAL OFFICIALS
ReSurge.TV may broaden legal action to include ratepayers and program producers outside of Reno
8-25-2008, Updated 8-28-2008

The evil empire eats its appetite
Community television wins a 90-day stay of execution
Barbwire / Sparks Tribune / 8-24-2008

Reno city council votes unanimously to sue Charter to keep community TV accessible
Resurge.TV will also file

Unscripted Ending
The picture gets blurry for public access television.
Governing Magazine, Feb. 2008

How we sank to this sorry state of affairs
Dennis Myers/ Reno News & Review / 8-21-2008

The people were heard on Aug. 14. Call, write or show up at Reno City Hall at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 20

Bandwidth bandidos admit to their greed
Barbwire / Sparks Tribune 8-17-2008

The people vs. Charter's pirate ship
Time to sue the bastards
Barbwire / Sparks Tribune 8-10-2008

Donate to the cable ratepayer legal defense fund

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The following Barbwire column on the depredations of Charter Communications and the Reno City Council was recently honored with a 2009 Nevada Press Association first-place award

Deregulation is never having to say you're sorry
Bad news for cable subscribers, good news for Hug High School
Barbwire / Sparks Tribune 8-3-2008

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 The 2009 first-place Nevada Press Association award winners Tony the Tiger & the flaky NFL Barbwire / 11-30-2008 Deregulation is never having to say you're sorry Barbwire / 8-3-2008 Nevada: A good place to visit, but do you want to live here? Barbwire / 6-15-2008 The 2008 first-place Nevada Press Association award winners The price of a piece/6-17-2007 Boxing Pandora/9-23-2007 The Lady in the Red Dress 10-28-2007

 

Reno-Sparks-Washoe Charter cable channels 16 & 216 2:00-4:00 p.m. PST, 22:00-24:00 ZULU/GMT/CUT/SUT

What may well be the first marriage of talk radio, talk TV and webcast webchat

Charter Communications flirting with stock exchange de-listing
Multichannel News 3-31-2008

NEW Barbwire.TV
After a brief 15-year hiatus, the Barbwire returns to telecast with webcast simulcast. Tune in, turn on and tell a friend.

The Barbwire vs. The Moonhowler
Live on KUNR 88.7-fm in northern Nevada/eastern California
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.

Call-in number (877) 275-5677, toll-free statewide.

Be well. Raise hell.

Deregulation report from the first presidential battleground (12-24-2007) — Here in Iowa, a cable company can now remove itself from control by a local franchise authority and place itself under the state umbrella of regulation of which there are absolutely no consumer protections (one would have to complain to the FCC for relief) and no protection for local governments for misuse of their rights-of-way except by going to court. Only the state legislature can correct their error in not providing legislative safeguards and they, not understanding the problem, are not inclined to do so. The lawsuits here in Iowa over franchise fees are still active and the cities named as defendants seem to be on the losing end so far. However, appeals are sure to be made, so the issue is in limbo for some time. — [Editor's note: Stay tuned for more.]

COMMENTATOR DENNIS MYERS

Local major media (not including minor media like The Barbwire) fail to cover FCC media consolidation vote
Reno News & Review 1-3-2008

Bill Moyers show on FCC media consolidation vote bumped from northern Nevada PBS prime time
Barbwire / Sparks Tribune 12-16-2007

Tech-Talk Technology - Business - Government - Arts - Community - Trends Captain Ahab spears his imaginary whale Vol. 1, Number 17 12-18-2007 "We have an obligation to make sure that local newsgathering is robust. That includes ensuring a balance of independent voices in the local community." — Kevin Martin, FCC Chairman FCC      The statement from Kevin Martin seems odd and contradictory given his headlong charge to hold a vote today (Dec. 18) to ram through a regulation that would partially lift a 35-year-old ban on media consolidation. The remark was made during a Senate committee hearing last week, where senators grilled Martin on his Ahab-like insistence on this vote, while at the same time making no plans to prepare the public for the coming of digital broadcasting in February of 2009. At that time, anyone still using an antenna will no longer be able to get broadcast television without a special converter box that the federal government is providing.      Martin asserts that the ban on media consolidation was made more than three decades ago, before the rise in cable television, satellite and the Internet. The Senate response was “so what.” If the regulation passes today, major media conglomerates across the country will be able to buy up struggling independent stations at the local level, thus putting an end to the democratic tradition of independent voices serving the community FCC Mother Hamsters in Reverse Vol. 1, Number 14 11-28-2007      It was "mother hamsters in reverse" last night at the FCC, as all of the commissioners turned on their chief, Kevin Martin. Lobbying from the cable-comms aside, Martin tried to rig the vote by only using only one statistical report to establish that cable companies owned 70% of the viewing households. By using the arcane 70/70 formula conjured by the FCC at the birth of cable television 25 years ago, Martin would have been able to lead the charge in the name of mothers, baseball and apple pie to make the cable systems safe for families across America.      From a consumer standpoint, a la carte network selection isn't a bad idea. But, this intrusion by the FCC into the private lives of cable subscribers would be something like the camel putting his nose in the door of the tent. By 10 p.m. last night, there was widespread mutiny and Martin was effectively shut down in his putsch to begin wholesale regulation of the cable industry. The commission's decision to postpone discussion for a few months (until sufficient subscriber data are reviewed) has effectively killed this discussion, probably for the duration of this administration. Les Smith, Executive Director, SNCAT (775) 828-1211     " I do not understand where Martin is going. He gave the farm away the past several years and now he has been having twangs of conscience." — From an expert in the field

Cable consumers lose again
The F.C.C. chief's decision to scale back a plan to more tightly regulate cable television was a significant, though not total, victory for the industry.
New York Times 11-28-2007, free registration may be required

Cable is at the threshold of 70 percent market penetration and the FCC can now re-regulate. New York Times editorial says the commission should.
New York Times 11-27-2007, free registration may be required

Tomorrow's news today — High Stakes Clash of the Titans
BARBWIRE: Bandwidth bandidos
Daily Sparks Tribune 7-29-2007
The empires strike back
Daily Sparks Tribune 8-5-2007

BARBWIRE OLIGOPOLY WATCH

The following Barbwire column on the depredations of Charter Communications and the Reno City Council was honored with a 2009 Nevada Press Association first-place award

Deregulation is never having to say you're sorry
Bad news for cable subscribers, good news for Hug High School
Barbwire / Sparks Tribune 8-3-2008

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Deregulation, now before NV Gov. Jim the Dim for signature,
has increased cable rates in Texas
What state did ENRON call home?
BARBWIRE/Daily Sparks Tribune 5-27-2007, UPDATED 5-28, 5-31-2007

Read MoveOn.org's case for petitioning the Federal Communications Commission to prevent the emerging telecom oligopoly from controlling a huge chunk of telecast spectrum. If you agree, sign it and spread the word. Fast. Be well. Raise hell. — AB

Telcopoly trying to block lower cost public systems just as they have in Nevada
MuniWireless.com 5-25-2007

Tales of pigs, perversions and pipelines
Jim Crow cable, corporate spin and legislative power
BARBWIRE/Daily Sparks Tribune 5-20-2007

Just like Reno today — Texas state cable watchdog committee has never met
Austin Chronicle 5-15-2007

Nevada lawmakers vote to deregulate phone and cable companies
Las Vegas Sun/AP 5-11-2007

The latest legislative attempt at consolidation of power
by phone and cable companies
Daily Sparks Tribune 4-1-2007 & 4-8-2007, UPDATED 5-10-2007, 5-20-2007

Will cable law cut cost or convenience?
Consumer groups and local officials warn that the bill, aimed at eliminating locally negotiated franchises in favor of state licensing, would make it harder for disgruntled customers to get problems fixed.
Orlando Sentinel 5-4-2007

Phone Carriers Win a Skirmish in Cable Wars
The F.C.C. approved new rules that will make it easier for telephone companies to offer television service. (New York Times 12-21-2006; free registration may be required.)

Tucson consumers fight to retain public access
Arizona Daily Star Editorial 11-26-2006

Free at last?
Real competition for cable TV finally makes it to Nevada
Reno will be the BETA test for AT&T Competition 1.0

Bill Moyers: An astounding hour on net neutrality
Corporatization of the Internet is now before congress

Incline Village General Improvement District wants cable autonomy
(They need to review how Nevada lawmakers sold out the public long ago)
Washoe County Charter franchise more than two years behind
County spokeswoman Kathy Carter says cable lobbying has weakened county's position

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 The 2009 first-place Nevada Press Association award winners Tony the Tiger & the flaky NFL Barbwire / 11-30-2008 Deregulation is never having to say you're sorry Barbwire / 8-3-2008 Nevada: A good place to visit, but do you want to live here? Barbwire / 6-15-2008 The 2008 first-place Nevada Press Association award winners The price of a piece/6-17-2007 Boxing Pandora/9-23-2007 The Lady in the Red Dress 10-28-2007

Virginia company bringing wireless option to Las Vegas Valley

LOOKY HERE:
Wyoming town miffs private providers with move toward fiber-optic network

Nevada Public Utilities Commission won't join ACLU's privacy invasion feud

Las Vegas Review-Journal letter: A sweetheart land deal for Cox Cable

Las Vegas Review Journal letter: $4 million worth of land for $1
Typical Gomorrah South deal stinks

Steve Sebelius: Cox Cable free land deal is OK by LV standards,
but feeding the homeless remains a crime

Amber Alert flames out in northern Nevada

Charter accused of endangering public safety by failing to activate emergency alert system
Daily Sparks Tribune 7-1-2006

Unannounced service outages nothing new

City of Reno asleep at the switch
Statewide News
Washington Watch

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 such, 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. Apologies for any inconvenience.

Tales from the Dark Side...

     On Feb. 8, 1996, in a ceremony at the Library of Congress, President Clinton signed legislation revamping the telecommunications industry, saying it would "bring the future to our doorstep." [Courtesy of the New York Times e-bulletin.] EDITOR'S NOTE: Mssrs. Clinton, Gore and Gingrich forgot to mention how expensive their monopolistic future would become.

...and the Bright Side

     On February 8, 1928, a television image was sent across the Atlantic for the first time. (To mark the 75th anniversary in 2003, amateur radio operators in England and the U.S. repeated the experiment.) [Courtesy of longtime Nevada journalist Dennis Myers' Poor Denny's Almanac.]

Those Bell Mergers Are Giving Cable Companies Even More to Worry About
New York Times 3-13-2006; free registration may be required

RATEPAYER BULLETIN

Charter Cable Northern Nevada Alert (May 11, 2006, 1:15 a.m. PDT) — Charter's entire digital cable feed has been down in parts of northwest Reno for more than an hour. (The system failed at 12:14 a.m. PDT). Calls to Charter's Vancouver automated complaint system force ratepayers to jump through hoops talking to a computer which finally advises to just wait a few hours. If a customer is dissatified, the caller is placed on hold again until another recorded voice comes on to say that the system is down for maintenance, but to stay on the line if there is something else to discuss. The magic computers says that wait times are more than 15 minutes to talk to a real person, as staff is light at night. (This writer once waited more than three hours, but fortunately had other things to do while placed on ignore by the system.) Charter usually refuses credit to ratepayers for services not received unless the outage lasts more than 24 hours. Pity the poor fool who depends on his high speed cable modem service from this outfit.

This complaint will be sent to the City of Reno's vaunted RenoDirect consumer complaint system, which cost taxpayers a lot of money but does not work. The master of this website is still waiting for any response — even an acknowledgment that a complaint has been received — on a previous problem several months ago. Charter can abuse its customers with impunity because of the hard evidence on the record that as long as it regularly turns over ratepayer franchise fees to the financially mismanaged city's coffers, the city will let the company do, or fail to do, whatever Charter wants. Mayor Cashell and councilmembers Aiazzi, Dortch and Zadra voted in 2004 to give Charter a new 15-year franchise and ignore all consumer protections recommended by the city's now-defunct Citizens Cable Compliance Committee. New councilmember Gustin cooperated with Aiazzi in their unsuccessful joint attempt to kill the citizens committee last year. Mr. Gustin publicly admitted that Charter Communications is a longtime client of his business and stated that an unnamed citizen had asked him to review elimination of the citizen panel for the second time in a year.

AT&T has applied for a franchise to serve parts of northern Nevada, but the Baby Huey Bell's ability to compete with Charter is years away and dependent on substantial new construction of high speed fiberoptic lines. Charter will retain its government-created deregulated monopoly for some time to come, or until it sells the northwestern Nevada system to another pirate ship.

Charter Cable Northern Nevada Alert (April 8, 2006, 2:19 a.m. PDT) — Charter Communications' vaunted video-on-demand service has been down and will remain so until dawn or past, according to Charter's Vancouver Voice-Mail-Hell service center. There is no credit allowable for the outage since "It is a free service. We don't charge you for that." I told the kid on the line (after I finally reached a human), that I'm paying you guys over $100 a month, so don't say you're not charging me for it.

DON'T GET MAD, GET EVEN! FIGHT BACK: JOIN RESURGE.TV, Nevada's new consumer organization MOLLY IVINS: Newspapers commit suicide by not covering stories important to people's lives

      Alas and alack, there is little that a ratepayer can do, especially one who requires C-SPAN and local cable access channels. I can't go to my local franchising authority (the City of Reno), because the city council majority and staff care only about getting their vig — the city's monthly sales commission on my bill. The federal government, which gave cable companies a deregulated monopoly in 1996 (Thank you, President Clinton, VP Gore and Born-Again Speaker Gingrich), has lifted nary a finger. The Nevada Legislature passes whatever preferential law which Cox and Charter cable order. (Gotta protect the vig.)

      Meanwhile, consumers seem content to merely grumble while exercising their democratic right to choose between paper or plastic. The same complacency obtains at the gas pump where prices in the past few days are skyrocketing again toward $3.00 per gallon. The facts about the rigged retail gasoline market have been on the record for years — I've printed them, but no public official or consumer group has had the integrity to take on the issue. It doesn't even take much money in the age of the Internet, but monopoly petrol pricing just isn't sexy enough for prime time. (Read the Molly Ivins article linked at right. -->)

      And so we pay the price of rape and pillage at the pump, at the prescription counter, on the tube and elsewhere as the country tubes itself toward third world status. As I wrote in the New Year's Day Sparks Tribune, the American electorate is a dumb cow which follows the herd, is easily stampeded, gets milked for all she's worth. After she produces offspring for use as fresh meat or muscle to be consumed by the few, she is finally sent to the slaughterhouse herself so that she may give her overlords the last full measure of devotion — meat, blood, brain, sinew, skin, hooves. Hallemoolah.

      And I don't even get to watch the dramatization of the dissection of the dessicated American Dream because my cable is down.

      CSI or not, press on regardless.

      Be well. Raise hell.

      AB

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Secret meetings, illegal schemes: public access endangered
Contact Reno, Sparks and Washoe County officials
BARBWIRE: Daily Sparks Tribune 3-19-2006

Toljaso Dept.: We warned Nevada lawmakers in 2003

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Citizens Cable Compliance Committee Vacancies

Any Reno resident wishing to serve may contact City Clerk Lynnette Jones at (775) 334-2030 for an application, or apply via the city's website.

In mid-December, 2005, the Reno City Council reappointed Chuck Lanham but did not reappoint Andrew Barbano. The panel now has three vacancies on a seven-member board. When it decided on December 1, 2005 (for the second time that year) not to extinguish the CCCC, the council charged the panel to review Charter's non-compliance issues and report back in January. As of this update, no meetings have been scheduled. The ATT franchise, Nevada's first major competition for a cable company, will be heard by the council on August 30. It was negotiated with no public input or committee review. UPDATE 12-21-2006: The committee has now failed to meet for 13 months. A 12-17-2006 Reno Gazette-Journal ad soliciting members for a number of City of Reno advisory boards and commissions failed to mention the CCCC. Corporate grease wins again.

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BARBWIRE: Municipalities must act to force telecoms to uphold federal privacy laws
" City and county regulators should immediately begin to review their local franchise agreements to pressure current and future telecommunications franchisees to uphold the law or face serious sanctions."
Daily Sparks Tribune 5-14-2006

BREAKING NEWS: Cable greed and lawmaker laxity come back to bite Nevada ratepayers in the ass
The Wall Street Journal lists Nevada among state legislatures which passed anti-consumer legislation barring municipalities from providing cable and Internet services. Now, the wi-fi cyberchickens are expensively coming home to rue.
Wall Street Journal/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 3-21-2006
The abovelinked article also appeared in the 3-27-2006 Reno Gazette-Journal business section
TOLJASO DEPT. — Sen. Joe Neal, D-North Las Vegas, Barbara Stone and Andrew Barbano tried to repair the law in 2003, but Cox and Charter had too many people bought. Read it and weep.

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 such, 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. Apologies for any inconvenience.

From "Cable Industry Economics" 3-4-2004 by George Kohl, Assistant to the President and Director of Research Communications Workers of America/AFL-CIO

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     (Disclaimer to assuage the zootsuited censoristas at city hall: In case you haven't already noticed, this website is about as unofficial as respectable disrespectful protest can get. WARNING: The city's website was recently revamped, breaking just about every city document link from both this site and NevadaLabor.com. They make life so easy for cable ratepayers. This unofficial website represents the views of neither the City of Reno nor its Citizens Cable Compliance Committee, which pretty much doesn't exist anymore. Requiescat in inferno.)

Is the paper taking a cue from the city or what? 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 such, 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. Apologies for any inconvenience.

 

 

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