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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | Andrew Barbano |
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Reno, Nevada , United States |
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| Info | Andrew Barbano is a 34-year Nevadan who moved to Reno from Las Vegas many moons ago. His longtime column, Barbwire by Barbano, has won first and second place awards from the Nevada Press Association and was entered in the 1997 Pulitzer Prize competition by his home newspaper, the Daily Sparks Tribune. The Barbwire has appeared in the Sunday Tribune since 1988, occasionally in almost all Nevada newspapers, and on the Internet since Nevada Day, 1996. Barbano's writing and photography have been published in regional and national magazines.
On April 23, 2002, he was honored with the 2001 Columnist of the Year Award at the Annual Awards Banquet of the Reno Media Press Club at Reno's Eldorado Hotel. The previous winner was the late Rollan Melton of the Reno Gazette-Journal. Barbano has more than 30 years of experience in all forms of mass communication. He has been honored on several occasions with awards for excellence in print, radio and television advertising.
Most recently, his multi-media road construction zone safety campaign, The Flagger Moms of Orange Cone Hell, won a 2001 first-place award in a nationwide competition sponsored by the National Safety Council and the American Road & Transportation Builders Association.
Barbano's television series Deciding Factors began airing in January 2002. He has hosted news and public affairs radio and television programs in Sacramento/San Francisco, Reno and Carson City. He produced, syndicated and co-anchored the worldwide Long Beach GrandPrix Formula One Radio Network in English and Spanish from 1976 through 1978. His company also filmed the SCCA/Citicorp CanAm (Canadian-American) motoracing series for TV syndication. His sports marketing background additionally includes major league baseball, professional motorsports teams, collegiate and Olympic wrestling and automotive/RV shows.
In 1991, the Reno City Council appointed him to the founding board of Sierra Nevada Community Access Television (SNCAT). In September, 2002, Mr. Barbano persuaded the Reno City Council to form a cable television consumer advisory board. On Nov. 19, the council named him to a three-year term on the panel. On Dec. 11, 2002, his fellow appointees elected him chairman.
He has long been active in Nevada progressive and consumer causes as well as an advocate for the rights of the mentally disabled. In 1980, he managed a statewide initiative petition which caused the 1981 Nevada State Legislature to establish the state's first office of consumer advocacy, legislation 20 years in the making. Over the past two decades, that entity has saved millions of dollars for large and small utility ratepayers.Concurrent with lobbying the enabling legislation, Mr. Barbano managed consumer intervention against Sierra Pacific Power, Nevada Power and C.P. National Corp. in rate cases and other proceedings before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Nevada utility regulators, state and local governments.
He has been a member of California and Nevada culinary union locals as both a worker and organizer. He is currently a member of statewide Communications Workers of America Local 9413 and served as the union's legislative chair during the 2001 Nevada legislative session. He manages advertising, news, public relations and websites for a wide range of Nevada worker and public interest organizations. He is the editor and publisher of NevadaLabor.com, the Silver State's first and only comprehensive workplace website.
In 1998, Mr. Barbano served as gubernatorial campaign manager for State Sen. Joe Neal, D-North Las Vegas. In 1999, he started Casinos Out of Politics (COP). He worked on Sen. Neal's successful 2000 re-election campaign and his concurrent statewide casino tax initiative. In September, 2002, Sen. Neal, the state's first African-American state senator, again made Nevada history by winning the Democratic primary and becoming the first African-American to advance to a general election as his party's gubernatorial nominee. Sen. Neal was defeated by incumbent Republican Kenny Guinn in the general election and returned to the state senate as its senior Democrat in the 2003 session.
In 1984, Mr. Barbano was the Democratic nominee for the statewide second congressional district seat. He currently serves on the political action committee of the NAACP Reno-Sparks Branch. From 1971 to 1981, he served on the executive board of the Northern Nevada Multiple Sclerosis Society, during which time it became the highest per capita fund raiser of any chapter in the country.
Andrew Barbano was a California Scholarship Federation honors student all four years in high school. He graduated from Fresno State with a degree in business administration in 1968, moving to Las Vegas shortly thereafter to work through the summer. That endless summer continues...
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