FYI … Harrah’s Entertainment Names October Women’s Leadership Month Public Education Foundation Honors Harrah’s Executive Jan Jones Harrah’s Entertainment will host a Women’s Leadership Forum 2008: 4:30 p.m. Thursday, October 30, 2008 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. Featured speakers will include Marilyn Winn, president of Bally’s, Paris and Rio, and…
The deadline to register to vote in Nevada is Saturday, Oct. 4. That’s tomorrow! After that, the only option you have is to get in your car/on the bus/ride your bike/walk over to the Clark County Elections Department (or elections department in your county if you’re outside SoNV) and register to vote IN PERSON. You…
The National Association of Secretaries of State has chosen local hero Ruby Duncan for the National Margaret Chase Smith Award for Political Courage. Previous winners include Rosa Parks and Jimmy Carter. This year, finalists included Nobel prize-winner Al Gore. Congratulations Ruby! Ruby is one of my favorite community leaders. She’s living proof that you can…
PLAN’s Environmental Organizer Cinthia Zermeno just started a 1Sky Nevada blog. It’s a great way to find out about 1Sky, which is a nationwide campaign to enourage elected officials to pass legislation to end greenhouse gases, create green jobs and stop coal-fired power plants. And you can sign the 1Sky Pledge!
Sorry, my chickadees, I’ve been MIA and slow to approve comments (although may I just say there’s been some really good ones lately). I went to San Francisco for a conference and came back to do an awesome phone bank today. (We called folks to remind them about early voting for the primary — it started yesterday…
So I admit I’m a bit behind the feed ’cause I just got to read Steve Sebelius’ CityLife cover story from last week: We’re not a real city. After years of working with Steve, it’s not exactly news to me what his feelings are on the value of Vegas. He makes no bones about the fact…
There is so much going on lately that I just don’t have time to get to it all. But I wanted to at least mention these things in passing, before they become totally irrelevant. What’s that? You say you miss reading snarky bits about the governor’s alleged numerous adulterous flings while he’s going through his…
I like to think that regular Siren readers are a lot like me — fired up, progressive, awesome people. Now that I’m at PLAN (the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada), I get to work with some very awesome, passionate, progressive, fired-up people every day. But we can’t do it alone. With the Sin City Siren…
So I’m on the last day of a conference in Portland in my old home state of Oregon. I try not to miss Oregon since I am now a Nevadan, but sometimes it feels like coming here is like sending an alcoholic to a bar. There are so many things about Portland that I think…
On Friday I helped register new citizens to vote following the new citizenship ceremonies at the Federal Building. It was so awesome! Sometimes the people, holding little American flags, came right up to us as soon as they got out of the ceremony because they were ready to get registered! It was amazing and sort of…
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