Please enjoy a guest post by Julianna Ormsby, lobbyist for the Nevada Women’s Lobby. (Full disclosure: I’m on the women’s lobby’s steering committee.) Left behind in ’09 No, not “Left Behind”, the apocalyptic series of doom starring Mike Seaver. This entry, unfortunately, refers to those people who stand to be left behind in the coming…
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I am so sad to find about about this. Local feminist activist Evelyn Flores and two members of her family were attacked and robbed. Her mother and brother were severely beaten. In my years as a reporter in Las Vegas I had many opportunities to interview and talk with Evelyn. She is a bright, activist…
Here we are again at Earth Day (officially April 22). And I can’t help thinking — What a difference Al Gore has made. That little Oscar-winning movie, An Inconvenient Truth, and a little thing called a Nobel prize add a surprising amount of clout. I seem to recall that sometime in the middle of the…
Passing this on from Nevada NOW … You are needed! Tax Day, Tuesday April 15th -To send a message! Together we can tell George Bush! INVEST IN AMERICA NOT IN WAR! BRING YOUR SIGNS AND VOICES! ON TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 2008 SUNSET POST OFFICE, 1001 E. SUNSET RD., LAS VEGAS, 89199 ARRIVE AT 5:45 PM…
Do you like doing things for a good cause? Have you ever done a 5K? If you’re like me you answered yes to the first question and no to the second. Well, I’m in the process of changing both my answers to yes. I’m training for my first 5K. I decided to share, in order…
So I wanted to share the responses I’ve gotten so far to the e-mails I sent back as part of The Sin City Siren’s campaign to get Republic Services and retailers to recycle used CFLs (compact fluorescent lightbulbs). Below are the responses so far … — E
It should come as no surprise to regular Siren readers that I’m a CFL convert. I am an unapologetic environmentalist and like spreading the word on simple tips and ways to live a more eco-friendly life (check out the Eco Stuff section) while still feeling comfortable and not appearing to be a raging hippie (sorry…
According to the CDC, one in four teen American girls has an STI (that’s sexually transmitted infection to those my age and older who didn’t know what that meant). Guess teen boys didn’t merit studying because their immune to STIs. But you know who’s to blame for the skyrocketing rates? The federal government’s $1.5 billion…
The Reuters survey says: Most Americans don’t read political blogs. That’s okay, no personal offense. The jury’s still out on whether Sin City Siren is or isn’t a political blog. Interestingly, more older people than younger people read political blogs, according to the Harris Interactive poll. But still, even of those 63 and over –…
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