Are you ready for the next Sin City Siren Book Club? We’re meeting in a little over a week, on Jan. 22! In my last post I asked for suggestions on a good place to meet. (I am open to locations as long as they are non-smoking venues. wifi would be nice but is not…
I’m not doing a year-in-review this year. And it’s not because nothing interesting happened. Indeed, I’d say 2010 was a pretty full year: health care reform, Prop 8 overturned, Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, natural disasters (including devastating earthquakes in Haiti and Chile as well as the Icelandic volcano), the BP oil spill, Team Coco,…
I don’t want to sound like a broken record but when I saw this Las Vegas Sun story by J. Patrick Coolican, I just couldn’t sit on my hands. As many of us prepare to enjoy holiday fun with our loved ones, it can be easy to forget about the many families right here in…
Here’s some news we should be getting used to — unfortunately — as Nevadans: We suck. Yet again we find ourselves at or near the bottom of an important life-index list. This time it comes from the Health Care Report Card by the National Women’s Law Center, which analyzed the health care conditions for women…
From NOW: ACTION NEEDED: Contact your Senate and House members to urge them to pass the International Violence Against Women Act (IVAWA) (S. 2982/H.R. 4594). The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is set to consider this bipartisan bill, but very few days remain in the lame duck session. Adoption in this Congress of IVAWA would be…
At a time of year when most of us are thinking about spending time with family and being home for the holidays, there are many in our community who will be homeless or living in shelters. In the spirit of Mindful Giving, I would like to humbly suggest that those of us who live with…
Today, Dec. 1, is World AIDS Day. An estimated 1.1 million Americans are living with HIV and don’t even know it. Today is a great time to raise awareness, get tested and do what you can to help the millions of people all over the world living with and/or affected by this epidemic disease. You…
There is a grassroots campaign to wear purple on Wednesday, Oct. 20, to take a stand against bullying. (I’m slightly bothered that purple is the color of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, which is October, but I’ll get over it.) This will be a good opportunity to not only visibly show youth that we stand with…
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