In what may be the first of many big decisions announced this week, the Supreme Court rejected Arizona’s (racist) voter ID law. Hopefully, this will set a precedent for all the voter ID laws that have been passed around the country. More than half of all states have some form of voter identification requirement. So,…
[Applications must be received no later than June 21, 2013!] The Sin City Siren is looking for an intern(s) (or highly motivated volunteers)! If you want to learn about journalism, online media and communication, with a dash of grassroots organizing and media relations, The Sin City Siren internship is for you! About SCS: The six-year-old…
*Trigger Warning: Sexual assault* What fresh hell is this? A court marshall in the Clark County courts (aka Las Vegas) is seen violating a woman’s civil rights after she accuses him of an improper body search and sexual assault. The judge presiding over the court TURNS HER BACK and plays with the victim’s two year-old…
Originally posted on Desert Beacon:
We’re all happy to see housing prices increase in Nevada, especially in the hard hit Las Vegas metropolitan area. Before putting on the party hats and dancing to the old ’45s there’s a reason for the increase which might initiate a few nagging doubts in the back of the cranium. …
I’ll be back soon with fresh SCS, but while I’m on a mini-vacay, please enjoy this vintage Sin City Siren post from May 21, 2007 (aka the first month of The Siren!): Why is there grass at the gas station? I was waiting at a red light today when I noticed that on the corner a…
Without a doubt, the 77th regular session of the Nevada Legislature will be one for the history books. This session started with the unusual and slightly disturbing situation of Assemblyman Steven Brooks expulsion — a dubious first in Nevada history — after he threatened violence and demonstrated mental instability. (He would go on to be…
Doesn’t Sherman Frederick know it’s Mother’s Day? Here I am trying to enjoy a rare day off with my family and I have to deal with this piece-of-shit op-ed by the former Review Journal publisher, who was demoted three years ago following his very public “leadership” of the newspaper to endorse Sharron Angle (remember her?)…
On this day in history six years ago I wrote the very first post on The Sin City Siren. Six years. Six Years! I’ve been staring at the computer screen for a good 10 minutes trying to figure out just how to elucidate what The Sin City Siren has meant to me. How much it…
Passing this along. You gonna be there? If it’s anything like the one I was at in 2006, I can’t miss it.
Even though I’m still recovering from a sinus infection that started the day after the NOH8 in Las Vegas hate crimes event (going on two weeks, bleh), I just hate to let another SCS anniversary drift by like some sad tumbleweed caught in a desert windstorm. Then I looked up the traditional anniversary gift for…
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