There’s something that’s been bothering me about the whole Harry Reid/Lucy Flores/LG race theatrics. Why the melodrama about backing Assemblywoman Flores in the first place? Who else could Democrats muster as a winning candidate to top the ticket in 2014? (Without a presidential race or even a compelling bid against the incumbent Gov. Brian Sandoval,…
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Remember back in 2010 when Nevada’s resident RWNJ Sharron Angle told us she equated her campaign against Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) as a calling from God? [LVSun] Her comments were accurately labeled “Reconstructionism.” “In this regard, Angle’s view of religion’s role in government parallels that of a religious political movement…
Yesterday progressives held an event to launch an initiative to fix Nevada’s failing education system. At this point being dead last on nearly every single educational ranking system should be reason enough to get real about Nevada’s worst kept secret. But just for kicks, let me give you an overflowing fistful more: Jobs (aka diversifying…
Our friends at ProgressNow Nevada are part of a new initiative to raise the bar on education in Nevada. We can only go up from DEAD LAST — amirite? The press conference later today will be live-streaming, so check it out if you can’t swing by. Here’s the release: For Immediate Release: March 4, 2014…
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As the controversy continues in some quarters over the decision by Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval and Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto to haul down the now tattered “No Same Sex Marriage” banner, and let the Sevcik v. Sandoval case drop quietly, most of the arguments that can be made in…
The big news at the start of the week was about how the national abortion rate is the lowest it has been since the Roe v Wade decision in 1973. The new low rate comes after a 13 percent drop in the abortion rate between 2008 and 2011. Anti-choice activists have trumpeted the news as…
We’re not even a month into 2014 and it already feels like déjà vu all over again. Within a week’s time we’ve seen a veritable greatest hits of GOP base-stirring plays: the resurrection of the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act in Congress (because that was so much fun in 2011); a bitter firestorm set…
While it was no surprise, the news this week that Las Vegas CityLife is ending still touched a deep nerve in our community. The self-described “gritty” alternative weekly newspaper was always a bit of an underdog in its 21-year run, especially in a city that celebrates glitter over substance and g-strings over bootstraps. I have…
I guess by now it should come as no surprise that Nevada ranks dead last in education. We’ve been at the bottom of the Education Week Quality Counts report since 2010 and not much better before that. That’s the Battle Born State: The nation’s toxic waste dumping ground With one of the nation’s highest suicide…
The alternate headline for this post was, “Environmentalism: The long-view on dismantling oppression.” When I first launched The Sin City Siren seven years ago, one of the issues I wrote about often was environmentalism. After a while I got tired of defending the importance of talking about environmental concerns on a feminist site: Why do…
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