ERA ALERT! Nevada Women’s Lobby “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.” Nevada: AJR3 – Ratifies proposed constitutional amendment relative to equal rights for men and women. The Equal Rights Amendment is back and Nevada can be one of three…
Wanted to share this with the group: Las Vegas-On Thursday, March 26, 2009 from 6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m., Nevada’s Students of Higher Education will be rallying at UNLV’s academic mall (in front of Beam Hall) in order to highlight student-centered research and education. There will be eight students speaking. Four of the eight students…
This post is brought to you by my best friend Joshua Todd: Rick Warren devotee, 1950’s marriage counselor, and anti-feminist Martha Peace has some words of wisdom for all you gals out there. Don’t know about Martha Peace yet…well check out MotherJones.com. Among many suggestions — like praying for your husband because he must live…
Things I don’t want to completely ignore: The Nevada Women’s Lobby (of which I am a steering committee member) has been working to support ACR5, a bill calling for an interim study on the state of incarcerated women in Nevada. President Obama has started the process to overturn Bush’s misogynistic plot to devalue women’s health…
Vote in this KVBC poll and let them know it’s time to bury the idea of Yucca Mtn. as a nuke waste dump. Here’s the poll.
Have you seen the news? Poor kids in school districts across the country are getting the cold cheese sandwich treatment. I think I just died inside a little. The problem is that in the recession, too many of those who qualify for a reduced-cost lunch (as opposed to a fully subsidized free lunch) can’t pay…
Nevada NOW’s garage sale is Saturday, Feb. 21. The proceeds will help the organization send NOW members to Carson City for Grassroots Lobby Days next month! Garage sale: Saturday at 8 a.m. at 7916 Martingale Lane, LV, NV 89123 To donate, send an e-mail to members@nevadanow.org. Check out the sale and donate items to the…
Forbes has named Las Vegas the most vacant city in America. (Cue: Obvious double-entendre here.) Most vacant apartments, homes and commercial buildings. Was that a tuft of tumbleweeds that just wafted by on the empty streets of Sin City? Hmmm … Isn’t this the way that cities like Detroit start their downward spiral? That’s it,…
The final in my trilogy of outrage is the whole President Obama and Vegas thing. In a town hall meeting in Indiana last week the president made a comment that companies that are getting bailed out by the taxpayers should not be taking trips to Las Vegas. Then all hell broke loose! On the one…
The Sin City Siren 