Every day I drive through a time loop called East Fremont Street. I want to be clear that this is not the newly branded Fremont East, denoted with fancy monument signs and the fire of ex-Burning Man sculptures. This is the Fremont that time forgot – a dozen or so blocks that take a hard…
Happy Women’s History Month! If you haven’t seen it, yet, there’s still time to pick up the latest copy of Vegas Seven, in which I have three stories that celebrate badass local feminists! Its the unofficial Women’s History Month issue, by yours truly! First, check out my profile of Cristina Hernandez, the director of the…
As the news of the Flint Water Crisis unfolds, I can’t help thinking about when Kanye West looked into the camera during a Hurricane Katrina telethon 11 years ago and said, “President Bush doesn’t care about black people.” Except, when I see the news about Flint, Michigan and their water poisoned with lead by those…
Originally posted on Desert Beacon:
When the Department of Health and Human Services ran the numbers for TANF recipients in a comprehensive FY 2010 study it reported 10,269 “active case” families in Nevada. [DHHS pdf] 20% of those were single individuals, 35.4% were two member households, 23.7% were in three member households, 12.6% were in…
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…
Last week the House voted 217-210 to cut $40 billion over the next decade from the nation’s food stamp program. Considering that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) cost $78 billion last year, that’s a pretty substantial cut to the nation’s largest social safety net for the hungry. It’s a stunningly calculated move by the…
Nevada got some ink in the New York Times over the weekend we’d all probably rather it didn’t. In a story spotlighting the once-suicidal David Theisen — one of an estimated 1,500 people who were bused out of the state rather than getting the much-needed mental health care treatment they needed — the newspaper of…
Originally posted on Desert Beacon:
According to the USDA, as of June 2013 there were 362,203 persons in Nevada receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance (food stamps). That would be 362,203 out of a total state population of 2,758,931. The population of the state increased by about 2.2% from April 2010 to April 2012. So, the 13.1%…
September is Hunger Action Month and awareness campaigns have been launched nationwide to raise the profile on the serious issue of not just hunger in America, but childhood hunger. Today, our local food bank Three Square is calling on folks to Go Orange to raise awareness about this pressing issue. They are encouraging folks to…
Today might be a good day to brown-bag it. As part of a nationwide strike, fast food workers in Las Vegas plan to walk out as part of a demand for fair wages. The local strike is in conjunction with actions in 50 cities all over the country, including San Diego and Los Angeles. And…
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