Today’s post comes courtesy of Vicki Cowart, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, the region hub including Las Vegas. Legal Birth Control: An Overlooked Milestone Today marks the 48th anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling in Griswold v. Connecticut, which struck down a state law that made the use of birth…
Dear readers, your humble Siren is heading out on a much-needed mini-vacation. Let’s just say this legislative session has me frayed around the edges and a respite is in order. I’ll be out a few days, but while I’m gone, I’ve got some vintage SCS posts — like the one below from July 2012 —…
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…
From our friends at Gender Justice Nevada: The Queer Anti-Violence Project is looking for volunteer Victim Advocates! The training is going to be held June 1 – June 15 Saturdays, 10-3pm, The Center * Monday-Friday, 6-9pm, The Center No class on Sundays The Queer Anti-Violence Project provides Southern Nevada with specific victim/survivor services and anti-violence…
More fall-out from the back-stabbing move by Nevada Senate Majority Leader Mo Denis and a handful of democratic leadership (for now?), who submarined the comprehensive sex ed bill over fears about reelection problems. (By the way, if you are worried that voting on progressive issues will hurt your reelection, you may be in the wrong…
Now that I’ve had some time to let my ragehol work through my system about the “cowardly” death of the comprehensive sex education bill (AB230), I’m starting to get some perspective on the situation. Don’t get your hopes up Sen. Justin Jones, you’re still on my shit-list (I’m one of your constituents, after all). No,…
The comprehensive sex education bill, AB230, has died. It was pulled from the floor late last night after Democratic leadership worried it may hurt Sen. Justin Jones’ reelection chances. This, after women helped get Jones elected, canvassing and phone banking tirelessly to get him the few hundred votes he needed to cross the finish line.…
Oh, another “famous” Las Vegan executes an epic FAIL.
I’ve been a professional journalist for 15 years — nearly 20 if I stretch all the way back to my freshman year of college when I worked as the copy editor for my university newspaper. While I don’t count myself as an old-timer just yet, I know I’ve seen a lot in my time as…
You’d think that Sherman Frederick, disgraced Review Journal publisher extraordinaire, would have learned his lesson last week, after writing that Silver State girls are easy. You know, the op-ed in which he posits that if the Hispanic community has such a problem with teen pregnancy, then it’s just their own damn fault? Those slutty sluts.…
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