Please join The Nevada Women’s Lobby and other progressive organizations for the following watch parties on Monday. And please show your support for NWL by wearing teal or green. There’s a badge you can download, too. (Full disclosure: I’m on the NWL Advisory and Legislative committees.) Here’s the info: Alert Several organization are gathering to watch the…
I’m not doing a year-in-review this year. And it’s not because nothing interesting happened. Indeed, I’d say 2010 was a pretty full year: health care reform, Prop 8 overturned, Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, natural disasters (including devastating earthquakes in Haiti and Chile as well as the Icelandic volcano), the BP oil spill, Team Coco,…
I don’t want to sound like a broken record but when I saw this Las Vegas Sun story by J. Patrick Coolican, I just couldn’t sit on my hands. As many of us prepare to enjoy holiday fun with our loved ones, it can be easy to forget about the many families right here in…
Here’s some news we should be getting used to — unfortunately — as Nevadans: We suck. Yet again we find ourselves at or near the bottom of an important life-index list. This time it comes from the Health Care Report Card by the National Women’s Law Center, which analyzed the health care conditions for women…
Here’s a memo to The Senate: Equal pay means a stronger economy. Unfortunately, The Paycheck Fairness Act died by a 58-41 (1 abstaining) cloture vote today in the Senate. For Nevadans, we can thank recently re-elected Sen. Harry Reid for voting for this bill, which would have helped “provide more effective remedies to victims” of…
Folks, if you haven’t heard, early voting has started in Nevada (and lasts through Oct. 29 — look up a convenient polling place here!). People, the whole nation is watching Nevada on this one. Let’s not pull a Florida 2000, okay? No matter what you’re political persuasion, let’s get out there and vote! No embarrassing…
How is it possible that the two states in which I’ve lived the longest — Nevada and Alaska — also boast some of the nuttiest female politicians? Now they’re teaming up! That’s right, senatorial candidate Sharron Angle and former Alaska governor Sarah Palin are buddies! Or, at least, Palin is ready to stump for Angle,…
Today is Equal Pay Day. It represents how far into 2010 women have to work to make the same salary as men in 2009. This year it’s 100 days into the year. It’s more than a third of the way through the year and women are just now catching up to men in the last…
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