President Obama gave us a surprisingly hopeful State of the Union address tonight. I say surprising because he has faced intractable opposition from a GOP determined to undermine his every move. Indeed, both houses of Congress have demonstrated a keen desire to toil less on “prosperity [that] is widely shared,” as the president proffered tonight,…
Today we have a special BONUS Creature Feature! The Zomney apocalypse presented by Joss Whedon! Stay tuned for another frightening installment of the Romney Creature Features!
Before I moved to Nevada, I remember seeing reports on the news about such-and-such state being worst in the nation for something important, like education, health care, or even jobs. I would watch those reports or read those news stories and think, “What a crappy place that is. Who would want to live there?” Cut…
Thanks to a long-overdue overhaul by the USDA, school lunches are likely to look a lot different starting July 1. Here in Las Vegas, the Clark County School District — the nation’s fifth largest — is readying to implement new school lunch guidelines this fall. And it’s one tall order. As this well-written and insightful…
The Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth is having an open house and yard sale on Saturday, May 19 at the William Fry Drop-in Center. There will be a barbecue and items for sale — 100% of the proceeds from the event go to help homeless youth. For information contact Cassandra at 702-383-1332. And here’s your…
In honor of The Sin City Siren’s 5th birthday, I have been campaigning for the readers’ charity of choice: *God’s Groceries. The week’s nearly come to an end, and I hope that I have motivated you to donate or do some other service toward helping the needy in our community. As I shared earlier this…
For a lot of people who have met me in the past decade or so, it might seem like I don’t know anything about poverty first-hand. After all, I’m a white, stay-at-home mom in the suburbs. It doesn’t get more stereotypically middle-class and conventional than that. But anyone who reads The Sin City Siren with…
Dear readers, you have spoken! And the winner of The Sin City Siren’s 5th Anniversary Charity Poll is God’s Groceries! It was a hot match between The ACLU of Nevada and God’s Groceries. And up until an hour left in voting today The ACLU had it all but sewn up. But God’s Groceries, which is…
Holy food pantry voters, Batman! God’s Groceries has jumped way out ahead in The Sin City Siren anniversary poll! But if that’s not your top pick for who should get a week’s worth of free advertising and fundraising from your truly — I like to pay it forward for my anniversary — there is still…
Today is Equal Pay Day. It represents how far into 2012 women have to work to make the same salary as men in all of 2011. And call me kooky, but it feels like some kind of poetic twist that it falls on Tax Day, a day when many Americans begrudgingly pay their fair share.…
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