By Sarah Smith | Mar 15, 2025
New Mexico is ranked 50th in the Nation for education. Academic proficiencies for New Mexico schools are shocking.
By Sarah Smith | Feb 27, 2025
Most parents intuitively know that exposing their children to age-inappropriate explicit content can be harmful. Researchers have also investigated this and have found connections between children being exposed to sexually explicit materials and potential harms.
By Sarah Smith | Feb 17, 2025
Women had to fight for decades in order to achieve equal access to sports.
By Sarah Smith | Feb 12, 2025
On February 18, Las Cruces City Council will likely be voting on whether to adopt “Realize Las Cruces,” which includes sweeping changes to the zoning code that will affect all neighborhoods.
By Sarah Smith | Jan 10, 2025
Our communities are bearing the brunt of a criminal justice system that is broken—one that fails to adequately address mental health challenges and drug addiction.
By Sarah Smith | Jan 8, 2025
The 2025 New Mexico Legislative session begins on January 21st and runs through March 22nd
By Sarah Smith | Dec 17, 2024
Zoning codes don’t sound exciting, but they impact many aspects of our City and daily lives.
By Sarah Smith | Dec 12, 2024
Many of us remember 2020 as the year of COVID, when our lives were upended and nothing would ever be the same again. What began as a novel illness quickly cascaded into “2 weeks to flatten the curve,” followed by lockdowns, school closures, mask mandates, and vaccine mandates.
By Sarah Smith | Nov 18, 2024
In 2023, the NM legislature and Governor signed law HB7, which requires that school districts must not “interfere” in any way with children accessing transgender (and abortion) procedures. Despite what some lawmakers have said about this law, there is no requirement for parental notification and there are no age restrictions for children to access these procedures. Schools can be fined $5,000 per instance if teachers or nurses “interfere” by talking to children's parents about their transgender procedures.
By Sarah Smith | Jul 23, 2024
I don’t usually agree with the Governor. Over her tenure, I have objected to most of Governor Lujan Grisham’s policies including her disastrous Covid lockdown and school closures (from which we’re still struggling to recover), her electric vehicle mandates (which will hit the poor the hardest), and her tyrannical use of emergency powers to disarm law-abiding citizens.
By Sarah Smith | Nov 8, 2023
On October 12, Las Cruces Public Schools (LCPS) held a formal hearing about the book Jack of Hearts and Other Parts.
By Sarah Smith | Dec 12, 2022
COVID-19 vaccine mandates at the University of New Mexico (UNM) and New Mexico State University (NMSU) should be rescinded immediately.
By Sarah Smith | Sep 9, 2022
On September 6, the Las Cruces City Council and Mayor voted unanimously to allow recreational marijuana to be sold right next to New America School, despite the fact that the City Ordinance calls for a minimum buffer distance of 300 feet between a school and a marijuana dispensary.
By Sarah Smith | Aug 22, 2022
The CDC recently changed their COVID-19 guidance with an update that the unvaccinated should no longer be treated differently than the vaccinated.
By Sarah Smith | Mar 16, 2022
This is a pivotal time for the current generation, but it is also much bigger than that.
