OPINION: Realize Las Cruces: City Council’s Vote Could Reshape Neighborhood Zoning
By Sarah Smith | Dec 17, 2024
Zoning codes don’t sound exciting, but they impact many aspects of our City and daily lives.
OPINION: Vindicated but not consoled: congressional report and the toll of ill-conceived mandates
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.
OPINION: Examining New Mexico’s HB7: Implications for Parental Consent and Youth Gender Care
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.
OPINION: Both Democrat and Republican legislators have failed us
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.
Should pornography be allowed to remain in Las Cruces Schools?
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.
UNM and NMSU should drop their COVID-19 vaccine mandates now
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COVID-19 vaccine mandates at the University of New Mexico (UNM) and New Mexico State University (NMSU) should be rescinded immediately.
Las Cruces City Council allows marijuana to be sold near school for the poor
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.
CDC’s guidance change is long overdue and much damage has occurred in the meantime
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.
This crisis is bigger than just our generation
By Sarah Smith | Mar 16, 2022
This is a pivotal time for the current generation, but it is also much bigger than that.
