Sarah Smith

2 months ago | houstonchronicle.com | Sarah Smith

The crowd quivers behind the glass barrier at a Houston airport's international terminal, watching the white doors as they slide apart and close with a sigh. They clutch green-white-red-black balloons and handwritten signs. Cheers gather in their throats. The doors open again. A woman pushes a teenage boy out of the secure area. He sits atop a cushion on a red wheelchair. He wears a white T-shirt and a light-gray baseball cap. Someone has draped a keffiyeh around his shoulders.

2 months ago | krwg.org | Sarah Smith

Commentary: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. Everyone needs to know about the proposed changes, which will set the course for Las Cruces for the next couple decades. Like my family, many bought homes in single family residential zones so that their neighborhoods would have a little space for the kids to play with less traffic and bustle.

Feb 14, 2025 | houstonchronicle.com | Sarah Smith

Saint Francis Wolf Sanctuary, located about an hour north of Houston, is a nonprofit organization that provides lifelong care for wolves and wolf-dogs and educates visitors about conservation. In this Q&A, Lauren Gaulding, the sanctuary's education and conservation specialist, takes us behind the scenes to share more about the sanctuary, its mission, what it takes to care for wolves and wolf-dogs and some facts about wolves in the wild.

Feb 14, 2025 | houstonchronicle.com | Sarah Smith

The wolf's life will change on a sweltering September day, but she doesn't know it yet. All she knows is this: She is kept in a too-small enclosure topped with a tarp and guarded by cinder blocks to keep her from digging out. Hot soil scorches her paws. Hunger twists her stomach. A collar grips her neck. The wolf is owned in the only ways a wolf can be owned: illegally, unwillingly, and in body alone. She should have a territory that might extend hundreds of square miles.

Feb 13, 2025 | houstonchronicle.com | Sarah Smith

When I learn everyone is frantically Googling " asteroid to hit earth," I feel more optimistic than I have in months. I run outside to look up at the sky and see nothing. The sky, like my pallor and the General State Of The World, is an opaque gray. Perhaps the asteroid is hidden behind the cloud, waiting for an invitation. Perhaps, like me, it is just a little antisocial. I wait. No asteroid. Article continues below this adSo, I go back inside and do what everyone else is doing. I Google it.