Advocates renew push for quarter-a-drink alcohol tax hike
New Mexico hasn’t raised alcohol taxes in 30 years.
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New Mexico hasn’t raised alcohol taxes in 30 years.
Donavan Henry, of Tohatchi, was the driver in a November 2022 incident near Sheep Springs that cost one of his passengers his life.
Nearly two years after state lawmakers set aside $1 million for the New Mexico Attorney General’s office to create an online portal to track cases of missing Indigenous people, and potentially give tribes grants to help in that search, the office hasn’t spent the money.
The New Mexico Attorney General’s Office aims to grant at least some of the funds to tribes by July.
I’m writing from the third floor of the Ross Pendergraft Library.