I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
New Mexico Attorney General Gary King told KOB-TV Friday that he opposes the food tax and believes that if anything should be taxed, it should be alcohol, not food.
“I don’t see alcohol that’s something that’s necessary to survive, and that’s why we talk about these as ‘sin taxes’ because they are taxes on products that people want to consume, but don’t have to consume,” King told KOB.
King is up for re-election this year and has drawn just one challenger, Republican Matthew Chandler. Chandler is the 9th judicial district attorney.
King told KOB that he has been fighting for rising the taxes on alcohol for years as a way to curb alcohol abuse and drunk driving; but Sen. Kent Cravens, a Republican who has been leading efforts to curb DWI since his family was killed by a drunk driver, told KOB that he does not support using ‘sin taxes’ to patch the general fund
