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Car prices speed past young buyers

Photo of dealership row on Lomas Blvd. Albuquerque, New Mexico. Photo by Jovien Avila and Jack Boggs/ NM News Port

If you’re looking for a new or used car the chances are the price is higher than manufactures suggested retail price.

Lawmakers say alcohol on 2023 session agenda

ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO - JUNE 26, 2022: The alcohol department at a grocery store Albuquerque, NM on June 26, 2022. CREDIT: Adria Malcolm for New Mexico In Depth

New Mexico leads the nation in alcohol related deaths. A possible solution is raising the tax on alcohol by the percentage of its price rather than by the volume.

Disinformation endangers democracy in NM and beyond, experts say

Voting site in Albuquerque, Election Night, Nov. 2, 2021. (Photo by Marisa Demarco / Source NM)

Conspiracy theories are infecting the election cycle and jeopardizing voting rights. This report by Andrew Beale for Source NM is part of worldwide “Democracy Day” coverage.

Kendrick leads Lobos with ‘discipline, toughness… and love’

University of New Mexico coach Danny Gonzales named senior transfer Miles Kendrick the starting QB for the upcoming Season. Here is a step into Miles’ life.

NM’s Opportunity Scholarship providing financial and mental relief

Now that New Mexico introduced the Opportunity Scholarship to give undergraduate students free-tuition, campuses are seeing big numbers of returning students.

Blind Drunk: A Sober Appraisal

Illustration by Shelby Criswell for New Mexico In Depth

Reducing New Mexico’s extraordinary alcohol death rate will require a whole-of-society approach.

Blind Drunk: Paying The Tab

New Mexico State Capitol. Image by Marjorie Childress for New Mexico In Depth.

Scientists say policies can help the state cut excess drinking, but lawmakers listen to alcohol interests instead.

Blind Drunk: Every Door Is The Right Door

Steve Harbin sits at his dining room table at his home in Albuquerque, N.M. CREDIT: Adria Malcolm for New Mexico In Depth

Alcohol dependence is New Mexico’s biggest untreated substance use problem. Doctors can do more to treat it.

Blind Drunk: Poisonous Myths

Public safety officers help an intoxicated man who had fallen asleep outside the Sports Page Lounge in Gallup, N.M. CREDIT: Ted Alcorn for New Mexico In Depth.

Stereotypes about alcohol and Native people are hiding a crisis that’s bigger than any single group.