Groceries are up, gas is up, and a lot of New Mexico families are doing that quiet math at the checkout line, hoping the card doesn’t decline. We start with the most surprising development we’ve seen in a long time: a top New Mexico Democrat, Sen. George Muñoz, publicly laying out a serious case for reducing and ultimately eliminating the New Mexico state income tax. We read the strongest lines, talk about what “real relief” looks like, and why measuring government success by bigger reserves ...