HENDERSON \u2014 Beer and wine became available February 1 in Henderson, and the move is translating into a big uptick in sales tax receipts. According to KETK, the Texas Comptroller\u2019s Office says February sales tax revenues were up over 25 per cent from February of last year. Weldon Gray was treasurer for the action committee that proposed alcohol sales. He says it\u2019s not just alcohol that\u2019s responsible for the revenue surge. He says alcohol customers buy more fuel and groceries in the city, and \u201cit\u2019s just a big boost to the local economy.\u201d But some continue to oppose the move. One man says he\u2019s noticed an increase in beer bottles and cans on the side of the road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
HENDERSON \u2014 Beer and wine became available February 1 in Henderson, and the move is translating into a big uptick in sales tax receipts. According to KETK, the Texas Comptroller\u2019s Office says February sales tax revenues were up over 25 per cent from February of last year. Weldon Gray was treasurer for the action committee … Continue reading Alcohol Sales Increase Henderson Sales Tax Revenues<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-02 00:01:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181785"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182063,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181785\/revisions\/182063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}