THE GOOD: NM boasts a major reduction in unemployment benefit fraud: Government efficiency (the wise and prudent use of taxpayers’ money), is an important part of a healthy economy. The NMBC commends Celina Bussey and the Department of Workforce Solutions (NMDWS) for the efficient use of tax dollars by dropping the fraud rate of unemployment benefits 60% from 2012 to 2013. Congratulations Secretary Bussey!

Happy New Year New Mexico: As 2014 gets underway, we want to thank you for supporting the New Mexico Business Coalition (NMBC). We exist because of you! The NMBC is a grassroots coalition that brings business owners, employees and all New Mexicans who want a better life together. Through this unity, we work to encourage a pro-business environment that will provide more jobs, strengthen our economy and improve our quality of life. We are non-partisan and focus on the facts - not party affiliation.

NMBC on KKOB Morning Show at 9am TODAY: As 2013 comes to an end, New Mexicans have one last chance to talk with New Mexico Business Coalition's President, Carla Sonntag. Carla will be the guest of today's morning show with host, Terrie Q. Sayre, from 9 - 10am, on the 770 KKOB.

As we spend time with our families during this holiday season, the NMBC wants to thank you for your support and wish you all the joy, hope and peace that the celebration of Christmas brings. To remind us that Christmas is more than just a day, here are some thoughts from President Ronald Reagan’s 1981 Christmas message:

NM Rep Archuleta Does it Again: Phillip Archuleta, the freshman Representative from Las Cruces, is bringing new meaning to the expression, “bought and paid for.”

Is the Bernalillo County Commission above the law? Apparently, that’s what Commissioners Maggie Hart Stebbin, Chair, Debbie O’Malley, Vice Chair, and Art De La Cruz seem to think. These three Commissioners are currently planning to pass the “Taxpayer Protection Act”. Commissioners Wayne Johnson and Lonnie Talbert are opposed.

The New Mexico Business Coalition (NMBC) is Thankful for Our New Friends from Alamogordo and Las Cruces. Last week was a busy travel week for the NMBC as we spoke to a Rotary Club in Alamogordo on Wednesday and a Dona Ana County group in Las Cruces on Friday. Carla Sonntag, President of the NMBC, is glad to take the NMBC’s pro-business, anti-progressive vision to all corners of the state. And the reaction was GREAT with scores of new NMBC followers and members.