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This June, Sabra Forquer of Granby traveled to Washington D.C. to celebrate winning first place in a nationwide art contest. Her work, “Colorado Roots Run Deep,” celebrates the soul of the American West and the diversity of the Centennial State in its new home at the nation’s capitol.
DENVER — Colorado will receive more than $420 million in federal broadband funding after the National Telecommunications and Information Administration approved the state’s final proposal under the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) program.
Colorado Congressman Joe Neguse was named the most effective Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives in both environment and public lands policy areas this week, according to a news release from Neguse’s office.
The Center for Effective Lawmaking released the rankings as part of its Interest & Legislative Effectiveness Scores for 2023 to 2025, identifying top-performing lawmakers in each area, by party, for both the House and the Senate.
The federal government will now allow its firefighters to mask up — upending a decades-long policy that had left them exposed to toxic flurries of illness-inducing wildfire smoke.
The U.S. Forest Service this week issued new guidance for wildland firefighters regarding the voluntary use of N95 respirators via the National Interagency Fire Center’s health program, as first reported by The New York Times.
U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse, the assistant House minority leader and a Lafayette Democrat, held his 15th in-person town hall of the year on Aug. 19 in Steamboat Springs, racking up more of the events in eight months than the rest of the state’s House delegation combined.
A dozen House Democrats who were barred from visiting immigration detention facilities sued the Trump administration on Wednesday, arguing that a new policy imposed by the Department of Homeland Security to limit lawmakers’ access was an illegal infringement on their ability to conduct congressional oversight.
Colorado Congressman Joe Neguse is leading the opposition to proposed funding cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that would close longstanding research institutions across the country and in Northern Colorado.
U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse, D-Colo., during a town hall Friday in Frisco responded to questions about the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign and the passage of a Republican policy bill.
A Trump administration scheme to jam through a big increase in Utah oil trains traveling along tracks in the narrow canyons of the upper Colorado River was met with a strong statement of condemnation by Colorado U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse and Sen. Michael Bennet on Monday.
“The Bureau of Land Management’s decision to fast-track the Wildcat Loadout expansion — a project that would transport an additional 70,000 barrels of crude oil [a day] on train tracks along the Colorado River — using emergency procedures, is profoundly flawed,” the lawmakers wrote.
Republicans in the U.S. Senate have introduced a proposal to sell millions of acres of federal land in 11 Western states, including Colorado. The proposal is part of President Trump's budget bill and would require the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service to auction off 2.2 - 3.3 million acres of land.