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U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse announced Wednesday that the Town of Silverthorne and the counties of Boulder and Larimer will receive funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law aimed at helping communities create safer roadways, reducing traffic fatalities, and serious injuries. The funding is part of the Transportation Department’s Safe Streets For All discretionary program. Boulder County’s allocation of just under $500,000 will go to the county’s Vision Zero Action Plan.
U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse, along with a bipartisan coalition of other Congressional lawmakers, including Sen. Michael Bennet, recently reintroduced legislation aimed at bolstering outdoor recreation by developing a framework for how national forests collect and spend some of the annual fees paid by ski areas operating within U.S. Forest Service land.
“Our bill will deliver for Colorado’s mountain towns, keep ski fees local and bring federal resources to our national forests,” Neguse stated in a Feb. 9 social media post.
U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse, the vice-chair of the U.S. House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, will attend President Joe Biden’s State of the Union Address to Congress on Tuesday, Feb. 7, with special guest Ellen Mahoney.
Ellen’s late husband, Kevin Mahoney, was one of 10 people killed during the mass shooting at King Soopers in Boulder in March 2021.
On Tuesday, Rep. Joe Neguse expressed “deep concerns” over the mismanagement of post offices in Western Colorado in a letter to Jason McMahill, the district manager for the Colorado-Wyoming United States Postal Service district.
The letter states that the Colorado-Wyoming district’s mismanagement has led to “urgent concerns about the operations and conditions” of many of the mountain post offices.
Longmont’s business and nonprofit sector received special attention from Joe Neguse of Colorado’s 2nd Congressional District as part of the congressman’s citywide visit Thursday.
Longmont was only fully incorporated into the 2nd Congressional District, which covers north-central Colorado, at the beginning of this year. Neguse said he’s excited to represent the entirety of the city and learn more about its needs.
Joe Neguse is the lone noncoastal lawmaker in House Democratic leadership, and he’s quick to remind visitors to his Rayburn office where he comes from.
As the need for child care remains high in Summit County, officials are banking on a new facility — set to open in Silverthorne later this year — to provide needed relief to hundreds of families.
A year after the devastation of the Marshall Fire, Boulder County is set to receive $1 million in funding to upgrade its emergency siren system.
U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse (D-Lafayette), who co-chairs the bipartisan Congressional Wildfire Caucus, helped procure the $1 million to replace the system, a news release confirmed.
“The Marshall Fire razed neighborhoods across Louisville, Superior, and unincorporated Boulder County — destroying over a thousand homes and businesses, and resulting in the tragic loss of life,” Rep. Neguse stated in the release.
U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse’s star rose a bit higher in the Democratic caucus with the party’s recent leadership selection.
The Lafayette Democrat was recently re-elected to his third term. It will also be his first as a member of the minority party in the House of Representatives. But in it, he’ll lead his party’s messaging arm from the No. 5 spot in leadership.
His new role as chair of the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee is the most senior leadership role a Colorado member of Congress has had in 85 years, according to his office.
Jun Ye, a physicist at JILA, explains his research to U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse on Dec. 16, 2021 in this file photo. US Rep. Joe Neguse, D-Lafayette, visited CU Boulder’s Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA) for a tour and to talk about the federal infrastructure bill. (Cliff Grassmick/Staff Photographer)
The 2023 omnibus government spending bill includes $2 million for lab renovations at the University of Colorado Boulder JILA, formerly known as the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics.
The pneumatic controls and dual-duct HVAC systems used by JILA are obsolete in cutting-edge research laboratories, putting JILA at a disadvantage,” according to U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse, whose district includes Boulder. “With this funding, JILA will be able to renovate its lab and bolster its competitiveness.”