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U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse stopped by Breckenridge Friday, May 6, to visit a planned workforce housing site along with Summit County and Breckenridge officials. The “Justice Center parcel project,” as town officials have unofficially dubbed it, will provide the town with 52 workforce housing units.
“It’s exciting,” Neguse said. “Kudos to the county leadership, (town) leadership and local community that has the foresight to address this acute housing affordability crisis.”
Colorado Mountain College celebrated graduation for over 100 students across the Breckenridge and Dillon campuses on Friday.
Hundreds of family members and friends gathered at the Breckenridge Riverwalk Center for the main graduation, and about 50 attended the nursing graduation at the Breckenridge campus. This marked the first graduation to allow an unlimited number of in-person guests since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic .
U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse, along with several House colleagues, is urging Congress to raise the pay for federal wildland firefighters as they battle tinder-dry conditions across the country, particularly in the West.
In Colorado, experts say the conditions have cranked up April's fire risk to what the state would normally see in the summer.
DENVER — Gov. Jared Polis and local and state leaders announced new legislation on Friday to help prepare for, respond to and recover from wildfires in Colorado.
Senate Bill 206 creates two grant funds to help families and businesses trying to rebuild after a natural disaster, like a wildfire.
More than 150 people gathered at CU Boulder earlier this month for a lively, moderated discussion between U.S. Reps. Joe Neguse, Democrat of Colorado and John Curtis, Republican of Utah (who joined virtually), on how finding common ground in politics could help fight the climate crisis.
Rep. Joe Neguse introduced a package of bills Tuesday designed to prevent mass shootings and provide resources to victims, especially workers, who survive.
U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse will announce on Tuesday a three-pronged approach to preventing, blunting and recovering from mass shooting events, with the unveiling of a trio of bills he will introduce in Congress just weeks after the first anniversary of the Boulder King Soopers shooting that claimed 10 lives.
A little more than two weeks after the NCAR Fire, U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet and U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse looked over the burn area and saw green growth already beginning to replace the blackened ground.
A group of Democratic lawmakers renewed calls for legislation prohibiting members of Congress from trading stock while in office during a press conference Thursday.
The lawmakers, which included Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley, New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Colorado Rep. Joe Neguse, among others, say the ban is necessary for lawmakers to regain public trust in federal officials.
“We are elected to serve the people, not stock portfolios,” said Neguse, who led the press conference.
With crews still responding to the NCAR fire that forced thousands of people to evacuate over the weekend, a panel on Wednesday stressed that these types of events are part of the growing cost of climate change in Colorado.
While the NCAR fire has been mostly contained with no damage to structures or lives lost, the early spring fire combined with the recent destruction of the Marshall fire has made the impacts of Colorado’s changing climate all the more visible to legislators and their constituents.