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The Continental Divide Trail stretches more than 3,100 miles from Canada to Mexico, but 44 years after Congress authorized its creation, it still has 160 miles of gaps. Rep. Joe Neguse has been trying to fill them through congressional action, and he visited one of them this week, a potentially dangerous stretch at Muddy Pass in northern Colorado near Rabbit Ears Pass.

On that 15-mile section, CDT hikers must walk along U.S. 40 and Colorado Highway 14. Neguse went there Wednesday to dramatize the need for completing the trail.

Colorado’s congressional delegation came together in a panel at the annual summer Colorado Water Congress conference in Steamboat Springs this week highlighting that elected leaders in Colorado are working toward solutions regarding critical water supply issues.

The Continental Divide Trail stretches more than 3,100 miles from Canada to Mexico, but 44 years after Congress authorized its creation, it still has 160 miles of gaps. Rep. Joe Neguse has been trying to fill them through congressional action, and he visited one of them this week, a potentially dangerous stretch at Muddy Pass in northern Colorado near Rabbit Ears Pass.

On that 15-mile section, CDT hikers must walk along U.S. 40 and Colorado Highway 14. Neguse went there Wednesday to dramatize the need for completing the trail.

Fort Collins could be home to Colorado's next federal courthouse in a recent push to expand federal judgeships in the state.

Larimer County Rep. Joe Neguse introduced two bills in May that would:

Bipartisanship was the buzz word as Colorado's federal lawmakers visited the Colorado Water Congress in Steamboat Springs last week.

Both U.S. Sens. Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper touted the funding coming from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act signed by President Joe Biden a year ago and some of the projects that will benefit from that allocation.

On Aug. 24 Rep. Joe Neguse visited Grand County, making stops in Kremmling and Granby. His first stop was in Kremmling to speak about the importance of closing the gaps on the Continental Divide Trail.

Neguse visited the Muddy Pass area of the trail, which is north of Kremmling, and then sat down with the Bureau of Land Management, the U.S. Forest Service, the Continental Divide Trail Coalition, Headwaters Trails Alliance and representatives from the Town of Grand Lake. They spoke about the challenges each agency faced in completing the Continental Divide Trail.

Since the late 1990s Colorado has tried to expand access to high-speed broadband. It’s been done in starts and stops, and sometimes not at all.

Silverton, in San Juan County, is a prime example.

“A) we're not a large customer base. B) it's really hard to get here,” said Deanne Gallegos, executive director of the Silverton Area Chamber of Commerce, who’s been involved in trying to get the town and county connected for years.

U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries joined U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse and local stakeholders for a conversation on gun violence prevention Monday in Boulder. 

Representatives from various gun violence prevention organizations as well as leaders in education answered questions about what leads to incidents of gun violence and what should happen to properly address its root causes. The University of Colorado Boulder hosted the event, which was moderated by Reiland Rabaka, founder and director of the university’s Center for African and African American Studies.