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The streets of downtown Longmont were packed Saturday morning as spectators enjoyed the sights and sounds of the Boulder County Fair Parade.
The parade is a city tradition that began over 150 years ago to drum up excitement for the Boulder County Fair, which kicks off Thursday. The route starts and ends at Roosevelt Park, 700 Longs Peak Ave., and featured 58 organizations this year.
Lafayette, CO — On Sunday, August 6, 2023, Congressman Joe Neguse will hold an Eagle County Town Hall in Avon, to hear from Coloradans about the issues that matter to them. Congressman Neguse will provide a legislative update on his work in Washington, including the progress made in the year since the enactment of both the historic Inflation Reduction Act and the PACT Act. Congressman Neguse will also answer questions from the audience.
Lafayette, CO — Yesterday, Congressman Neguse, alongside Mike Walljasper, the Assistant Veteran Service Center Manager at the VA, John Keene, the Commander and Executive Director of the Department of Colorado VFW, and Ralph Bozella, a member of American Legion Colorado leadership, encouraged veterans to file a claim to receive compensation before the August 9th deadline. You can listen to the press call here.
A potential lease between Summit County, the Town of Dillon and the U.S. Forest Service would be the first in the country to allow a local municipality to build affordable housing on National Forest land.
The county’s pathway to use forest service land began with the 2018 Farm Bill which made it possible for the USFS to repurpose underused administrative sites for housing. The county then filed paperwork with the department in 2018.
U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse, D-Lafayette, is encouraging veterans to file a claim under the PACT Act to receive compensation by Wednesday.
The PACT Act expanded veteran health care. The bill provides health care coverage to more than 3.5 million post 9/11 veterans who were exposed to burn pits or other toxins during deployment. Veterans can receive up to 12 months of backdated compensation when they begin the claiming process by Wednesday.
Lafayette, CO — Today, Congressman Joe Neguse issued the following statement on President Biden’s decision to keep the U.S. Space Command in Colorado:
Dear Neighbors, On Friday, I traveled back home from Washington, D.C. eager to spend some time with our community after a busy few weeks in our nation’s capital.
Alongside other western state legislators, U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse has introduced a bipartisan bill to reauthorize the U.S. Forest Service’s Secure Rural Schools and Self-Determination Program through 2023.
This follows Neguse helping to secure a two-year extension for the program through 2023 as part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law in 2021.
The Air Force has decided that U.S. Space Command's permanent headquarters will remain in Colorado Springs, instead of moving to Huntsville, Ala.
The long-awaited decision caps more than two years of wrangling by officials from both Colorado and Alabama after former President Donald Trump announced in the final days of his administration that the command's headquarters would move to Alabama.
Washington, D.C. — Today, Congressman Joe Neguse, Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), and Congresswoman Val Hoyle (D-OR) introduced their bipartisan bill to reauthorize the U.S. Forest Service’s Secure Rural Schools and Self-Determination Program (SRS) through 2026. In 2021, Rep.