Content orginally published by the Denver Post on December 6th, 2015. U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter didn’t arrive down a chimney and he’s way too thin be confused with the jolliest old elf, but Saturday marked the eighth year in a row the jovial politician has celebrated the holidays with his constituents. About 140 people showed up on a sunny December Saturday afternoon for his annual open house at his district office on West Colfax Avenue in Lakewood. It’s hard to construe it as a campaign event, s... Read more

Content originally published by the Denver Post on December 4th, 2015. The $305 billion highway transportation funding bill that Congress passed and sent to the White House has a lot for Colorado to love, besides unsticking much-needed transportation money for state projects. The five-year Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act restores a crop-insurance subsidy that’s available to Colorado farmers and renews the Export-Import Bank, which extends help to small businesses in the state... Read more

Content originally published on CBS4 on December 1st, 2015. (CBS4)– Colorado representatives led the House of Representatives on Capitol Hill in a moment of silence on Tuesday to honor the victims in the Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs. “I ask my colleagues to join me and my colleagues from the Colorado delegation and with the community of Colorado Springs for a moment of silence and to reflect upon the lives that were lost and to pray for their families and loved ones,” said Rep.... Read more

Content originally published by the Lakewood Sentinel on November 25th, 2015. By Clarke Reader Lakewood Sentinel About me I moved to Colorado when I was around 8 or 9 years old, and have been in Lakewood pretty much the entire time. I went to Patterson Elementary, O’Connell Middle and Alameda High School. I joined the active Army in 2006, and then joined the Army National Guard in 2012 when I returned home. I started attending college at Red Rocks Community College and now I’m studying civil en... Read more

Content originally published by the Denver Post on November 25th, 2015. By Catherine Elsby Denver Post YourHub ARVADA —Kathrynn Mann of Arvada knew the trove of wartime documents she found was special. But she didn't know just what to do with the notes her uncle took in a Vietnam prisoner-of-war camp. Now, thanks to her, the details of the five years Air Force Col. John Stavast spent in the Hanoi Hilton will be available to scholars and historians via the Library of Congress. "The magnitude of ... Read more

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Article orginally published on KUSA on November 10th, 2015. KUSA - An Arvada woman plans to donate her uncle's military papers to the Library of Congress, including secret handwritten prisoner lists he kept as a POW during the Vietnam War. In 1967, then Lt. Col. John Stavast's plane was shot down during a mission over Hanoi. Stavast was originally classified as missing in action (MIA), and his family did not know if he was dead or alive for years. He was held as a prisoner of war at the notorio... Read more

Article orginally published on KUSA on November 10th, 2015. KUSA - An Arvada woman plans to donate her uncle's military papers to the Library of Congress, including secret handwritten prisoner lists he kept as a POW during the Vietnam War. In 1967, then Lt. Col. John Stavast's plane was shot down during a mission over Hanoi. Stavast was originally classified as missing in action (MIA), and his family did not know if he was dead or alive for years. He was held as a prisoner of war at the notorio... Read more

This content was orginally published on KUSA on October 29th, 2015. KUSA – Following a series of stories by 9Wants to Know on the tendency of helicopter fuel tanks to rupture following low-impact crashes, one of the major owners of EMS helicopters in the country says it's committed to retrofitting the fuel systems on its entire fleet of one helicopter in particular. Englewood-based Air Methods released a statement to 9Wants to Know this week saying it intends to start retrofitting its fleet of ... Read more

This content was originally published by the Denver Business Journal on October 30, 2015. U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter wants Congress and President Barack Obama to give NASA a clear goal of landing astronauts on Mars in 2033 to crystallize support for Lockheed Martin Space Systems’ Orion space capsule and end what he considers underfunding for the locally-led spacecraft project. The Golden Democrat is a member of the Science, Space and Technology committee in the U.S. House of Representatives. Orion... Read more