Originally published in American Banker on April 9th, 2015. Top Fed Official Meets with Pot Industry Over Banking Impasse by Kevin Wack APR 9, 2015 8:09pm ET A top Federal Reserve official met Thursday with owners of marijuana businesses in Colorado, who catalogued the difficulties of operating in an industry that's largely been locked out of the banking system. The pot barons' meeting with Esther George, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, shows that the fledgling industr...
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POLITICO Pro Q&A: Ed Perlmutter Rep. Ed Perlmutter actually has a Nike FuelBand. | AP By ASHLEY GOLD 4/3/15 10:45 AM EDT Members of Congress are a compulsive and competitive lot, but like the rest of us they spend a lot of time sitting down. So it comes as no surprise to hear that large numbers of lawmakers are joining the step-counting “Quantified Self” movement. Last month, Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) talked up fellow Colorado Democrat Ed Perlmutter’s love of wearable fitness at an event on ...
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Content originally published by the Denver Post on February 15, 2015. The appointments of U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter and U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner to key congressional committees overseeing national space policy and science exploration could help propel Colorado to the top of the aerospace heap. "We now have stability in Congress to make sure dollars and projects underway in Colorado don't get curtailed," said Metro Denver Economic Development Corp. CEO Tom Clark. "This is significant momentum to us ...
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Content originally published by the Denver Post on February 12, 2015 It's a situation that seems almost unthinkable in the modern era. But thanks to years of government mismanagement, U.S. weather forecasts soon could see a dip in accuracy — leaving the country more vulnerable to hurricanes, floods and other natural disasters. The reason lies with the nation's fleet of aging weather satellites, particularly one probe now in a polar orbit. That satellite, known as S-NPP, was launched in 2011 and...
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