Content originally published by Roll Call on May 17th, 2016. The House will debate the mood-altering drugs prescribed to veterans, the military support provided to Taiwan and the process for closing the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba starting Tuesday when it takes on a package of more than 60 amendments proposed so far to the annual defense authorization bill. Each amendment will get 10 minutes of floor time during the first phase of debate over how the House will prioritize spending in the fisc... Read more

Content originally published by The Westminster Window on May 16th, 2016. Congressman Ed Perlmutter, a Democrat from near Golden, announced last week the students from the 7th Congressional District he nominated to receive appointments to the nation’s military service academies, as well as this year’s Congressional Art Competition winner. Perlmutter hosted a reception May 6 for all the students who participated in the 2016 Congressional Art Competition. About 80 students from across the 7th Con... Read more

Content originally published by KUSA 9news on May 15th, 2016. KUSA - When Karen Mahany received the contents of her husband’s charred wallet, she noticed a small piece of paper that was unburned. She read it, and she started crying. It was a passage from scripture. “No greater love hath a man than to lay down his life for another,” it said. Karen considered it a sign. Nine months after her husband died in a fiery Flight for Life crash in Frisco, Karen Mahany still has it. It’s a constant remind... Read more

Content originally published by The Villager on May 11th, 2016. On May 4, Denver scored an honor over hundreds of other American cities when Maria Contreras-Sweet, administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration, arrived in Denver to celebrate National Small Business Week. Speaking that day at a breakfast celebrating women-owned business, as well as at Colorado’s SBA luncheon at which Colorado’s 2016 Small Business Person of the Year was honored, Contreras-Sweet struck a celebratory cho... Read more

Content originally published by The Westminster Window on April 20th, 2016. Final edits are underway on a veteran-focused film project involving Westminster High School students and sponsored by Congressman Ed Perlmutter. The film “Medic!” will debut May 20 at the Joanna Ramsey Theatre at Westminster High School and features the stories of five combat medics who served their country. The film will ultimately be screened at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., and provide a lasting recor... Read more

Content originally published by The Denver Business Journal on May 5th, 2016. Alliance Data officials formally opened the company's second customer service center in Westminster on Thursday and the company’s president said there may be plans for a third center. “We intend to double the size of our business by 2020,” said Melisa Miller, president of Alliance Data, which does about $2.5 billion in annual revenue. “And there would be nothing more energizing than celebrating a third building. So pe... Read more

Content originally published by The Denver Business Journal on May 4th, 2016. It was 1985 and Diana DeGette, then a Denver attorney, wanted to hang her own shingle by opening her own law firm. She needed $5,000 to buy a computer and some office furniture. The commercial bank she went to told her she could get that loan if she could open a $5,000 bank account. “If I had $5,000 to put in the bank, I wouldn’t need the loan,” she said. DeGette, now a U.S. congresswoman (D-Denver) in her 10th term, ... Read more

Content originally published by The Denver Post on April 29th, 2016. Colorado U.S. Reps. Ed Perlmutter, a Democrat, and Mike Coffman, a Republican, co-hosted an event on veterans’ mental health Thursday night the Capitol Visitors Center in Washington, D.C. The featured attraction was a documentary by veteran Colorado newsman Steffan Tubbs on post-traumatic stress disorder, known by the acronym PTSD. Tubbs is the executive producer and director and producer of“ACRONYM: The Cross-Generational Bat... Read more

Content originally published by The Denver Post on April 25th, 2016. A federal advisory board designed to help workers sickened while working at former nuclear weapons facilities in the United States, including Rocky Flats west of Denver, get compensation and medical benefits will meet for the first time this week. The 15-member Advisory Board on Toxic Substances and Worker Health will meet Tuesday through Thursday in Washington D.C. The board was established last year to help reduce the red ta... Read more

Content originally published by The Gazette on April 22nd, 2016. While federal data show some banks have been willing to serve the marijuana industry in recent years, those banks are few and far between in Colorado - and they prefer to stay anonymous. Amanda Averch, director of communications for The Colorado Bankers Association, said her organization is aware of 12 banks in Colorado that are willing to work with the marijuana industry. She did not disclose which banks work with such businesses... Read more