Content originally published by KMGH Channel 7 on December 31st, 2015. Lakewood is soon to be home to 1,000 unaccompanied immigrant children who will be re-locating to the metro area from Central America in an effort to escape the violence and child trafficking in their home countries. The children are set to be housed inside the secure federal complex in a warehouse that will be retro-fitted for their use. Congressman Ed Perlmutter says they just learned that Colorado was being chosen for the ... Read more

Content originally published by the Denver Post on December 31st, 2015. A day after the federal government's announcement it would send up to 1,000 unaccompanied Central American children to a building at its Federal Center in Lakewood in April, city officials and community activists were scrambling to respond. "I'm still not 100 percent in the know," said Lakewood Mayor Adam Paul after a Thursday phone call with federal officials. "My main concern is local impact." Paul was reassured that the ... Read more

Content originally published by the Aurora Sentinel on December 30th, 2015. After a long and costly process and cries from veterans to “finish the damn thing,” the federal government awarded a final construction contract in the fall of 2015 to complete an over-budget veterans medical center, which will be located across from the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora. The hospital is set to open in January 2018. The $1.7-billion total means the medical center will cost nearly triple the estimates of... Read more

Content originally published by the Denver Post on December 30th, 2015 The Federal Center in Lakewood will become the temporary home this spring for up to 1,000 immigrant children fleeing to the United States from impoverished Central American countries. The facility, which will be the largest of its kind in the country, is expected to open in April and will be run by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. "It is the law for us to take care of these children, and that is what we will... Read more

Content originally published by the Denver Post on December 23rd, 2015. The budget spending and tax package that Congress approved last week includes what amounts to a massive holiday gift for millions of Americans and businesses. Some of them even deserve it. Unfortunately, Congress will hand off a $680 billion tab to future generations in the form of higher debt, undermining the value of the accomplishment. More on that in a moment. Among the worthy recipients of congressional largesse are th... Read more

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Content was orginally published by Bloomberg Government on December 14th, 2015. By DAN ELLIOTT Idaho Springs, Colo. (AP) -- Four members of Congress donned hardhats and ventured deep inside a Colorado mine Monday to hold a hearing on the urgent need to train more mining engineers. "This is weird," House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rob Bishop said as he looked around a rough-walled chamber lighted by fluorescent bulbs about 1,000 feet inside the Edgar Mine. A small audience — also weari... Read more

Content orginally published by the Colorado Springs Gazette on December 14th, 2015 In the chambers of a former gold and silver mine, Congressman Doug Lamborn oversaw a field hearing Monday on one of several bills drafted in response to the Gold King Mine spill into the Animas River near Durango. Lamborn, a Republican from Colorado Springs, said there was no better place than a mine reclaimed as a teaching and research tool to discuss a package of legislation intended to prevent contamination ev... Read more

Content originally published by The Durango Herald on December 14th, 2015 The first-ever congressional hearing inside a mine was held Monday, offering a dramatic image of the impact the Gold King Mine spill has had on policy talks. The Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources held its field hearing inside the Edgar Mine in Idaho Springs, where the panel discussed legislation aimed at training and recruiting engineers to work on mining reclamation efforts. “This is weird,” said U.S. Rep. Rob... Read more

Content originally published by KUSA on December 8th, 2015. KUSA -- Some members of Colorado's congressional delegation are reacting to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump " calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on." 9NEWS reached out to the nine members of the Colorado delegation and we've gotten eight responses so far: Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colorado) -- On Twitter, the senato... Read more