WHEAT RIDGE - Like any teenager, Kevin McCoy has lots of questions. So, when he found about the chance for a super long distance call, he was excited. "Being able to talk to an astronaut at the International Space Station, that's something that not many people get to do," McCoy said. He is a junior at Wheat Ridge High School which was selected by NASA for a video conference with Commander Shane Kimbrough aboard the ISS. "I think part of it, we're fascinated by space," Griff Wirth, Wheat Ridge Hi... Read more

Northglenn, Colo. – Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter (CO-07) held the second Congressional App Challenge, a nationwide event that allows students to compete by creating and exhibiting their software application, or “app,” for mobile, tablet, or computer devices on a platform of their choice. The 7th Congressional District had a total of seven teams participate – two from Northglenn High School and five from Arvada High School. One team from Northglenn created a virtual reality app designed to give... Read more

On Election Day, nine states will vote on ballot proposals permitting the recreational or medical use of marijuana, setting up what could be the biggest advance yet toward pot legalization and deepening tensions between state and federal drug laws. Voters in Arizona, California, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada will consider legalizing recreational use of marijuana. In Florida, Arkansas and North Dakota, voters will decide whether to permit marijuana for medical purposes. In Montana, voters will ... Read more

With pot on the ballot in nine states, the big winner in next Tuesday's election could be America's legal cannabis industry. By 2020, legal market sales are expected to surpass $22 billion. And for states struggling with budget shortfalls, that extra revenue would be clearly welcome. Voters in five states — Arizona, California, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada — will decide whether to legalize recreational marijuana for adults. Medical marijuana is on the ballot in Arkansas, Florida, Montana, and... Read more

Congressman Ed Perlmutter was named the Elected Official of the Year at Jefferson County Economic Development Corporation’s (Jeffco EDC) 10th Annual Luncheon. Rep. Perlmutter has lived in Jefferson County his entire life. He attended Jefferson County public schools and then worked construction with his father during the summers while in law school at the University of Colorado. He chose to raise his family in the district where his three daughters also attended Jefferson County Public Schools. H... Read more

Hackers hijacked the website of Jim Kreinbrink’s online marketing consultation business seven years ago, redirecting potential clients to an online pharmacy and undermining the online credibility of his business. A dreaded warning that the website of his Louisville company, Hyper Dog Media, was untrustworthy began appearing in Google search results. When a client first alerted him to it, Kreinbrink didn’t know why, he said. But Kreinbrink knew web programming and dug into his website’s coding. A... Read more

Ongoing accusations by the Obama administration that the Russian government should be blamed for hacking the computers of presidential campaigns is reviving calls by federal lawmakers for improvements to internet security. Among them is Colorado Republican U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner, who pledged to introduce a bill imposing stiff sanctions on Russian cyber-criminals. “Russia’s interference with American democracy is a direct threat to our political process and it may only be the tip of the iceberg,”... Read more

Amid growing scrutiny over its sales practices, Wells Fargo is abandoning its longstanding practice of calling its more than 6,000 U.S. branches “stores.” “Our customers tend to call our locations branches already, as places where people come to be with us and where we can serve their financial needs,” spokeswoman Bridget Braxton told the Observer on Friday. “Shifting to this terminology better reflects the way our customers think about us.” The decision comes as San Francisco-based Wells works ... Read more

It’s a little more than a year after a horrific Flight For Life Helicopter crash, and the Summit County community is still slowly picking up the pieces. But Julie Kelble, an emergency room nurse at St. Anthony Summit Medical Center and chairperson of the Flight For Life Mahany Heroes Park committee, hopes a new park will help everyone begin to heal. “It’s really a place of respect and honor,” Kelble said. “For (the committee) it’s been an avenue for us to heal on the inside, and now we want that... Read more

If the bipartisan “buyer’s remorse” Congress feels for passing a popular bill for victims of Sept. 11 over the president’s veto came from a lack of information, then three members of Colorado’s congregation who opposed it should be applauded for at least doing their homework. Voting against the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, or JASTA, was a hard vote in an election year — but it was the right one. Yes, it’s easy to imagine the negative campaign ads that could be developed. No one wan... Read more