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Biden-Harris Administration Invests $266 Million to Help Rural Business Owners, Farmers and Ranchers
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30, 2023 – U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA is awarding $266 million in loans and grants to agriculture producers and rural small businesses, including Colorado, to make investments in renewable energy and energy efficiency improvements that will lower their energy costs, generate new income, […]
Next PACT Act Deadline: Health Care Enrollment for Veterans Who Deployed to Combat Zones
WASHINGTON — Until 11:59 p.m. local time Sept. 30, 2023, Veterans who deployed to a combat zone, never enrolled in VA health care, and left active duty between Sept. 11, 2001 and Oct. 1, 2013 are eligible to enroll directly in VA health care. This special enrollment period gives Veterans who served in Iraq, […]
Colorado Awarded $826.5 million from Biden Administration for Broadband Expansion
The money, part of the federal Infrastructure Act of 2021, was more than state officials expected. It’s enough to get 99% of households to “adequate” internet service. A yearlong effort by the Colorado Broadband Office to analyze which households in the state have adequate internet and which don’t paid off big time when the […]
Regional Collaboration Yields 83 New Homes
Southeast Colorado Enterprise Development (SECED), Southern Colorado Economic Development District (SCEDD), 4Points Funding, and Bywater Development LLC held groundbreaking for High Prairie Homes, a southeast Colorado workforce housing development project, on May 25 at 1:30 p.m., Las Animas, Colorado, at Memorial Field (just east of the John Rawlings Museum). Housing in the southeastern […]
Governor Polis Deploying Colorado National Guard to Washington, D.C. for Presidential Inauguration
DENVER – Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed an Executive Order activating members of the Colorado National Guard to assist with the 59th Presidential Inauguration in Washington, D.C. “Colorado will proudly do our part, joining 40 other states across our great nation in sending members of our National Guard to the nation’s capital for our country’s […]
