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U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today issued a Secretarial Order directing the Department of the Interior and its bureaus to continue collaborative efforts to finalize important drought contingency actions designed to reduce the risk of water shortages in the Upper and Lower Colorado River Basins and build on recent progress to complete “Minute 32X” – a long-term Colorado River bi-national cooperative agreement with Mexico.

Gov. John Hickenlooper today announced several Boards and Commissions appointments to the Board of Real Estate Appraisers, the Denver Metropolitan Area Regional Air Quality Council, the Early Childhood Leadership Commission and the Colorado Advisory Council for Persons with Disabilities.

Congressman Scott Tipton (R-CO) questioned a panel of witnesses on cyber threats posed to U.S. infrastructure by foreign actors including China. The hearing in the Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations was held on the heels of massive cyber security breaches that have compromised the sensitive personal information of millions of Americans

Today, President Bill Clinton concluded the fifth annual Clinton Global Initiative America (CGI America) meeting, which convened nearly 1,000 leaders from business, foundation, NGO, and government sectors to advance solutions that encourage economic growth, support long-term competitiveness, and increase social mobility in the United States. Attendees made 79 new Commitments to Action that, when fully funded and implemented, will positively impact the lives of more than 1.6 million people in the United States

National award-winning architecture and planning firm, KTGY Group, Inc., announced today the relocation to new office space in Denver to accommodate its rapid growth and expansion. The new office space, located within the same building at 820 16th Street, Suite 500 in downtown Denver, Colo., will provide capacity for increased client support and services.

The House passed by a vote of 263 to 162 H.R. 650, the Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing Act of 2015, a bill to protect the availability of financing for affordable manufactured housing sponsored by Rep. Stephen Fincher (R-TN). The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released guidelines in 2013 that went into effect last year to expand the range of loan products considered to be “high-cost” under the Home Ownership and Equity Protection Act. H.R. 650 makes two changes to these regulations.

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today discussed the crucial need to repair, improve, and upgrade our infrastructure to help maintain the United States’ competitiveness in the changing global economy at the “America’s Infrastructure Opportunity: Bridging the Financing Gap” conference

DENVER - September 1, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Colorado Attorney General John Suthers today announced a successful outcome for victims of Paramount Mortgage of Colorado Ltd and owner Jill M. Evans (D.O.B. 09/15/65). In early 2012, the Attorney General announced that the State Grand Jury had indicted Evans for stealing fees for mortgage loans that Evans never delivered.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - July 29, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Bank and Denver-based Mercy Housing today kicked off a partnership to provide free school supplies and ongoing financial education to families and individuals living at Mercy Housing properties in Denver and three other cities this summer.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - June 27, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Mark Udall, who serves on the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, re-introduced his Solar Uniting Neighborhoods (SUN) Act today. The bill, developed based on ideas from Udall's 2010 Colorado Energy Summit, would encourage homeowners throughout Colorado to buy into solar community projects by making them eligible for the same renewable energy tax credit homeowners receive when they install solar panels on their homes

September 20, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Mark Udall congratulated two Denver nonprofits, the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless and Volunteers of America’s Colorado branch, on receiving more than $1.2 million in competitive grant funds to provide critical housing services to homeless veterans.

EUGENE, OR - September 27, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Commercial properties can now be searched for quickly and easily on the new website of Shauna Naftel and made possible through the contribution of the amazing IDX, Inc. technology: IDX Broker software. Real estate professionals, like Naftel, have long had access to Multiple Listing Services where they can view thousands of properties. Now, thanks to the IDX solution Naftel has adopted, home seekers of the Littleton, Colorado area gain the same access to the Metrolist MLS (MTOMLS) that was once only privileged to agents and brokers. The Colorado real estate market has forever been changed, since Naftel added IDX Broker to his professional real estate website.