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Lawmakers pry open the market a bit more for cell-phone service, broadband

Mar 8, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

Bipartisan legislation allowing cell-phone and broadband service providers better access to municipal markets won approval in the House Tuesday. House Bill 1193, sponsored in the lower chamber by Reps. Jon Becker, R-Fort Morgan, and Tracy Kraft-Tharp, D-Arvada, should translates to faster and better upgrades to cell-telephone service. From a press statement by the House GOP: The bill streamlines broadband…
Intel exec tapped to lead Colorado’s strategy to expand rural broadband

Mar 4, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Gov. John Hickenlooper on Friday named Tony Neal-Graves, a former vice president of Intel Corporation, as executive director in charge of Colorado’s Broadband Office, the governor’s office announced. Neal-Graves will be responsible for steering expanded availability of broadband internet capabilities by leveraging relationships with public and private entities in communities across the state, the…
Stephanie Piko launches bid for mayor of Centennial

Feb 14, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Centennial City Councilwoman Stephanie Piko announced Sunday she’s running for mayor of the suburban city. “As the next mayor of Centennial, I will continue to build on Centennial’s great foundation by implementing the plans that are in place to better connect our citizens,” Piko said at Centennial Center Park, surrounded by family and supporters. Piko…
Broadband office to seek faster rural internet service

Feb 2, 2017

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Mike McKibbin

Establishing a broadband office to help bring reliable, accessible and affordable internet access to rural Colorado won’t cost state government very much in terms of ongoing costs, and the economic benefits could greatly help local communities and the state, according to officials in the governor’s Office of Information Technology. The broadband office was announced by…
Colorado Technology Association aims to steer state into the future

Jan 18, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Colorado’s technology industry is booming, and Andrea Young couldn’t be happier. Young, the president and CEO of the Colorado Technology Association, a trade organization that represents more 300 companies and counts some 15,000 people involved in its network, said in a recent interview with The Colorado Statesman that she’s excited about the prospects for the…
‘It’s going to be interesting’: State Senate prepping for Hickenlooper PUC appointment confirmations

Jan 17, 2017

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John Tomasic

Gov. John Hickenlooper and state Senate President Kevin Grantham, R-Canon City, say the process is already in motion to launch Senate confirmation hearings for the governor’s two recent appointees to the state’s Public Utilities Commission. Grantham seems to be looking forward to it. “I think we’ll do it sooner rather than later,” he told The…
In State of the State, Hickenlooper digs back into fiscal thicket

Jan 13, 2017

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John Tomasic

Gov. John Hickenlooper likely had to rewrite the State of the State speech he delivered Thursday, or at least rethink it. He surely thought he would be addressing a Legislature controlled by Democrats working in concert with a Clinton administration in Washington. Things didn’t turn out that way. Instead, the governor as speaking to the…
Rep. Scott Tipton backs regulatory exemptions for small Internet providers

Jan 11, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton of Cortez is supporting a bill that lands close to home for rural Colorado: a fast connection to the world wide web. Tipton, a Republican, backs the Small Business Broadband Deployment Act, introduced last week by Rep. Greg Walden, a Republican from Oregon. The U.S. House passed the bill unanimously to the Senate…
Crowder, Casias vie for Senate District 35 targeted seat

Oct 6, 2016

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John Tomasic

They’re practical men from a politically moderate district. But the Senate seat they’re battling for is a top partisan prize. Larry Crowder and James Casias are locked in a tight contest for a Senate district seat that may determine the balance of power at the state Capitol. It’s a race charged with ideological power, even…
Sonnenberg OK with lack of attention at Capitol to agriculture, but pushing two bills he says really matter

Mar 11, 2016

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Ramsey Scott

Lawmakers haven’t introduced many agricultural bills this legislative session, but that doesn’t mean farmers and ranchers haven’t been paying close attention — or that they’re upset about the lack of acknowledgement. Jerry Sonnenberg, R-Sterling, chair of the Senate Agriculture, Natural Resources and Energy Committee, said Colorado’s farmers and ranchers work better when they’re left to…