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Link to the Original Article The cost of living in Teller County and other rural parts of Colorado’s Seventh Congressional District was at the forefront of a presentation by U.S. representative Brittany Petersen on Oct. 5 at the Ute Pass Cultural Center. The presentation and subsequent question and answer period were the focus of the “Eggs and Issues” breakfast, sponsored by the… Read more »

Link to the Original Article Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport said Wednesday it will fully shift from the use of toxic leaded aviation gasoline to unleaded fuel at its facility within four years. If the Jefferson County airport meets its target, it will beat by three years a federal mandate that piston engine aircraft switch to unleaded-only fuel by 2030. The… Read more »

Link to the Original Article Government shutdown would delay implementation of new bonuses, further burden prison staff. All staff members at the Federal Correctional Complex in Florence, the most secure federal prison in America, will receive a 25% retention bonus. The so-called “supermax” prison has been working through staffing difficulties for years, with high turnover… Read more »

Link to the Original Article The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded Chaffee County nearly $4 million in grant funds to build and operate a new waste transfer station and materials recovery facility for recycling and organic waste. The grant award is part of the agency’s newly created Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling funding opportunity.  “The project is… Read more »

Link to the Original Article DENVER (KDVR) — U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen talks about fentanyl and her new bill aimed at overdose deaths on this week’s episode of “Colorado Point of View.” Pettersen, the Democrat elected last year to represent Colorado’s 7th Congressional District, is an advocate for ending the opioid epidemic, with opioid abuse personally hitting her family. Her… Read more »

Link to original article A bill U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen plans to introduce in Congress will allow hospitals across the country to get reimbursed for distributing opioid overdose-reversal treatments to people at risk for an overdose.  Pettersen, a Lakewood Democrat who is vocal about her mother’s experience recovering from an opioid addiction stemming from a pain-management… Read more »

The original Article can be found here DENVER — Advocates across the country are hoping for change when it comes to preventing overdose deaths. "This is a public health emergency that demands a public health approach. Doubling down on the worst ideas of the drug war, which are incarceration and criminalization, has never worked. That will only increase overdose deaths," said Lisa… Read more »

Link to the Original Article Colorado Congresswoman Brittany Pettersen says 90% of fentanyl in Colorado and across the United States wasn't smuggled across the border but brought in by U.S. citizens at airports and seaports or delivered by the U.S. Postal Service. She says the government should screen all mail for fentanyl.  "Contrary to the rhetoric that people see at the… Read more »

Link to Original Article On Monday, 171 members of Congress signed a letter opposing the inclusion of the EATS Act in the 2023 farm bill. Four members of Colorado’s Congressional delegation — U.S. Reps. Joe Neguse, Diana DeGette, Brittany Pettersen and Jason Crow — all signed the letter sent Monday to Rep. Glenn “GT” Thompson, R-Pa., chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture,… Read more »

Original Article Here The newly minted congresswoman has targeted Medicaid and treatment reforms. In one of her first major speeches since she arrived in Congress, U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen stood before the House and talked about her mom. “Like so many Americans, my mom has struggled with an opioid addiction,” Pettersen, a former state senator who now represents central Colorado,… Read more »