Veterans Green Jobs’ Jordan Latva installs sheet metal, isolating a pipe that transports hot furnace gases. The work is done before blowing additional insulation material into the attic of a low-income home.
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Thanks to training from Veterans Green Jobs, Justin Heldenbrand now rates new residential construction for energy efficiency. He works for the Berthoud-based company EnergyLogic.
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EnergyLogic CEO Steve Byers (left) at a meeting in the company’s Logical Living Center, a ’60s era ranch home the company uses for training.
If you want to see stimulus dollars at work, take a visit to the Denver-based nonprofit Veterans Green Jobs. Two and a half years ago, the organization that trains veterans in things like home energy audits occupied just three office cubicles. Today, it’s situated in a 90,000 square-foot office with 85 full-time employees.
The political wrangling continues over a new congressional district map for Colorado, after a bi-partisan group charged with the task of drawing up a new map reached an impasse. It’s one of the topics our media partners and Colorado Public Television and Colorado Inside Out are discussing. Here’s host Raj Chohan.
Lawmakers are taking Good Friday off as the legislative session moves into its final weeks. But that’s not stopping Republican members of the bipartisan committee on redistricting from renewing their calls to finish the job after hitting an impasse.