Community Resources and Housing Development Corporation (CRHDC), a non-profit committed to providing pathways to housing resources and asset building opportunities for people in Colorado, is pleased to announce that it has won the 2012 Affordable Housing Finance Magazine's Readers' Choice Award in the category of Best Rural Project for its farmworker housing development, Alta Vista de la Montaña in Delta.

Alta Vista de la Montaña is a 41-unit agricultural community that allows for families to reside together in larger units.

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Colorado Congressmen Cory Gardner, Scott Tipton, Mike Coffman and Doug Lamborn are asking for clarification on the goals and activities of the EagleNet Alliance, a government entity intended to "bring high-speed Internet to every public school in Colorado through public-private partnerships."

In a strongly worded letter to Lawrence E. Strickling, the assistant secretary for communications and information at the Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration, the four members ask why EagleNet is overbuilding existing networks at the expense of longstanding rural telecom providers and why truly underserved communities are being ignored.

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