Tag: Ken Salazar
Obama’s lasting legacies in the West
This story originally appeared in High Country News.
Eight years ago, President-elect Barack Obama wanted Colorado Sen. Ken Salazar to be his Interior secretary. David...
5 takeaways from Clinton’s pick of Colorado’s Ken Salazar to lead...
Hillary Clinton today announced Ken Salazar will lead her White House transition team, drawing cheers from some and jeers from others.
The job means Salazar...
Coloradans favor clean energy, federal regulations and national parks
A bipartisan poll from Colorado College debunks stereotypes about Coloradans' attitudes toward federal land and energy production.
It's easy to get caught up in the...
Hickenlooper offers full-throated support for Hillary Clinton
In a leafy neighborhood on the outskirts of Denver last night, supporters for Hillary Clinton crowded the living room of former U.S. Sen. Ken...
Statetap: Durango Herald backs Udall
"The choice is clear. Udall should be re-elected. Gardner may accurately reflect the thinking of his party, or at least of its big donors and activist base, but Udall far better represents Colorado as a whole."
First-ever public lands auction for solar power plants bombs
On the home turf of former Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, the Colorado lease auction was intended as a showcase for the renewable energy push.
As Salazar Heads Back to Colorado, Friends and Foes Reflect on...
Like any good -- or bad -- Secretary of the Interior, Colorado’s Ken Salazar will leave Washington in a few weeks with a long list of both friends and enemies. Thing is though, they’re pretty much the same friends and enemies he had when he got there.
Obama in Golden seeks to rev up swing-state campaign
GOLDEN-- On his eighth trip to swing-state Colorado this election year, President Obama came to this scenic town in battleground Jefferson County to energize and recruit ground troops to help his campaign win the state's nine electoral college votes, just as he did in 2008.
Salazar: ‘Better days ahead’ but fire-torn American West not out of...
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar visited his native state Monday where he declared there will be “better days ahead” but, he also warned, Colorado and the nation have not seen the end of fire season.
Bacon to bring conservation effort home with plan that would protect...
Billionaire hedge-funder Louis Bacon is donating a conservation easement on 90,000 acres bordering the San Luis Valley, which will provide the foundation for the proposed new Sangre de Cristo Conservation Area that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is in the process of establishing.