Subject: Ken Salazar

• Towering Imbroglio

  March 13, 2007

• Scout's Honor

  December 19, 2006

• More Messages: The Towers That Be

  December 11, 2006

• The Languishing Wilderness

  September 28, 2006

• This Day In Colorado Rockies History

  November 13, 2007

• A Hot Summer on the Roan Plateau

  June 10, 2008

• Ken Salazar: scintillating

  August 27, 2008

• Ken Salazar: scintillating

  August 27, 2008

• Marilyn Musgrave and Ken Salazar: no longer bipartisan buddies

  October 16, 2008

• Ken Salazar wants windmills in the ocean, but first he'll have to save the Interior Department

  April 2, 2009

• So far, Obama's snubbed Colorado for his cabinet -- but why go for Napolitano?

  Barack Obama had no sooner been declared the president-elect when the speculation started: Just which Coloradans would join his cabinet? The name of Federico Pena, an early supporter, was floated -- despite the fact that he's already done two turns in the cabinet, for Bill Clinton, and has more influence as a key advisor (not to mention the opportunity to earn a living here at home). Ken Salazar was rumored as a likely pick for Interior, even though he's a valuable vote in the Sen

  November 26, 2008

• Building for the future: Who's next for 1100 Bannock?

  For lease: the luckiest building in Denver. Four years ago, this space at 11th Avenue and Bannock Street was home to the Ken Salazar for Senate campaign -- a race that Colorado's then-attorney general won easily when the Republicans lined up behind Peter Coors, whose candidacy fell flatter than a day-old glass of beer. Next occupant of 1100 Bannock: Bill Ritter's gubernatorial campaign. Although it took a while for Democrats to acknowledge that the former Denver District Attorney was reall

  November 28, 2008

• Denver Blogs: She's alive!

  We're scouring the web for Denver-related stuff that blows our mind, or at least 15 seconds of our time. Send your tips via Frisbee.Well, at least we know Marilyn Musgrave is alive ... unless there's some Weekend of Bernie stuff going on in Georgia. (Colorado Pols and Channel 7)Mayor Hickenlooper could be in line for an Obama appointment, according to rampant, sourceless speculation (the best kind!).  (Colorado Independent)Who will fill Senator Ken Salazar's giant hat in 2010? Will they loo

  December 2, 2008

• Wake-Up Call: Mr. Salazar goes to Washington?

  Suddenly, all the political pundits are talking about a Salazar going to Washington. Not Ken Salazar, who'd apparently rather stay in his Senate seat than move to the Cabinet (but might be up for a future opening on the Supreme Court, where he'd be the first Latino justice), but his brother, John. And the talk isn't just of John Salazar possibly becoming Secretary of Agriculture, of course, but what would happen to his third district congressional seat if he does. Democ

  December 4, 2008

• Denver Blogs: What the hell is a Sportaccord? Who cares? We're hosting!

  We went and harpooned us some links from local blogs, as we do every day. Send anything you spear to joe.tone@westword.com.No idea what the Sportaccord is, but some important people seem to think it's important. And Denver's hosting! (Denver Business Journal, via 5280).Ken Salazar was slightly disingenuous in a recent press conference when... wait, Ken Salazar owns a Dairy Queen? How 'bout a free Blizzard, Senator? (Face the State)Ritter shuts down Bush's Colorado "roadless rule," which is good,

  December 11, 2008

• Wake-Up Call: The week ahead, December 15-21

  While the Obama cabinet carousel -- Ritter! Salazar (Ken)! Salazar (John)! Michael Bennet! Salazar (Ken, again)! -- continues to go 'round, with a name thrown out each week (although now, with Ken Salazar back in the ring for Interior, we're on repeats) -- Colorado's top Dems will gather at the Governor's Office to help make Obama's win official, as the state's nine presidential electors cast their ballots. Then it's back to business -- or the lack thereof, which will become more co

  December 15, 2008

• Denver Blogs: What a Salazar move east means to Colorado

  The more we read local blogs, the more we want to start wearing giant hats. Send your worthy reads to joe.tone@westword.com.What happens if Mr. Salazar goes to Washington? (Colorado Pols)Colorado Republicans: The only debt-free group in America. (Colorado Independent)A typically unabashed Broncos homer is rooting for the Chargers this weekend. Hey, at least it's not the Raiders. (Mile High Report)Where will Bill Ritter end up next? (Face the State)

  December 15, 2008

• Environmental group rips Obama's choice of Ken Salazar as Interior Secretary

  Local coverage of Barack Obama's selection of Colorado Senator Ken Salazar as the next Secretary of the Interior has mostly been rah-rah, sis-boom-bah. Take the Denver Post editorial "Salazar a Wise Choice for West, Nation." But as noted in a National Public Radio story, assorted environmental groups are considerably less than thrilled. Among those NPR-piece participants painting Salazar as a crony of "very traditional, old-time, Western extraction industries" was Kieran Suckling of Tucson's C

  December 17, 2008

• Wake-Up Call: Who's on (the) first?

  A few weeks ago, Diana DeGette, Colorado's representative for the 1st Congressional District, had lunch with Ken Salazar, the Colorado senator who'd early on been rumored to be in the running for a position in the Barack Obama cabinet. "No, it's not going to happen," he told her. Yesterday, it happened: Obama named Salazar as the next Secretary of the Interior. The rumors that Salazar was back in the mix surfaced a few days ago -- and that's when DeGette's phone started ringing. As the senior

  December 18, 2008

• New York Times worried by Ken Salazar's niceness

  If you, like me, stepped out of the media bubble over the holidays, you may well have missed a curious New York Times editorial about Obama-cabinet-bound Colorado senator Ken Salazar, published under an unusual headline: "Is Ken Salazar Too Nice?" Too bad the answers provided by the piece aren't as straightforward as this rhetorical question.

  January 5, 2009

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, January 5 edition

  Today in Cafe Society: • Twelverestaurant introduces its third menu. • Spice Boys to close shop, go all online. • A Milking It review of Blueberry Monster Crunch. Today in Backbeat Online: • A fresh start for Eric Eyl's Mile High Makeout. Today in The Latest Word: • The Rocky Mountain News jumps the gun on shared-helicopter story. • Michael Bennet was on the media's senate-pick radar all along. • The New York Times is worried about Ken Salazar's niceness. • The Denver Post co

  January 5, 2009

• Salazar hearing a lovefest among chums

  You might expect a confirmation hearing for a new Secretary of the Interior to be tough going, given the multiple scandals and vast challenges facing the agency after years of Bush administration bumbling and plundering. After all, the Department of the Interior manages a fifth of the land in the country, much of its strategic energy resources and natural wonders, a sizable hunk of offshore oil reserves, and much, much more. You'd expect a lot of sticky questions about endangered species,

  January 15, 2009

• The resurrection of Tom Strickland

  The knock on Tom Strickland, during his two unsuccessful runs for the Senate, was that he was a (shudder) "lobbyist-lawyer." Not as appealing, it turned out, as folksy horse-vet Wayne Allard, whose basic charm seemed to be an almost complete absence of anything that might be described as a fresh idea. Yet  Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has named Strickland as his chief of staff -- a move that suggests the new Secretary is quite possibly serious about "cleaning up the mess

  January 22, 2009

• Wake-Up Call: An end to musical chairs

  Ken Salazar has been sworn in as Secretary of the Interior. Michael Bennet is now a U.S. senator. Tom Boasberg is taking over as superintendent of Denver Public Schools, promising to "accelerate reform." That leaves just one more chair to fill -- the U.S. Attorney's seat vacated by Republican Troy Eid -- and a tidy way to tie up a loose end. Last week, then-senator Salazar and Mark Udall sent three names to Barack Obama as their choices for the top federal attorney in the state. We're betting

  January 23, 2009

• Ken Salazar extinguishes a Bush fire sale

  Ken Salazar, the new Secretary of the Interior, who spent much of last week traipsing around the Denver area declaring that there's a new sheriff in town, has taken what he calls "an important first step" in restoring balance to federal public lands policy -- pulling the plug on a controversial sale of oil and gas leases on lands in close proximity to spectacular parks and wilderness areas in southeastern Utah. In a February 4 teleconference with journalists, Salazar announced that he was ord

  February 4, 2009

• Denver Blogs: Because starting Saturday, we'll need alternatives more than ever

  Our daily cruise through the local blogosphere in search of buried treasures. Send tips. Oh, the irony: Rocky Mountain News Tweets its own death. (Twitter) Face the State advocates for medical marijuana, and in doing so refers to the "back alleys of the black market to obtain their marijuana." Umm, guys, it's pot. (Face the State) Ken Salazar's disdain for Bush's oil-shale rules is almost as expansive as his hat collection. (Colorado Independent)

  February 26, 2009

• Best Slip of the Tongue by a Colorado Politician

  March 24, 2005

• Denver Blogs: Is Ken Salazar hiding a drill under that giant hat?

  Be vewy, vewy quiet. We're hunting bwogs. Send tips. Chill, baby, chill: Environmentalists are freaking out over Ken Salazar's recent comments about drilling in Alaska. (Colorado Independent) The commie bastards at the state Supreme Court have upheld a controversial property-tax increase. Can you guess what Jon Caldara thinks? (Face the State) Broncos: "And while we're at it, let's get rid of that tight end of ours, too!" (Broncotalk)

  March 17, 2009

• Denver Blogs: Somebody buy Ken Salazar a sandwich

  See, we told you there was no money under there! Our daily blog round-up is here. Send tips this way. According to financial disclosure statements, Ken Salazar is not hiding bundles of money underneath that giant hat. (Colorado Independent) Introducing the Jay Cutler bath mat! (The Decider) The battle over Pinnacol spills into the streets outside the Capitol. (Colorado Pols)

  April 13, 2009

• Denver Blogs: A welcome flip-flop

  Will Kobe kill the Nuggets? Our daily perusal of local blogs. E-mail us more. A local blogger picks the Lakers, gets killed by his readers, flip-flops. That's the spirit! (Denver Stiffs) Natural gas: The "cleanest" fossil fuel? The industry would like you to think so. (Colorado Independent) District attorney and GOP Senate-hopeful Martin Beeson comes out swinging against Ken Salazar. (Face the State) Meet the fake Iraq vet guy who duped 5280 -- and others. (5280)

  May 19, 2009

• The Message

  Are You Positive?

  October 21, 2004

• Roll Call

  Colorado's Senate wannabes vote from the heart and gut.

  August 5, 2004

• Quagmire Without End, Amen

  Truth is the first casualty of war -- and Columbine.

  March 4, 2004

• Quagmire Without End, Amen

  Truth is the first casualty of war -- and Columbine.

  February 26, 2004

• Minor Irritants

  A declaration from independents.

  July 18, 2002

• Homeless for the Holidays

  December 5, 1996

• Advice and Dissent

  Does the city have to keep hiring the same big-bucks, well-connected lawyer as a consultant?

  October 10, 1996

• First 100 days? Ken Salazar gives himself an A

  We're No. 1: Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar addressing DOI employees. Probably no other member of the Obama Cabinet has racked up as many frequent-flier miles over the past three months than former Colorado Senator Ken Salazar. As the new sheriff in town at the Department of the Interior, he's been taking his agenda on the road -- presiding over offshore lease sales in New Orleans, visiting Indian schools in the Dakotas, studying global warming in Alaska and drought in California, denoun

  April 29, 2009

• The Statue of Liberty and Ken Salazar's crowning achievement

  Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy This morning, Secretary of the Interior (and former Colorado Senator) Ken Salazar got the full-bore show-biz treatment when he joined the Today show's Matt Lauer in the crown of the Statue of Liberty, which will reopen for the first time since 9/11 on July 4. Only problem: The low ceiling prevented Salazar from rocking his trademark cowboy hat. Watch the clip above.

  May 8, 2009

• Wake-Up Call: Salazar needs to stay put

  Timing is everything. Early on, as president-elect Barack Obama started filling his Cabinet, Ken Salazar's name kept surfacing -- but so did word that what the first-term senator and former Colorado Attorney General ultimately wanted was a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, and in the meantime, he was perfectly content in the Senate. To balance out his picks, however, Obama tapped Salazar for the Department of the Interior, where he now has his hands full undoing eight years of Bush administratio

  May 12, 2009

• "Sheriff" Salazar rounds up some artifact rustlers

  In his first few weeks as Secretary of the Interior, former Colorado Senator Ken Salazar was fond of sporting his cowboy hat and declaring that there's a new sheriff in town -- even though the work at hand didn't lend itself to quick draws, as explained in my feature "The Zen of Ken." But now the sheriff has come up with some actual rustlers in the Four Corners area. At a press conference June 10 in Salt Lake City, Salazar was joined by various Justice Department, FBI and Interior officials

  June 10, 2009

• Is meth fueling artifact thefts?

  Meth addict, artifact thief -- or both? On June 10, Secretary of the Interior (and former Colorado senator) Ken Salazar announced the indictment and arrest of 24 individuals suspected of trafficking in illegally obtained artifacts in the Four Corners area. But who found these items in the first place? One theory: meth addicts. An article in Grand Junction's Daily Sentinel argues that the artifact/meth link is a dirty little secret among law-enforcement types. Chuck Wheeler, vice president of B

  June 19, 2009

• Ken Salazar names new chief for scandal-plagued MMS

  As we reported several moons ago in a Westword feature entitled "The Zen of Ken," one of Ken Salazar's first official acts as Secretary of the Interior was to visit the Lakewood office of the Minerals Management Service and vow to clean up the place. The obscure but vital agency, which collects billions in royalties for oil and gas leases offshore and on federal lands, had been rocked by charges involving cocaine use, graft, sexual liaisons with energy company execs, sweetheart deals and fault

  June 26, 2009

• Ken Salazar pushing for "more balanced" hard rockin'

  Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar No law is truly written in stone. Not even those tablets Charlton Heston brought down from the top of Mount Hollywood in The Ten Commandments, which looked suspiciously like slabs of heavy cardboard. But some laws, as they age ungracefully, begin to resemble big cement blocks. Take, for example, the General Mining Law of 1872. Over the years various environmental interests have taken a run at reforming the law, which governs much of the mineral extraction

  July 14, 2009

• A sunny day for Secretary Solarczar, but a slog ahead?

  ​Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar was back in Colorado today, August 4, touring a Longmont solar panel company as a way of pushing the Obama administration's vision of a clean energy economy. But that vision, which involves collecting abundant solar power from a procession of solar farms set up on public lands, might be a little soggy in spots. Not that the plant Salazar visited today isn't beacon of light in a bad economy. Abound Solar is hardly the biggest operator in the field, b

  August 4, 2009

• Denver Blogs: Sibling rivalry

  Ken Salazar never lets his brother John pal around with him and his friends.​Links. Click them. And enjoy your weekend. The Salazar Bros. are not on the same page on climate change. Also, Johnny didn't clean his room, so why should Kenny have to? (5280) Is it me, or is this like a trail guide for cougar hunters? (Mile High Mamas) The fans have spoken: Brandon Marshall is a douche. (Mile High Report)

  August 28, 2009

• Wake-Up Call: Romanoff on the range

  ​"What's he doing in the Senate?" "Why, it's an honorary appointment. He's an honorary stooge." Frank Capra's classic Mr. Smith Goes to Washington was on TCM yesterday afternoon -- just the thing to warm up the set (and the sofa) before Jake Cutler returned to Mile High, particularly given all the buzz that Andrew Romanoff, former Colorado Speaker of the House, might jump into the U.S. Senate race, challenging Michael Bennet in the Democratic primary for the seat that he's held for all o

  August 31, 2009

• Ken Salazar takes a step forward by booting Interior's royalties program

  October 1, 2009

• Ken Salazar: No more horsing around

  Famous wild stallion Cloud, star of three documentaries--and until recently targeted in a BLM roundup.​In a teleconference with reporters today, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar declared that his department's wild-horse management program "is simply not working" and proposed a new way of dealing with the surplus of horseflesh that is devouring millions in taxpayer dollars. Secretary Salazar wants to head 'em up and move 'em out -- not to slaughterhouses, as some horse advocates have

  October 7, 2009

• Salazar moves forward -- and backward -- on oil shale leases

  ​For decades, energy companies and the federal government have tinkered with ways of trying to extract the vast hydrocarbon fuel reserves buried in rock in western Colorado and eastern Utah. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar still has lots of questions about the process -- whether the current oil shale technology will ever be commercially viable, how much water and energy will be required to squeeze the kerogen out of the ground, what kind of mess will be left behind. Today, Salazar a

  October 20, 2009