Dave Weigel– Slate blogger, original Tea Party analyst, champion tweeter, former Journolist contributor and onetime American Independent News Network colleague– landed in Colorado Tuesday to report from the circus that is Centennial State 2010 campaign politics.…
Ken Salazar’s Department of the Interior has allotted $86.2 million in federal stimulus funds to Colorado so far, $14.6 million of which is going to Four Corners’ Mesa Verde National Park. Mesa plans to spend the money in part on two renewable energy projects and is opening bids on those projects in June and July.
Telecoms and Internet users are girding for new battles over net neutrality rules.
Democratic U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar calls it “not letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.”
That has become Salazar’s way of dealing with a president who has become as much an obstructionist as an advocate.
As U.S. Attorney General-designate Michael Mukasey plays dumb on what constitutes torture, the lessons of Lewis Welshofer Jr. grow fuzzier.
By now most Americans probably don’t remember Welshofer. Those of us who covered his trial for torturing to death
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You worry that if Congress doesn’t stop introducing resolutions condemning people for their comments about the Iraq War, it will run out of time to actually do something about that misbegotten conflict.
First, the Senate had to debate the…
Anyone who questions U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar’s role in Colorado politics should take a look at the state’s Fourth Congressional District.
Maybe Salazar is not a Godfather in the traditional sense, but he makes offers you can’t refuse.
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Wilderness politics has changed over the years as the obvious candidates for Congressional protection have been protected and less prominent places come under consideration. Most of the lands protected first were mountainous areas in national forests, many of which were…
The commercials which sponsored Wednesday night’s Republican presidential debate featured a legless vet, who lost his limbs in Iraq, and a grieving mom, whose son was killed in the war. Both told viewers that the United States is succeeding…
Passing legislation for federal funding of stem cell research “is the right thing to do” even in the face of a near-certain presidential veto, according to U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar (D.-Colo.).
The Senate today took up S.5 with 40…
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