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Salazar Recognized on Global Warming Issue

The Environmental Defense Action Fund, lobbying arm of the group Environmental Defense, has put Colorado Sen. Ken Salazar on its "Ten Senators to Watch" ...

Salazar Brothers Team Up to Find Balance in Energy Development

Western Colorado has seen the extractive industry come and go, so U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar, D-Colo., and his brother, U.S. Congressman John Salazar, D-Manassas,...

Conflicts Converge Over Oil Shale Trust Fund

Once upon a time during the oil-shale boom day in northwest Colorado, the federal government put some mineral-tax revenues into the Anvil Points Oil...

Et Tu, Brute?

Sen. Ken Salazar was only one of six Democratic Senators who supported Alberto Gonzales for the role of Attorney General, but now Salazar is...

Salazar, U.S. Senate Push for Debate on Immigration Reform

Sen. Ken Salazar joined Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and democratic Senators Edward Kennedy, Patrick Leahy, and Robert Menendez in a news conference today...

New VA Clinic, Not a Moment Too Soon

Sen. Ken Salazar (D-CO) announced today the establishment of a new community-based Veterans Administration health care clinic in Burlington that is expected to serve...

Sen. Salazar Makes a 180 on AG Gonzales

Sen. Ken Salazar was a witness for the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the nomination of Judge Alberto Gonzales for U.S. Attorney General...

Bush’s Budget Defies Logic

The military funding ballooned under the proposed 2008 budget presented by President Bush, warranting cuts in other departments. Hence, the common folk in Colorado...