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SquareState.net - Front Page (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Today was another day in which a number of news articles caught my eye. They warrant additional context, especially the connections between some of them. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has been working behind the scenes to talk with what the corporate media likes to term "centrist"/"moderate" Democratic Senators regarding health care. He will continue to try to convince CorporateDems...
First Read (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
From NBC's Ken Strickland In what appears to be the administration making a a last-minute push to curry votes for health care, Vice President Joe Biden is up there lobbying as is former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle . Interior Secretary Ken Salazar , a former centrist U.S. Senator has also been spotted in the hallways, but he says he's just up there to see friends and that he's not really lobbying...
Bob McCarty Writes (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Thanks to President Barack Obama, who seems to be doing everything he possibly can to destroy the nation’s fossil fuels industries, there may be a solar-powered, made-in-Japan, robotic rickshaw in your future. The latest attack on “Big Oil” came today when Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar used this news release today to announce his department [...]
ecopolitology (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Cape Wind officials praised Massachusetts Congressman Ed Markey for his letter to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar sent earlier this week,
Bearing Drift (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
If you haven’t noticed during the busy campaign, gas prices are going up again: In the meantime, the public comment period on lease-sales ended, and apparently it is overwhelmingly in favor (2-1) of opening our shores up for exploration and drilling, but Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar has yet to release those comments. In the written information request, Vince Haley of American Solutions said...
TalkLeft (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Update : Stupak passes, only 1 present vote (Shadegg)because the anti-choicers said they'd score a present vote as a no vote. Final vote: 240 to 194, 1 present. Who are the 64 Dems who voted for the wire coat hanger amendment? The roll call vote is here . Shame on Colorado Rep. John Salazar, brother of former Sen. Ken Salazar. Update : Reps. Diana DeGette and Louise Slaughter, co-chairs of the Congressional...
News Unfiltered (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
After nearly 100,000 members of the public called for protecting the Grand Canyon from mining, a Pew Environment Group ad (http://www.pewminingreform.org/pdf/WishAd.pdf) today urged Congress to support legislation that would permanently ban new mining claims on public lands surrounding the park. Under the antiquated mining law of 1872, more than one thousand uranium mining claims have been staked...
San Francisco Sentinel (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
By Seán Martinfield Sentinel Editor and Publisher Photo by Lynn Imanaka Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar recently joined Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, bipartisan members of the National Museum of the American Latino Commission and bipartisan Members of Congress to announce the establishment of the Commission and discuss future activities related to the study of the potential [...]
The Humane-Rights-Agenda Blog (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
http://tinyurl.com/ygn2bye Obama Official: Immigration Reform Will Be Introduced Once Votes to Pass It Are Assured By Diego Graglia, FI2W web editor The Obama administration will push for immigration reform in Congress once Democrats are certain they have enough votes to pass it, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Tuesday in Washington. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. (Photo: Mike Disharoon/Flickr)...
The Caucus (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Ken Salazar, the Interior secretary, signed the construction permits this afternoon on the grounds of the memorial with Harry E. Johnson, the memorial project's chief executive.
NEI Nuclear Notes (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
The first of three days of hearings about the Boxer-Kerry climate change bill in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (chaired by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.)) went the way opening days often do. The Senators kicked things off with what were essentially position papers, with Sen. Boxer highly favorable to the bill and ranking member Sen. James Inhofe (R. Okla.) highly unfavorable. (Inhofe...
Sierra Club Compass (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Get ready for some fun this week. Starting tomorrow are the hearings on the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. Tomorrow's hearing features secretaries Ken Salazar, Ray LaHood and Steven Chu,...
Cold Flute (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
If it burns, it's a fuel. If it's ethanol, it's not new. So I had a problem when BusinessWeek had this headline a few days ago: ENERGY SECRETARY TELLS CEOS NEW FUELS COMING. Well, I'm not sure that's precisely what Interior Secretary Ken Salazar or Energy Secretary Steven Chu said at a meeting in North Carolina. I hope not. Actually, BusinessWeek isn't totally at fault. They simply ran an AP story...
Daily Kos (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Back in earlier February, in one of his first actions on taking office, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced that the cancellation of oil and gas leases on more than 100,000 acres of public land in Utah, the first indication that Salazar might pleasantly surprise us. He's continuing in that vein. Yesterday, he called for an investigation a last-minute regulatory change by the Bush administration...
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
If Bill Thompson could draw up the ideal endorsement from President Obama, it probably wouldn't have been worded as Obama delivered it last night . "A great city comptroller, our candidate for mayor, my friend Billy Thompson is in the house," is the entirety of what Obama said, which Thompson then decided to interpret as an endorsement. But even if it wasn't really an "endorsement,"...
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