December 17, 2008
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Reaction to Salazar pick in NYT- Environmentalists Wary of Obama’s Interior Pick . John M. Broder. Oh god! Salazar showed up wearing a cowboy hat. Makes you sick. Well everyone should hold their breath and count until the “lesser” nominations.
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Salazar decribed as a “moderate” and a “broker”- From WaPo. Obama Names Salazar As Secretary of Interior. By Juliet Eilperin, Phil Rucker and Dan Morgan. That is so offensive to hear him described as “a fifth-generation Coloradan whose family settled in the West before the United States’ founding and has ranched and farmed on the…
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Yellowstone, bison to be featured on postage stamp- AP story on the new postage stamp series.
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WaPO says environmentalists and “food groups” reacted positively- Obama to name Vilsack for Agriculture. By Philip Rucker and Dan Morgan. Washington Post Staff Writers. Vilsack was a popular governor of Iowa. He has been a major politician. His expertise in agriculture seems to come more from being a governor than from intimate knowledge of policy.…