As the Yuletide approaches in the US followed by year’s end, the joy of the Latino celebration of these holidays is evident. This includes the sounds of villancicos, the stagings of the Posadas, accompanied by the season’s Hispanic gastronomical delights such as buñuelos, tamales, lechon asado, turrones and countless other delicacies from the different Latin [...]
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Last week, I pondered whether President Obama should fire Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar. If you notice, this past week, Salazar has not been in front of the camera or making many public statements. He’s no longer directly in the line of fire and probably in part because of his clumsy performance with cliched statements [...]
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Note: This blog post was meant to go online on Friday, but I couldn’t log on for the past few days. With the BP oil spill dominating the news and the growing frustration with the Obama administration and its handle on this disaster, I felt compelled to comment about Secretary of Interior Salazar. Back in [...]
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Today Colorado Governor Bill Ritter announced that he won’t seek a second term in the rocky mountain state. Given that announcement, there has been much speculation that Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar may leave the Obama administration to run for governor. Ken Salazar’s brother John, who currently serves in the Congress, is reportedly telling [...]
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Seneca has been on hiatus, but he’s back with some great observations about Latinos in the Obama administration and in the federal government in general: Obama has already demonstrated that he is the first US President to appoint more Latinos in his administration than any other President before him. His crowning achievement was to get Sonia [...]
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Interior Secretary Salazar came out in strong favor of offshore renewable energy yesterday and also will extend public comment for plans for new drilling, allowing activists to push for more or less oil exploration off of the coasts. Secretary Salazar is not ruling out offshore drilling entirely, but he did scrap a plan that the [...]
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