Ken Salazar ain't no dummy

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will visit Alaska on Monday, with Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Interior Appropriations Subcommittee. It will be Salazar’s third visit to Alaska and comes at the request of Murkowski, a Republican, as an opportunity to examine the state’s resources and discuss energy development and public lands issues. The three-day visit is described in a news release as an opportunity for the policymakers to take good look at Alaska and its stores of energy. It includes a tour of a North Slope drilling facility and the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, meetings with North Slope community leaders and a visit to Barrow’s new Indian Health Service hospital. A trip to Denali National Park also is planned...more

Salazar is getting the hell out of the extremely hot weather and heading to cool Alaska...but on official business you understand.

Westerners should note who the Dem's have put in charge of Interior approps. - Jack Reed from Rhode Island. There's a lot of grazing, mining, timber and wolves in Rhode Island don't you know.