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Obama makes Arch project, Metro East connection, a “priority” — sets 2015 deadline, will “move heaven and earth” to finish sooner

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

U.S. Interior Sectretary Ken Salazer in front of Post-Dispatch Platform. Eddie Roth/Post-Dispatch

U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar in front of Post-Dispatch Platform. Eddie Roth/Post-Dispatch

U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar was in town yesterday afternoon, ostensibly to talk about federal spending for job creation and economic recovery. But it turns out he had monumental plans,…

Championing urban national parks

By Editorial Board

Laurie Skrivan/Post-Dispatch

St. Louis is on today’s itinerary for Ken Salazar, the former Democratic senator from Colorado whom President Barack Obama appointed as the nation’s 50th Secretary of the Interior.

It’s a stop in a series of low-key visits the secretary is…

Tuesday editorial: Gutting the Endangered Species Act

By Editorial Board

Let’s face it, the Endangered Species Act can create quite a burden. If your goal is to build dams or open federal land to mining, logging and oil drilling, all those threatened animals and plants just get in the way.
Congress…

Obama makes Arch project, Metro East connection, a “priority” — sets 2015 deadline, will “move heaven and earth” to finish sooner

Championing urban national parks

Tuesday editorial: Gutting the Endangered Species Act

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