The Salazar Farm and Ranch at Rincones near Manassa and its pioneer family operators were among 21 Colorado families who have owned and operated their farm or ranch for 100 years recognized during the 23rd Annual Centennial Farms Celebration on Friday, Aug.28. U.S. Rep. John Salazar attended along with his brother, LeRoy, who oversees the operation near Manassa founded in 1888 by Francisco Esteban Salazar, their 89-year-old mother, Emma, and their families.

Ken Salazar recently sat down with Hispanic Magazine to discuss the new role he’s playing in government, his personal and familial relationship with the land and how he intends to change the game for Latinos in conservation.

Rep. John Salazar, D-Colo., always loves to come home, he told about 200 supporters at a fundraiser barbecue at the family ranch southeast of Manassa Saturday afternoon.

Our U.S. Congressman John Salazar, D-Manassa, voted yesterday to withdraw troops from Iraq by April 1st.

"We cannot continue to stay the course of a failed policy," Salazar said. "It is time for the Iraqis to begin taking responsibility for their own security and the future of their country."

Listen to Ken Salazar's preview to the State of the Union Address in Spanish and in English. Full Text in Spanish and in English.

Colorado's Ken Salazar delivered his preview address to the State of the Union in both English and Spanish, the first time that has ever occurred. In the speech, Salazar gave the Democratic view of the challenges facing the nation, saying there would be a vote in both the House and Senate on President Bush's Iraq policy as well as the passing of comprehensive immigration reform. The intolerant Republican Representative Tom Tancredo was irked about the Democrat's Spanish-language preview speech. Congressman Xavier Becerra of California, assistant to the speaker, will deliver the official Democratic response in Spanish to President Bush's State of the Union Address on Jan. 23, 2007.

Colorado Sen. Ken Salazar, who grew up in a Spanish-speaking household in the state's rural San Luis Valley, will deliver the Democrats' first-ever Spanish-language preview address to the president's State of the Union. ¡Órale!

War, agriculture, energy, health care, education, transportation and immigration are the top issues for Colorado residents, says U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar, D-Colo., as he prepares to serve in the 110th Congress next month.

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Rep. John Salazar, a San Luis Valley potato farmer and hunter, is a hard-line supporter of the Second Amendment.

U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar, D-Colo., a potato farmer from Los Rincones, endorsed Gail Schwartz for state Senate District 5. Schwartz, a Democrat, is seeking to wrest the seat held by Republican Lewis H. Entz, a Hooper potato farmer who is running for his second full term in the senate.

A letter from House and Senate Democratic leaders urging President Bush to begin withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq this year did not get support from Sen. Ken Salazar and his brother, Rep. John Salazar, both Colorado Democrats, on Monday.

Sen. Ken Salazar returned to his alma mater, Centauri High, Saturday to discuss the Summitville Mine cleanup, Alamosa River restoration and the Sangre de Cristo National Heritage Area.

Two years ago, Rep. John Salazar, D-Colo., narrowly won the 3rd Congressional District race, but this year, the 3rd District race is quiet by comparison, with Salazar using his 19 months in office to compile a campaign war chest of more than $1.6 million from large corporations and industry groups.

Two years ago, Republicans were elbowing each other to run in Colorado's 3rd Congressional District and the party helped to raise more than $1.6 million to secure it. Today, Democratic Rep. John Salazar is in the seat and Republican Scott Tipton is campaigning against him largely without the help of national Republicans, whose priorities now lie with securing incumbents in uncertain districts and saving money from what they say is a long shot, even in a Republican-leaning district.

Rep. John Salazar was one of just 36 Democrats who voted late last year for a tough Republican-backed House bill that would make being in the country illegally a felony and proposed construction of the fence. His younger brother, Sen. Ken Salazar backs a Senate plan that would give law-abiding illegal immigrants a chance to earn U.S. citizenship. Yet, they insist that there's no split between them on how the nation should deal with illegal immigration.

"In my home state of Colorado, the first non-natives to explore our lands were the Spanish. They arrived nearly 500 years ago, and left their mark on the American Southwest and Colorado. Their presence is reflected in the names of my state and its cities, rivers, and mountains, and even in the food we eat. My own family migrated to Colorado in the 1850sóalmost 20 years before Colorado became a state. We came from northern New Mexico and Santa Fe--a city we helped found over 250 years earlier, before there was a Plymouth Rock or a Jamestown. We pioneered the settlement of Colorado's San Luis Valley, where we have farmed the same land for generations." read more...

Faith and family have been the focal point of 83-year-old Emma Salazar's life. "She says we are her heroes. She is our hero," said Mary Lou Salazar, Mrs. Salazar's daughter-in-law and wife of U.S. Rep. John Salazar.

It's an election year and freshman U.S. Rep. John Salazar, D-Colo, has already collected $1.1 million in contributions for his expected run for re-election, as of Dec. 31.

Salazar stays course toward the middle as he takes a look back at his first year in office.

Wrapping up his first year in Congress representing Colorado's 3rd Congressional District, U.S. Representative John Salazar is already preparing for the work ahead in 2006 and lovin' every minute of it.