[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 5]
[Senate]
[Page 6423]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       TRIBUTE TO BOB SILBERNAGEL

 Mr. UDALL of Colorado. Madam President, I wish to pay tribute 
to Bob Silbernagel, who retired in March after a 40-year career working 
for Colorado newspapers, including the last 18 years as the editorial 
page editor and voice of the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel. The 
Colorado Press Association wisely named Mr. Silbernagel the 2013 
``Newspaper Person of the Year,'' and the Colorado Associated Press 
Editors and Reporters Association awarded him the first place award for 
editorial writing in 2012. Over his years in journalism, Mr. 
Silbernagel received dozens of other awards for editorial writing, 
column writing, news reporting, and online content from the Colorado 
Press Association, the Colorado Associated Press Editors and Reporters, 
Cox Newspapers, and the National Associated Press Editors.
  Born in Madison, WI, Mr. Silbernagel received his journalism degree 
from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1973, after which he worked 
as a political reporter, environmental writer, business writer, city 
editor, and bureau reporter. He authored three books, most recently 
``Troubled Trails: The Meeker Affair and the Expulsion of Utes from 
Colorado'' in 2011; ``Dinosaur Stalkers, Tracking Dinosaur Discoveries 
of Western Colorado and Eastern Utah'' in 1996, and ``Parks & Trails, A 
Guide and History for the Colorado Riverfront Project in Mesa County'' 
in 2004.
  Upon his retirement from the Daily Sentinel, Jay Seaton, publisher of 
the newspaper, aptly described Mr. Silbernagel as ``not a purveyor of 
sound bites or catchy gotchas'' but as ``a careful journalist whose 
logic and dispassionate presentation of undisputed facts [made] his 
editorials not just compelling but illuminating.'' I could not agree 
more. Coloradans are well served by such honorable journalists as Bob 
Silbernagel.

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