Before joining Western Progress, Tom Kenworthy spent 15 years covering the West as a national correspondent for The Washington Post and USA Today. For most of that time he specialized in public lands, natural resource and energy issues. He began his newspaper career in 1975 with the Lowell (Mass.) Sun, moved on to The Washington Star shortly before it folded in 1981, and then the Baltimore Evening Sun. At the Washington Post he covered state politics and government in Maryland, Congress and congressional politics, and the Interior Department. He has lived in Golden, Colorado since 1995. He is a graduate of Cornell University.