Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is leaving the cabinet in March

President Obama has one more position to fill in his second-term cabinet. Following the departures of Hillary Clinton, Leon Panetta, Timothy Geithner, and Hila Solis, sources in the administration have confirmed that his Interior Secretary, Ken Salazar, will be leaving. "Salazar is expected to broadly announce his departure Wednesday. He has told President Barack Obama that he intends to leave his job by the end of March," reports Allison Sherry of the Denver Post. (Salazar is a former Senator from Colorado.) The AP and The New York Times also have sources pointing to the late-May departure. Salazar, as Sherry reports, wanted to be closer to Colorado because he wanted to spend time with his family: 

But the pull of family obligations — he and his wife are primary caretakers of their 5-year-old granddaughter who has autism and is enrolled in a special school — was too great to commit to four more years, Salazar's office said.

His days in Washington are long. Some weeks he spends 16 hours a day traveling from one far-flung location to the other — from some pristine causeway in California to the Hurricane Sandy-ravaged New Jersey coast.

Read more at The Atlantic Wire.