Kirk Siegler reports for NPR, based out of NPR West in California.
Siegler grew up near Missoula, MT, and received a B.A. in journalism from the University of Colorado. He’s an avid skier and traveler in his spare time.
In Longmont, oil and gas companies have raised close to a half million dollars toward an effort to defeat a ballot measure that would ban hydraulic fracturing from within the city’s limits.
US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says the United States is experiencing its third biggest wildfire season on record, and with a blaze still burning out of control in Rocky Mountain National Park, the Secretary noted at a forest health summit in Denver Friday the season is far from over.
A new poll [.pdf] shows nearly three quarters of registered Colorado Latino voters plan to back President Obama in November, while also revealing greater than expected enthusiasm among the key voting block in the state this year.