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.
Scientists have reached an agreement with the Town of Snowmass Village to continue unearthing ice age fossils at a reservoir site this May.
Teams from the Denver Museum of Nature and Science say the town has agreed to suspend a planned expansion of the reservoir so the exploration can continue once the snow melts.
Last fall, a bulldozer driver working at the site stumbled upon what would turn out to be a bounty of rare, ice age fossils and countless plants, some believed to be more than 130,000 years old.
Union protests following the labor battle at the Wisconsin legislature are spilling into other states. In Colorado, union leaders and workers staged a rally Tuesday outside the state capitol where public employee unions protested proposed cuts to their benefits.
Several hundred state employees are expected to descend on the state capitol at noon Tuesday for what organizers are billing as a rally in support of the Wisconsin union workers.
At a two-day education summit wrapping up Wednesday in Denver, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said collaboration between teachers unions and school administrators is one of the biggest hurdles in front of the Obama Administration’s education reform efforts.
Thousands of educators from forty states are here for the summit that the Obama Administration is billing as a first-of-its-kind meeting between union leaders and administrators.
Colorado's public schools will likely bear the biggest brunt of the cuts if the Governor Hickenlooper's budget is approved by the legislature. Those cuts come at a time when many traditionally under-performing Colorado schools are starting to win praise for turning things around.
