Kirk Siegler
Correspondent at NPR
NPR national desk correspondent covering rural America and the Western US. I no longer use twitter regularly.
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kuow.org | Kirk Siegler
Trump ally Michael Boren expected to be confirmed to lead the U.S. Forest ServiceMichael Boren, an ally of President Trump, is expected to be confirmed by the Senate to run the U.S. Forest Service. It's an agency he's frequently fought with as a wealthy, private landowner.
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ctpublic.org | Kirk Siegler
SOMOS CONNECTICUT is an initiative from Connecticut Public, the state’s local NPR and PBS station, to elevate Latino stories and expand programming that uplifts and informs our Latino communities. Visit CTPublic.org/latino for more stories and resources. For updates, sign up for the SOMOS CONNECTICUT newsletter at ctpublic.org/newsletters.
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kpbs.org | Kirk Siegler |Liz Baker
LOS ANGELES — Diana Lieb was already on the fence about rebuilding after the Eaton Fire swept through her Altadena, Calif., neighborhood and burned down her house on Jan. 7. There were the still-unresolved insurance claims and economic uncertainty: Could she even afford to rebuild? There was also the lingering trauma of going back: Her twin daughters' school was also destroyed.
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mprnews.org | Kirk Siegler
Back in the New Deal era, the Northwest's mighty rivers were dammed, allowing barges to cheaply bring grain from the wheat fields of eastern Washington to the coast for export. Today, at ports along the Snake River, trucks unload grain to five-story-high bins along the banks. Most barges that pull up to the terminals carry the equivalent of 150 semitrucks worth of grain downriver to Portland.
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mainepublic.org | Geoff Brumfiel |Andrea Hsu |Kirk Siegler
Reporters have been looking at federal agencies and employees impacted by DOGE cuts from food inspectors to nuclear scientists to firefighters, and the broader effects of the restructuring efforts. Copyright 2025 NPR
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AUDIO: Colorado is under a voter-mandated deadline to reintroduce wolves. On Morning Edition, we ask folks there if the state’s mountains are now too crowded for the animals to survive: https://t.co/fQq2jyGHgd
Listen: on Weekend Edition, take a trip with us into the remote Idaho wilderness - by plane. https://t.co/0N8aPxXZrs
has to be one of the closest federal wilderness to a major US metropolitan area, if not the closest? https://t.co/PQtMqJz8Sn
