Rae Solomon
Reporter, Rural and Small CommunitiesEmail: rae.solomon@kunc.org
I am the Rural and Small Communities Reporter at KUNC. That means my focus is building relationships and telling stories from under-covered pockets of Colorado.
Working in public radio is a huge passion that dates back to my youth in the suburbs of NYC, where I was surrounded by a wealth of great public and free-form radio stations. I love the immediacy of radio and I pride myself on quickly gathering information and finding ways to frame stories for maximum impact and engagement.
Before coming to the radio light, I was a licensed architect, practicing in Los Angeles, New York and Colorado. I launched my radio career as an avid volunteer KGNU, community radio for Denver/Boulder.
When I’m not at work, you can find me hiking, camping, fussing over my houseplants and doing strange art projects with my kids.
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The program, designed to help agricultural workers find housing, often leaves workers without a place to live because their income is considered too high to qualify for affordable housing.
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Front Range development is starting to spill onto the plains, threatening one of largest untouched expanses of prairie habitat.
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Jerry Godbey and Donna Williams would have lost their 102 year old home in the Alexander Mountain Fire, if not for a resource-intensive firefighting strategy.
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Federal restrictions increasingly disqualify many agricultural workers from the affordable housing designed to serve them, leaving developments with vacant units and workers without homes.
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Days into a robust disaster response, affected communities in Northern Colorado are starting to settle into a new routine.
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Over the last 30 years, concentrations of toxic metals like zinc and copper have doubled in some of Colorado’s high mountain streams. Researchers blame climate change.
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New research says climate change has caused toxic metal pollution to double in some Colorado rivers and mountain streams. It's complicating efforts to clean up abandoned mining sites.
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Colorado scientists trying to control the spread of wheat stem sawfly have just had a major breakthrough.
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A new collaboration between the Sand Creek Massacre Foundation and the Amache Alliance is educating young people about their history on Colorado's southeastern plains.
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Clean energy jobs are exploding in Colorado and nowhere faster than the Eastern Plains. Wind energy is a big reason.