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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With 66% of the vote counted, Democratic Rep. Yadira Caraveo was narrowly leading Republican State Rep. Gabe Evans 50% to 48%. -
The potential footprint of Denver’s Initiated Ordinance 309 to ban slaughterhouses extends beyond city limits. -
Sen. Hickenlooper meets with Northern Colorado egg and dairy producers to address avian flu concernsAvian flu cases in Colorado have led to farms losing entire flocks of hens in places like Weld County. One egg-producing facility in the area, Opal Farms, paid $10 million to sanitize their facility after losing their birds. -
Ancient rainstorms may have sculpted the red planet, similar to the monsoon rains that helped shape the Southwest’s landscape -
Help may be on the way. State lawmakers recently formed a committee to work on legislative solutions to the lack of cell service in parts of the state. Committee members hope to introduce three proposals during next year’s legislative session. -
Enthusiasm for apple picking has never been bigger in Northern Colorado. But nabbing a spot at a pick-your-own orchard is not for the faint of heart. -
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. -
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. -
Federal restrictions increasingly disqualify many agricultural workers from the affordable housing designed to serve them, leaving developments with vacant units and workers without homes.
