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 farm-to-school movement is out to revolutionize the humble school lunch with fresh food grown on local farms. But the path from cropland to cafeteria is full of complicated twists and turns. A new wave of federal funding is trying to smooth the way. -
In an overwhelming vote Friday, the U.S. Board on Geographic Names made it official: Mount Evans will be renamed Mount Blue Sky, a name significant to some area tribes.
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A record number of Colorado homeowners appealed their property valuations this year. Much of that increase was due to a hot housing market. But homeowners in rural, mountain regions have more reason than most to question their property valuations.
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The biggest source of climate-warming methane in the U.S. is animal agriculture. America's biggest cattle feedlot operator is funding new research, with motives beyond reducing greenhouse gases.
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The biggest source of climate-warming methane in the U.S. is animal agriculture. America's biggest cattle feedlot operator is funding new research, with motives beyond reducing greenhouse gases.
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With fruit this good, it’s only natural to have a little bit of Palisade peach anxiety in the run-up to the season. But this year, circumstances have only intensified that feeling among those who are prone to it.
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Dacono welcomed two new city council members to town hall on Monday evening, when Michelle Rogers and Tony Cummings took their seats after beating out two incumbents who were recalled by voters last month.
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Dacono voters decided to recall two embattled city councilmembers in a special election Tuesday, according to preliminary unofficial results released by the city clerk.
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En febrero, el gobierno de Nicaragua expulsó a 222 presos políticos y los envió a los Estados Unidos. Cuatro de esos ex-prisioneros viven en el condado de Summit. Ahora se están adaptando a la vida en pueblos en las montañas de Colorado con la ayuda de la comunidad nicaragüense local.
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In February, the repressive Nicaraguan government expelled 222 political prisoners and sent them to America. Four of those ex-prisoners are living in Summit County. Now they’re settling into life in the Colorado mountains with help from their fellow countrymen.
