Editor: Federally, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) earmarked $50 billion for transforming rural health care, and $1 billion is earmarked for Colorado. However not all is as it seems, as is often the case with the current administration, as over $1 trillion was cut from health care, mostly related to Medicaid cuts. What is gained from this award is not close to repairing the damage caused by the OBBBA.
Editor: Four weeks ago the Gunnison Times posted the GOP’s letter to the editor on bringing to light the fact that Colorado’s PUC is appointed by Governor Polis.
Editor: Our family recently lost one of our sweet ladies at the age of 89. She was buried at the Powderhorn cemetery where our family all lived since the 1800s.
Editor: You published a letter last week authored by local GOP leaders criticizing Colorado’s Clean Heat Plan. This letter leans heavily on a claim that electrifying homes will inevitably saddle working families with $30,000–$70,000 in conversion costs.
Editor: I am writing to correct several factually incorrect statements included in Mark Reaman’s letter to the editor, published on Dec. 24, 2025 in the Gunnison Country Times regarding the “Clean Heat Plan.”
Editor: I am writing in response to Jim Starr’s Jan. 8 letter to the Gunnison Country Times.
A series of recent Bureau of Land Management (BLM) oil and gas lease sales across Colorado, and a rushed “replacement sale” of the same parcels, continue to demonstrate the fiscal and social irresponsibility of the Trump Administration’s effort to cheapen and giveaway public lands to the fossil fuel industry.
Editor: As I sit here writing this, it is the fifth anniversary of the January 6, 2021, attack on our capitol.
Editor: High Country Conservation Advocates (HCCA) invites all ages to join us, in partnership with Western Colorado University and the Trailhead Children’s Museum, for our second screening of the 21st Annual Backcountry Film Festival.
Editor: As we begin a new year, the Gunnison County Republicans are excited to kick off the 2026 election season with energy, optimism and a commitment to educating voters.
Ben Nighthorse Campbell, the former Colorado U.S. senator and congressman who served first as a Democrat and then as a Republican, died of natural causes last weekend at his ranch in Ignacio, Colorado at age 92.
This morning, a light rain is falling, fog is lifting, coffee is brewing and the year 2025 is gradually slipping away into the feathery realms of memory.
Acting on behalf of President Trump, Energy Secretary Chris Wright recently issued an order that will force one of the three aging coal-burning units at the Craig Generating Station to continue operating into 2026, likely costing customers tens of millions in added expenses.
Editor: Thank you, Jon Matuszczak and Joe Dix, for your letters in regard to the failed ballot box science experiment of Proposition 114.
Editor: I want to begin by acknowledging something we can all agree on, compassion is a strength.
Editor: Your state congressman, Larry Don Suckla, delivered a letter this month to the Colorado Public Utilities Commission urging the commissioners to reverse their latest electrification mandate.
Editor: I was encouraged to learn that Hope Scheppelman, a candidate for U.S. Congress in Colorado’s 3rd District, has signed the pledge to introduce or co-sponsor the U.S. Term Limits Constitutional Amendment. At a time when trust in Washington is at historic lows, that commitment matters.
Editor: As 2025 comes to a close, Living Journeys extends heartfelt gratitude to the Gunnison Valley community. Your generosity continues to make essential cancer support services possible for local individuals and families.
Editor: I would like to thank the Gunnison-Crested Butte Association of Realtors for helping my family and I achieve our dream of becoming first-time homeowners. Thank you so much for presenting us with a grant to help with costs of buying a home.
The Crested Butte Snowsports Foundation (CBSF) wrapped up a successful month of fundraising this November, hosting three well-attended events that brought the community together in support of youth snowsports in the Gunnison Valley.