My sincere and respectful congratulations for the fine article on the Gunnison election. As an aged near-native of the area who still carefully reads the Gunnison Country Times, I can verify your descriptions and revelations, and appreciate your deft manner of educating us all on the local background issues. I found your descriptions to be fair and balanced as well — difficult to manage in such a diverse environment.
I’ve often reflected on the lack of minorities in our local schools and communities decades ago. Now there is a larger non-white minority group, and Black Lives Matters in Crested Butte.
Local bookstore owner Arvin Ramgoolam’s remarks at the end are very true. When your very existence — physically, financially, spiritually and emotionally — is dependent on the actions and support of the other humans you live with in an isolated community, you experience being part of a tapestry that must consider and support the well-being of all inhabitants. The second-home owners are impoverished by not earning and enjoying membership in this tapestry.
Thanks so much for doing this careful reporting over the past year.
Diane Curlette
Boulder, Colorado
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Fair and balanced.
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