Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile
Articles by Greg Felt
Originally posted by @Greg Felt: I am looking for a blanket loan.I have 11 assets...6 are mortgage notes and I own 5 rental properties free and clear.I have no personal debt or business debt. I don't have a mortgage or a rent payment. I gross $7700 per month before property management or taxes on the rental properties. I can email the list of assets with any paperwork on request. The only place that will do those loan amounts is a LOCAL bank.
Argues for term limit increase
The Chaffee County Board of Commissioners recently referred a ballot measure for the November election that would increase the term limit for commissioner from two four-year terms to three. Some context for this question is helpful. In 1994, 51 percent of Colorado voters passed Amendment 17, a citizens’ initiative establishing a two-term limit for all elected county offices.
Pandemic continues as life goes on
The summer of 2021 was supposed to feel normal, moving past the COVID-19 pandemic with hope, optimism, and promise. Then the Delta variant came along and overturned any notion of normalcy. COVID-19 incidence climbed before our eyes, the healthcare system surged as workforce shortages increased, and the policies and protocols that we had imagined abandoning, such as mask wearing and quarantine, continued to get in the way of the “summer of freedom” that we had all looked forward to.
Embarking upon a journey without orders, restrictions
Significant changes are underway for our response to COVID-19. For two years we have worked tirelessly to protect the lives and livelihoods of Chaffee County residents and visitors. While we assumed that development of a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine and accompanying vaccination program would result in the end of the pandemic, we did not foresee some of the additional hurdles that would arise before the finish.
Omicron: As variant hits resort communities commissioner warns to act now
Once again, we are approaching a critical juncture in the COVID-19 pandemic. Once again, the virus has mutated and presents new risks and challenges. Once again, we are not adequately equipped to combat this evolving virus. And once again, I feel compelled to address our collective response to this situation. Here is some information that is guiding my thinking: The Omicron variant is much more contagious than Delta. Omicron has an R(0) factor that is at least several times higher than Delta’s.
Pandemic is far from over as virus cases surge in Colorado
It’s hard to fathom that it has been 20 months since our lives were dramatically transformed by the COVID-19 global pandemic. While many in our society, especially in Colorado, have chosen to move on from this traumatic experience, going back to normal despite the risk of contracting or transmitting the virus, the pandemic is unfortunately not over. If you had asked us last year what fall 2021 would look like, this is not what we would have described.
"Lives are being lost, health care system is crumbling and health care system is surging"
It’s hard to fathom that it has been 20 months since our lives were dramatically transformed by the COVID-19 global pandemic. And while many in our society, especially in Colorado, have chosen to move on from this traumatic experience, going back to “normal” despite the risk of contracting or transmitting the virus, the pandemic is unfortunately not over. If you had asked us last year what fall of 2021 would look like, this is not what we would have described.
Plan allows county to ‘actively participate’ in management
Recent articles have raised concerns about the Chaffee County Outdoor Recreation Management Plan. Unfortunately, much of this negative attention is the result of a deliberate misinformation campaign by special interest groups. In reality, this plan delivers public land managers a suite of creative strategies for addressing the growing environmental impacts of outdoor recreation.
Not the time to tempt fate
It’s hard to believe that we have been living amidst a global pandemic for over a year now. Early last March, it was clearly just a matter of time before our beloved Chaffee County experienced its own personal relationship with the pandemic. Little did we know the impact this would have on all of us locally, nationally and globally. Coordination and collaboration have been a significant driver of Chaffee County’s success in managing the pandemic.
Guest View: Change on the Dial doesn’t change COVID needs
Last Saturday morning Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment moved Chaffee County from Orange to Yellow on the statewide COVID-19 Dial. This was not due to a fundamental improvement in our public health metrics but rather was reflective of the agency “changing the markers on the field.” This change in the Dial will allow us to increase our capacities for restaurants, gyms, churches, and many other venues that have been operating under tight restrictions.
Yellow means continued work ahead for county
Last Saturday morning Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment moved Chaffee County from Orange to Yellow on the statewide COVID-19 Dial. This was not due to a fundamental improvement in our public health metrics but rather was reflective of the agency “changing the markers on the field.” This change in the dial will allow us to increase our capacities for restaurants, gyms, churches and many other venues that have been operating under tight restrictions.
Chaffee County rose to meet challenges of 2020
As we leave a uniquely difficult year behind us and look with guarded hope toward 2021, it is reasonable to temper one’s expectations. The rollercoaster ride is not over yet; 2021 will surely have its twists and turns as well. But imbedded in the new year are some real opportunities for progress: COVID-19 will continue to be the top priority for local government. However, with the first Public Health vaccine clinic completed on Dec. 28, we are now taking the offensive against the virus.
2020 rollercoaster ride not over yet
As we leave a uniquely difficult year behind us and look with guarded hope toward 2021, it is reasonable to temper one’s expectations. The rollercoaster ride is not over yet; 2021 will surely have its twists and turns as well. But imbedded in the new year are some real opportunities for progress: COVID-19 will continue to be the top priority for local government. However, with the first Public Health vaccine clinic completed on Dec. 28, we are now taking the offensive against the virus.
Education amid adversity
Our community has suffered a massive disruption from the pandemic and economic turmoil of the last three months. Throughout that time, community leaders have worked in concert to adapt to changing regulations and to work with Chaffee County Public Health to navigate the process of reopening many of our business sectors and public activities.
All 20,000 of us
For nearly 11 weeks, each weekday 30-45 community leaders have met online for a virtual roundtable to determine a collective response to COVID-19. In that setting, we have designed a coordinated best path forward for the gradual reopening of Chaffee County.
‘Please make an effort to comply’
Last week, Gov. Jared Polis previewed the “safer-at-home” COVID-19 strategy that began implementation on Monday.
We’re on Common Ground now
A year ago, voters passed Chaffee County measure 1A, a 0.25 percent sales tax measure funding forest health and wildfire mitigation, supporting working lands and addressing the growing environmental impact of outdoor recreation. Since then, a citizen committee has built out the program, Chaffee Common Ground, taking the ballot language and developing priorities and criteria by which applications for funding could be evaluated.
We’re on Common Ground now
A year ago, voters passed Chaffee County measure 1A, a 0.25 percent sales tax measure funding forest health and wildfire mitigation, supporting working lands and addressing the growing environmental impact of outdoor recreation. Since then, a citizen committee has built out the program, Chaffee Common Ground, taking the ballot language and developing priorities and criteria by which applications for funding could be evaluated.
Taking action on our wildfire risk
At a recent community meeting regarding the Decker Fire, Salida District Ranger Jim Pitts described Chaffee County as “a community that lives with fire.” While this may not be the way many of us would describe this valley, the fact that over 80 percent of our landscape is federal land, with the vast majority forested, is reason enough to seriously consider his description.
Guest opinion
At a recent community meeting about the Decker Fire, Salida District Ranger Jim Pitts described Chaffee County as “a community that lives with fire.” While this may not be the way many of us would describe this valley, the fact that more than 80 percent of our landscape is federal land, with the vast majority forested, is reason enough to seriously consider his description.
Guest opinion
At a recent community meeting about the Decker Fire, Salida District Ranger Jim Pitts described Chaffee County as “a community that lives with fire.” While this may not be the way many of us would describe this valley, the fact that more than 80 percent of our landscape is federal land, with the vast majority forested, is reason enough to seriously consider his description.
Guest opinion
When campaigning last year for the passage of county ballot measure 1A, I wrote that Chaffee County is “not like everywhere else” and that committed community action would be required to keep it that way. We face three landscape-scale challenges: forest health and wildfire mitigation; preserving our working lands and strengthening the future of agriculture; and sustainably managing outdoor recreation.
Guest opinion
In 2016, while running for county commissioner, I stated that Chaffee County needed to have “a community conversation about conservation.”The reason was change: change in the demographics of the county, the volume of tourist visitation, the development of our rural areas, the patterns of outdoor recreation, the demands on our limited water resources and the health of our natural environment.That summer there was a palpable feeling of accelerating growth. It was on everyone’s mind.
Yes on 1A
In 2016, while running for county commissioner, I stated that Chaffee County needed to have “a community conversation about conservation.”The reason was change: change in the demographics of the county, the volume of tourist visitation, the development of our rural areas, the patterns of outdoor recreation, the demands on our limited water resources and the health of our natural environment.That summer there was a palpable feeling of accelerating growth. It was on everyone’s mind.
Conservation finance goes back a long time
The discussion about conservation finance in Chaffee County goes back a long time. Trust for Public Land did polling on a traditional “open space” ballot measure in 2007. The results were favorable, but then the recession hit and no action followed.Another group conducted polling in 2011.
Envision Chaffee County is about building a future on common ground - The Chaffee County Times: Opinion
Growth, and the challenges it brings for community, have long been a topic of discussion in Chaffee County. Who hasn’t looked over one of the divides that ring our valley and thought about the changes one saw on the other side, about how we could and should do things differently when our county eventually caught the attention of the world? During the summer of 2015, that discussion became more focused.
Building a future on common ground - TheMountainMail.com: Free Content
During summer 2015, that discussion became more focused. And as visitation and pass-through traffic continued to grow in 2016, a feeling of urgency seemed to come over the county. Even as we recognized positive economic impacts from the increased activity, it was hard not to project the growth into the future and wonder where it all might lead. As a candidate for county commissioner last summer, I was met daily with comments articulating that urgency.
Building a future on common ground - TheMountainMail.com: Letters
Growth, and the challenges it brings for community, have long been a topic of discussion in Chaffee County. Who hasn’t looked over one of the divides that ring our valley and thought about the changes one saw on the other side, about how we could and should do things differently when our county eventually caught the attention of the world? kAmsFC:?8 DF>>6C a_`d[ E92E 5:D4FDD:@? 3642>6 >@C6 7@4FD65] p?5 2D G:D:E2E:@? 2?5 A2DD\E9C@F89 EC277:4 4@?E:?F65 E@ 8C@H :?
Greg Felt for commissioner - TheMountainMail.com: Letters
Dear Editor: I will be voting for Greg Felt and encourage you to consider voting for Greg because he represents the best of Chaffee County. kAm%96 7:CDE x =62C?65 E@ 2AAC64:2E6 vC68 u6=E H2D C625:?8 E96 “u:D9:?8 #6A@CE” :? %96 |@F?E2:? |2:=] p=E9@F89 x’> ?@E 2? 2G:5 7:D96C>2?[ x H2D :>AC6DD65 2?5 :?E6C6DE65 :? vC68’D E9@F89E7F= A6CDA64E:G6 :? 9:D 2CE:4=6D]k^Am kAm%96 7:CDE E:>6 x 962C5 vC68 DA62< AF3=:4=J H2D H96? 96 82G6 E96 <6J?@E6 255C6DD 2E E96 pC<2?D2D #:G6C q2D:?
‘What lies ahead’ - TheMountainMail.com: Columnist
I woke in the dark and got up and put some water on to boil. There was a layer of cold air along the kitchen floor, and it felt like I was wading through shallow water, ankle deep on the inside bend of an early morning stream. The boy was gone and I walked into his room and looked out the east window. The sky held the faintest proposition there, and my heart quickened a little with the recognition of the day.
‘Sometimes it isn’t but mostly it is’ - TheMountainMail.com: Columnist
The year had turned and time went on, the sky brilliant but cold and the air cold too. The river flowed with slush, and where it didn’t flow there was ice. The fish swam beneath the ice that overlaid the slow deep pools, and if those fish fed at all in the dark cold water there was no way to get at them, so there was no way to know whether they did or not. kAmx DE@@5 FA @? E96 D9@F=56C @7 E96 9:89H2J 2?5 H2E4965 E96 D=FD9 4@>6 5@H?
‘You’re done. Just leave it at that’ - TheMountainMail.com: Columnist
“I’m not going to tell you anything you don’t already know,” I said. “But sometimes it’s good to be reminded.” “No, no,” he said. “I agree. That’s what’s cool about old friends.
‘We’re from Colorado’ - TheMountainMail.com: Columnist
We flew into Newark, and in the dying light of the day the man sitting behind us on the bus pointed out the window and spoke again. “The island of Manhattan has two areas of schist, of bedrock, to the north and to the south. In the middle it was more like a marsh or something, so the big buildings, the high rises, are uptown and downtown, where there was a good foundation,” he said. “You can see the buildings in the middle aren’t near as tall.” kAmq6EH66? FD 2?5 E96 :D=2?5 =2J E96 wF5D@?
Learning comes from adversity - TheMountainMail.com: Columnist
The snow looked blue up there in the shade where the black trees stood, though some of it had blown off the open slopes and left the hills the color of dried grass. The sun swept across it all at a low angle, and the shadows of the spruce and the shadows of those last stems of grass were long to the west and then the north and then the east. kAm%96 ?:89ED H6C6 =@?86C DE:==]k^Am kAm“*@F H2?E D@>6 >FD:4n” x 2D<65]k^Am kAm“%92E’D 7:?6[” D96 D2:5]k^Am kAmx AFE @? D@>6 x2? %JD@?
‘Yet it stood there still‘ - TheMountainMail.com: Columnist
He said he was worried about what lay ahead, anxious, and he didn’t know how it would all turn out. “You don’t,” I said. “Nobody does.” kAmw6 D2E 2E E96 <:E496? E23=6 2?5 DE2C65 @FE E96 H:?5@H 2?5 H2E4965 E96 D?@H 72==:?8 36J@?5 E96 8=2DD] %96C6 925 366? ?@ DF?C:D6[ ;FDE 2 D=@H D9:7E :? E96 E@?6 @7 E96 =:89E F?E:= :E 925 DE@AA65 86EE:?8 2?J 3C:89E6C] %92E H2D E96 C62=:EJ @7 E96 52J]k^Am kAm“x 5@?’E E9:?< H6 2C6 8@:?8 E@ 86E 2?J 7:D9:?8 :?
‘If heaven had no work to be done’ - TheMountainMail.com: Columnist
You’d have thought we were newlyweds, an elk stew on the one burner and beans with smoked mule deer shanks on the other, she touching up the paint on a home-built countertop contraption meant to take the place of cabinets and me out there sawing firewood. The sun blazed down and the wind was in a torpor, as if hungover on a Sunday, and I came in with sawdust all over me and then dog hair from the old cur. I said I’d make a fire for the night, and she said that would be fine.
Where hunters’ paths diverge - TheMountainMail.com: Columnist
I did not have an answer for him, and he had not expected one of me. I guess it was rhetorical in a way. “How many days you going to hunt before you just pack it in?” he’d asked. “How long till you admit there’s no animals up here?” kAmx AFCD65 >J =:AD] $BF:?E65 2E E96 8C@F?5]k^Am kAm%96 DF? H2D 7F== FA :? E96 D<J 2?5 :E H2D 3C:89E[ 6G6? E96 5C:65 8C2DD 8:G:?8 @77 2 D@CE @7 8=2C6] %96 G2==6J 925 2 H9:E6 92K6 92?8:?8 @G6C E96 8C@F?5[ 3FE @77 :? E96 5:DE2?46 E92E >6D2 5@H? 3J $2?
‘Both of them leave me at a loss for words’ - TheMountainMail.com: Columnist
He had gone, but before he left he had also said he didn’t think he would want to kill any more animals. “Nobody wants to kill them,” I’d said. kAmxE H2D ?@E 6?E:C6=J ECF6 3FE :E H2D ECF6 7@C >6]k^Am kAm“x? E96 6?5 E96J 86E E96 FAA6C 92?5 2?JH2J[” x D2:5] “%96J =6E @FC E9@F89ED =625 FD D@>6H96C6 2?5 E96? EC2A FD :? @FC @H? 82>6]”k^Am kAmw6 H2D 8@?6 ?@H[ 3FE x H6?E E9C@F89 E96 4@?G6CD2E:@?] x A=2J65 :E @G6C 2D E96 D?@H >@G65 :? 2?5 DH:C=65 2C@F?5 >6[ 2?5 :E 76=E =:<6 x H2D @? 2?
Show More
loading
Actions
Is this you?
As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.Get in touch with Greg
Contact Greg, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.
Learn more about Muck Rack