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David O. Williams is the editor and co-founder of RealVail.com and has had his awarding-winning work (see About Us) published in more than 75 newspapers and magazines around the world, including 5280 Magazine, American Way Magazine (American Airlines), the Anchorage Daily News (Alaska), the Anchorage Daily Press (Alaska), Aspen Daily News, Aspen Journalism, the Aspen Times, Beaver Creek Magazine, the Boulder Daily Camera, the Casper Star Tribune (Wyoming), the Chicago Tribune, Colorado Central Magazine, the Colorado Independent (formerly Colorado Confidential), Colorado Newsline, Colorado Politics (formerly the Colorado Statesman), Colorado Public News, the Colorado Springs Gazette, the Colorado Springs Independent, the Colorado Statesman (now Colorado Politics), the Colorado Times Recorder, the Cortez Journal, the Craig Daily Press, the Curry Coastal Pilot (Oregon), the Daily Trail (Vail), the Del Norte Triplicate (California), the Denver Daily News, the Denver Gazette, the Denver Post, the Durango Herald, the Eagle Valley Enterprise, the Eastside Journal (Bellevue, Washington), ESPN.com, Explore Big Sky (Mont.), the Fort Morgan Times (Colorado), the Glenwood Springs Post-Independent, the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, the Greeley Tribune, the Huffington Post, the King County Journal (Seattle, Washington), the Kingman Daily Miner (Arizona), KUNC.org (northern Colorado), LA Weekly, the Las Vegas Sun, the Leadville Herald-Democrat, the London Daily Mirror, the Moab Times Independent (Utah), the Montgomery Journal (Maryland), the Montrose Daily Press, The New York Times, the Parent’s Handbook, Peaks Magazine (now Epic Life), People Magazine, Powder Magazine, the Pueblo Chieftain, PT Magazine, the Rio Blanco Herald Times (Colorado), Rocky Mountain Golf Magazine, the Rocky Mountain News, RouteFifty.com (formerly Government Executive State and Local), the Salt Lake Tribune, SKI Magazine, Ski Area Management, SKIING Magazine, the Sky-Hi News, the Steamboat Pilot & Today, the Sterling Journal Advocate (Colorado), the Summit Daily News, United Hemispheres (United Airlines), Vail/Beaver Creek Magazine, Vail en Español, Vail Health Magazine, Vail Valley Magazine, the Vail Daily, the Vail Trail, Westword (Denver), Writers on the Range and the Wyoming Tribune Eagle. Williams is also the founder, publisher and editor of RealVail.com and RockyMountainPost.com.
Opinion: Will Aspen end Boebert? If so, Vail (and the world) owes its ski-town rival
Boebert and friend in action at the Buell Theater in Denver on Sept. 10. Could the elitist liberal enclave of Aspen be where Republican right-wing U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s tumultuous…
Bennet, Neguse urge BLM director to slow down Utah expansion of oil transport facility
Colorado U.S. Sen Michael Bennet and U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse, instrumental last month in at least temporarily derailing a massive expansion of Utah oil trains through Colorado, are now taking aim…
Citing nearly $450,000 in legal fees, Eagle County looks to state in any future oil train fight
Two trains on Amtrak’s California Zephyr line pass each other east of Glenwood Springs on Sept. 2, 2021 (Chase Woodruff/Colorado Newsline). While Eagle County officials and environmentalists have been high-fiving…
Could Colorado keep Trump off 2024 ballot under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment?
A growing chorus of conservative scholars and former judges, including J. Michael Luttig – who helped scuttle elements of the alleged Jan. 6 coup attempt from his home in Vail – are making…
From Eastman to Noem, Beaver Creek’s ‘freedom’ fest keeps serving up red meat
Steamboat Institute favorite John Eastman was booked this week on charges of trying to subvert the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. BEAVER CREEK, Colo. – Only today’s snarling cult-of-Trump Republican…
U.S. Court of Appeals vacates federal approval of Uinta Basin Railway project
A Union Pacific oil train traveling along the Colorado River (Chase Woodruff/Colorado Newsline). Eagle County and a coalition of environmental groups on Friday won a legal challenge that at least…
Metro State professor, CU grad questions mission, reputation of Benson Center in wake of Eastman hire
The entrance to the Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization in Kittredge Central Hall at the University of Colorado Boulder (Quentin Young/Colorado Newsline). Political science professor Robert Preuhs, a…
Remembering John Fielder and his endless photographic fight to conserve Colorado’s wild place
I didn’t know photographer John Fielder was battling pancreatic cancer until I received the following email statement on Saturday from Colorado Gov. Jared Polis and then read this story in the…
‘Poster child for climate change,’ Glenwood Springs ramps up opposition to Utah oil trains
A train stuck in the mud in Glenwood Springs this past spring due to rapid snowmelt and a mudslide (City of Glenwood Springs photo). Elected officials in Glenwood Springs are…
Oil-train opponents look to expiring Moffat Tunnel lease for leverage with state, Union Pacific
The Moffat Tunnel near Winter Park (Chase Woodruff/Colorado Newsline photo). State officials since last spring have quietly been reaching out to communities along Colorado’s main east-west rail line to gauge…