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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.
As winter returns, Vail remembers a true legend of snow sports: Jake Burton
It’s fitting that winter returned to the Vail Valley on the day news broke that snowboarding giant Jake Burton, who called Vail his home away from his primary home of…
State, local providers pushing for more health insurance choice in Vail Valley
Editor’s note: A version of this story first appeared in the Vail Daily: While policymakers are celebrating a big drop in Colorado’s individual health insurance prices for 2020, they’re also…
Cold smoke: Busting out of Colorado’s ski-town booze rut on EagleVail’s Green Mile
In Colorado, alpine skiing and alcohol seem to go together like Saint Bernards and brandy barrels. In t-shirt shops from Aspen to A-Basin, snow riders can buy boozy souvenirs from…
Impossible to avoid impeachment debate on Veterans Day
This Veterans Day it’s hard for me to separate the politics from the policy of war during the ongoing House impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump’s withholding of military aid…
Snow spigot shuts off through third week of November as more ski areas set to open
For everyone grumbling about going straight from summer into winter last month, with record amounts of October snowfall, you got your wish in November. The snow spigot has shut off…
In rare show of unity, all 9 Colorado lawmakers united behind H-2B visas
Editor’s note: A version of this story first ran in the Vail Daily: There are very few issues that unite all nine members of Colorado’s congressional delegation (see CORE Act,…
Donovan blasts Trump, Tipton for CORE Act opposition
Editor’s note: The CORE Act passed a full floor vote in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday, 227-182, with five Republicans voting yes and one Democrat voting no. The…
Yard-sign troll invokes Trump in Vail Town Council election
Vail’s campaign yard-sign-gate just took a Trumpian turn as someone trolled the trolls. Earlier this month, Denver attorney and Vail resident Karen Perez was the subject of “vote no” signs…
More early snow stokes the question: ‘Could Vail open early?’
It’s dumping again Monday morning in EagleVail, right at the base of Beaver Creek ski area, and another half a foot or so of new snow has fallen since Sunday…
Eagle County hosts state meeting on tough new mobile home park regs
Editor’s note: A version of this story first appeared in the Vail Daily. Eagle County Friday will host a Colorado Division of Housing meeting for mobile-home owners renting space in…