Stories written by davidoDavid 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.
Editor’s note: A version of this story first ran in the Vail Daily on May 20, 2019. Colorado Sens. Cory Gardner and Michael Bennet are setting partisanship aside and battling…
May 21, 2019Read More
Former Eagle County state Rep. Diane Mitsch Bush, a Steamboat Springs Democrat, is exploring running again for Colorado’s 3rd U.S. Congressional District seat held by Republican Scott Tipton since 2011.…
May 21, 2019Read More
Editor’s note: This post was updated at 3:10 p.m. MT, Monday to include a comment from a Tipton spokesman: Republican U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton, the congressman who represents the western…
May 20, 2019Read More
Editor’s note: This blog post was update on Sunday, May 19, to reflect the issuing of a Winter Storm Warning by the National Weather Service for the Vail Valley and…
May 16, 2019Read More
As Colorado moves forward with its plans to adopt a Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) standard to reduce smog and combat climate change, a coalition of automakers, petroleum interests and business…
May 14, 2019Read More
Rocky Mountain Gun Owners Executive Director Dudley Brown earlier this month told RealVail.com he’s looking to take down a dozen Democratic lawmakers with recall elections following the Colorado legislative session…
May 13, 2019Read More
Walgreens recently launched its groundbreaking new Feel More Like You program for cancer patients in 100 of its Colorado stores, including the location at 15 Sun Road in Avon. The…
May 10, 2019Read More
On the same day as yet another deadly Colorado school shooting Tuesday, RealVail.com’s front-page story in the Vail Daily reported on efforts by Republicans and gun-rights groups to recall Democrats…
May 8, 2019Read More
Somehow there’s nothing quite so sad for skiers and mountain dwellers as seeing a substantial winter’s worth of snowpack rapidly melt away into our surrounding streams and rivers, which is…
May 7, 2019Read More
The Colorado Senate on Wednesday passed the Climate Action Plan to Reduce Pollution, or HB 1261, that codifies into law a 2017 executive order by former Gov. John Hickenlooper seeking…
May 1, 2019Read More