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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.
Why spend $2 billion on Olympics when Colorado roads, schools are crumbling?
Even though I’ve worked as a journalist three times at the Winter Olympics – twice for the actual organizing committee’s internal news service in Vancouver and Torino — I tend…
School security ‘front of mind’ locally in wake of Parkland, Florida, massacre
The bag checks ended nearly a year ago, there are no longer armed security guards on campus, but at Battle Mountain High School in Edwards there is a lingering sense…
Social activist Menconi jumps into race for 3rd Congressional District
Add former Green Party U.S. Senate candidate and former Eagle County Commissioner Arn Menconi to the list of candidates trying to unseat Republican U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton, who represents part…
EagleVail’s Shiffrin boosts U.S. alpine medal haul with silver in combined
By winning a silver medal in the alpine combined event on Thursday (Wednesday night in the United States) at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, EagleVail’s Mikaela Shiffrin joined a very…
Vonn, Shiffrin can still save these Games for U.S. alpine squad
EagleVail’s Mikaela Shiffrin and Vail’s Lindsey Vonn can make or break the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympic for the U.S. Ski Team this week, either raising the medal tally into the…
We are all lying to our kids about doing everything we can to stop school shootings
So I lied to my three boys as I sent them out the door to school Thursday morning, telling them I would see them later. I have no idea if…
EagleVail’s Shiffrin brings home giant slalom gold at Pyeongchang Winter Olympics
The winds finally stopped blowing and EagleVail’s Mikaela Shiffrin blew away the field in giant slalom for her first gold medal of the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics Thursday (Wednesday night in…
Olympics can teach us to sow the seeds of civility by ‘disagreeing without disrespect’
I really liked what Eagle County Commissioner Kathy Chandler-Henry had to say Monday at the county’s annual State of the County presentation in Eagle. An Olympic-themed video featuring Eagle’s own…
‘Single and ready to medal,’ Vail’s Vonn, Shiffrin hunting multiple Olympic golds in Pyeongchang
Oh yeah, that’s more like it. The Olympics have kicked off, with Colorado snowboarders grabbing medals and poised to snag more, and both Vail and Beaver Creek have received around…
Eagle County works to correct Medicaid eligibility glitch
Editor’s note: A version of this story first appeared on the Vail Daily website on Feb. 11, 2018. A Boulder attorney is worried some Eagle County residents are being denied…