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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.

Connecting random dots: Beav’ closing, Coors opening, Kardashian mania, Huskies history

Connecting random dots: Beav’ closing, Coors opening, Kardashian mania, Huskies history

Colorado will never be a great baseball state. It’s too high, so balls carry way too much off bats, and the air is too thin and dry, so balls don’t…

Lessons for Silverton: Ski, tourism towns like Vail, Moab can coexist with Superfund sites

Lessons for Silverton: Ski, tourism towns like Vail, Moab can coexist with Superfund sites

A little over eight months after EPA contractors accidentally released 3 million gallons of toxic wastewater into the Animas River near the scenic ski town of Silverton in Southwestern Colorado,…

Kaepernick rehabbing in Vail, visiting with Elway as Broncos, 49ers talk trade

Kaepernick rehabbing in Vail, visiting with Elway as Broncos, 49ers talk trade

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick has been spending  a lot of time in Vail this winter, but not because of the excellent ski conditions. The 28-year-old has reportedly been…

Colorado ski-town homes more attractive as Front Range housing prices keep climbing

Colorado ski-town homes more attractive as Front Range housing prices keep climbing

With ski season winding down in Colorado’s high country and the Denver-Boulder housing market so strong, real estate experts say Front Range buyers appear to be turning their attention to…

Yet another great powder day at Beaver Creek

Yet another great powder day at Beaver Creek

My goal every ski season is a modest one: I like to spend a month out of every year on skis, so at least 30 days. I hit that mark…

Traveling to Mexico, Central America for spring break? Get Zika virus, immunization advice

Traveling to Mexico, Central America for spring break? Get Zika virus, immunization advice

Two of the last three years my family has traveled to the tropics for spring break, and we’ve encountered plenty of other Vail Valley residents vacationing in both Belize and…

Shiffrin, Vonn battled injuries but also won big during strange World Cup season

Shiffrin, Vonn battled injuries but also won big during strange World Cup season

The 2015-16 World Cup ski racing season was a strange one for both Vail Valley superstars Lindsey Vonn and Mikaela Shiffrin. Vonn’s ended in injury with an overall title in…

Western Slope lawmakers scramble to bring down runaway health insurance costs in high country

Western Slope lawmakers scramble to bring down runaway health insurance costs in high country

A bipartisan bill to study geographically leveling the playing field for health insurance customers in Colorado’s mountain resort region passed out of the state House Committee on Health, Insurance and…

More winter weather this week at Vail, Beaver Creek

More winter weather this week at Vail, Beaver Creek

What an incredible Easter weekend of skiing. Great full-on powder feast at Beaver Creek on Saturday followed by cold temps and tasty powder leftovers at Vail on Sunday. And now…

I-70 traction bill skids out again, but debate may have increased tire sales

I-70 traction bill skids out again, but debate may have increased tire sales

Colorado’s state Senate Transportation Committee on Thursday killed a bipartisan I-70 traction bill sponsored by Vail-area lawmakers Sen. Kerry Donovan and Rep. Diane Mitsch Bush aimed at reducing the number…