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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.
Union Pacific wastewater spill near Moffat Tunnel underscores rail safety debate
As Colorado lawmakers this month prepare to do something that Congress has been incapable of for more than a year – debate meaningful rail safety legislation – Union Pacific, state regulators and officials in…
Rod Slifer helped make a meadow into a mountain town with his warmth, wit and wisdom
Rod Slifer was not a statue-in-the-town plaza kind of guy. In fact, he cringed at the plaza being named after him at all. Or the ski run. Or a book…
Beaver Creek’s new COO Murphy rose through ranks, bringing invaluable perspective
Bobby Murphy has seen the ski industry from virtually every perspective. As a 10-year-old kid growing up playing hockey in Evanston, Ill., right outside of Chicago, but skiing weekends at Wilmot…
Republicans spar over who’s Trumpier in CD3 race now that Boebert has bailed
In the wake of former President Donald Trump’s Jan. 23 triumph in the New Hampshire primary, Colorado congressional candidate Russ Andrews of Carbondale, called on his GOP rivals in his…
CD3 candidates from both sides of aisle weigh in on national security, border crisis
The Democratic frontrunner in the race for Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District seat and a prominent Republican candidate agree there’s a crisis on the southern border, the administration of President Joe…
Colorado consumers could kiss credit card rewards goodbye if Durbin bill passes
The banking industry is sounding the alarm to the outdoor recreation and travel industries about a proposed U.S. Senate bill that credit card companies warn will strip away awards programs,…
Massive storm slams Vail, shuts down driving as slides threaten local roads
It’s dumping big time at Vail on MLK Day: 24 inches in the last two days, 3 feet in the last week. But that’s literally wreaking havoc on local roads.…
With Boebert bailing on CD3, what’s next for immigration debate on Colorado’s Western Slope?
National Park Service photo of New York’s Statue of Liberty. The race for Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District, which includes most of the state’s mountainous Western Slope, looks dramatically different with last…
The great ski train debate: Will skiers, workers ever ride the rails in Colorado?
Passengers relax on Amtrak’s California Zephyr, which follows the Colorado River and passes through a remote corner of Eagle County (Chase Woodruff, Colorado Newsline photo). In the summer of 1960,…
Boebert to leave CD3, seek reelection in CD4 on Colorado’s Eastern Plains
Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, a controversial and divisive figure on Colorado’s Western Slope, announced on Wednesday she will be pulling out of the 3rd Congressional District to seek re-election…