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Opinion: Democracy deniers are just digging in deeper after midterms, Trump 2024 announcement
The midterm elections this month brought widespread failure to election deniers on the ballot. The most toxic of these dishonest Republicans all went down in stinging losses. Losers included: Governor…
As Ogden pulls plug on endorsements in our local papers, RealVail.com fills the Nov. 8 voting void
I don’t remember when the Vail Daily first started endorsing political candidates. I know they weren’t doing it when I started there as sports editor in June of 1991. In…
Ogden steps in it again with political search disparity on Colorado ski-town newspaper websites
Editor’s note: This post has been updated with a comment from Vail Daily Publisher Mark Wurzer, who says the problem with the search function has been fixed as of 4:40…
Shame on Senate GOP for blocking CORE Act, forcing Biden’s Camp Hale designation
Mainstream media reporting on Wednesday’s announcement by President Joe Biden of a new Camp Hale National Monument have portrayed it as an election gift to Colorado U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet,…
Camp Hale’s darker side worth preserving, daylighting in national monument debate
The U.S. military and intelligence services have accomplished some truly momentous … and truly messed-up … things throughout our nation’s 246-year history. Take, for example, Camp Hale, at 9,200 feet…
Opinion: Camp Hale needs monument status to stave off extractive industries, protect our water
The Camp Hale-Continental Divide is the proposed site of a national monument encompassing the historic site of Camp Hale and the area surrounding Colorado’s Continental Divide. As a former military…
Seeking sensible advice on how to respectfully, sustainably climb Colorado’s 14ers
When I first moved to Colorado as a teenager and started climbing 14ers in the early 80s, the population was 2.8 million. There were far fewer people on those summits…
Opinion: Clamping down on outdoor water use from Vail to Aurora still won’t fill Powell, Mead
Lake Mead’s receding waters have exposed sunken boats, dead bodies, and more. But the wisdom of a bet placed in 2005 by Las Vegas has also been revealed. The Southern…
Where has all the snow gone? Hopefully, Vail’s third La Nina in a row will deliver the goods
With only a couple of months until the 2022-23 ski season kicks off (and far less time until the snow guns crank up), it’s time to start thinking about the…
Some invaluable advice from Real Vail, Purina on climbing, hiking, traveling with dogs in Colorado
If your family is anything like mine – and I think we’re a fairly typical mountain-dwelling, dog-owning crew – you take your dogs just about everywhere with you in this…