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Is race a factor in the deal that got away at Eagle River Village?
In the first two installments for the Vail Daily of what I hope will be an ongoing series on water quality and low-income housing in the Vail Valley, I purposefully…
Eagle River Village water deemed undrinkable by numerous residents
I recently spoke to a woman who lives in the Eagle River Village mobile home park in Edwards who told me she gets a rash-like skin condition from bathing in…
Road trip from Vail to Puerto Peñasco shows need for open border
The Williams family just got back from an 1,852-mile (roundtrip) road trip from our home in EagleVail, Colorado, to Puerto Peñasco, Sonora, Mexico. It was a great low-cost beach vacation…
Colorado could get eighth congressional seat through redistricting, but citizenship question on census critical
In a RealVail.com article that first posted in the Vail Daily on Monday, Metropolitan State University of Denver political science professor Robert Preuhs said there’s a chance Colorado will get…
Beware undeclared foreign wars based on dubious intelligence
In my post-Memorial Day post Tuesday on the abdication by Congress of its constitutional duty to debate and declare war, I ran out of time to dip into a couple…
As Iran conflict looms, Congress on Memorial Day has forgotten how to declare war
I always miss talking to my late father, Col. Cecil Wayne Williams, about matters of national security and the role of Congress and the White House in determining where, when…
Ski season just keeps going as Breck extends to June 9
OK, first the good news: All the snowstorms in May have Colorado at nearly 200% of the average annual snowpack – all but eliminating drought conditions in 99.99% of the…
May powder days at Breck, A-Basin and killer mud-season lunch specials
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…
RMGO’s Brown on Colorado GOP, guns and recalls: ‘We will piss in their ice bowl’
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…
Humans hammering other species into extinction as climate change accelerates
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…