David O. Williams is an award-winning freelance reporter based in the Vail Valley of Colorado, writing on health care, immigration, politics, the environment, energy, public lands, outdoor recreation and sports. His work has appeared in 5280 Magazine, American Way Magazine (American Airlines), the Anchorage Daily News (Alaska), Aspen Daily News, Aspen Journalism, the Aspen Times, Beaver Creek Magazine, the Chicago Tribune, the Colorado Independent (formerly Colorado Confidential), 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 Daily Trail (Vail), the Denver Daily News, the Denver Post, the Durango Herald, the Eagle Valley Enterprise, the Eastside Journal (Bellevue, Washington), ESPN.com, the Glenwood Springs Post-Independent, the Greeley Tribune, the Huffington Post, the King County Journal (Seattle, Washington), KUNC.org (northern Colorado), LA Weekly, the London Daily Mirror, the Montgomery Journal (Maryland), The New York Times, the Parent’s Handbook, Peaks Magazine (now Epic Life), People Magazine, Powder Magazine, the Pueblo Chieftain, PT Magazine, Rocky Mountain Golf Magazine, the Rocky Mountain News, Atlantic Media's RouteFifty.com (formerly Government Executive State and Local), SKI Magazine, Ski Area Management, SKIING Magazine, the Summit Daily News, United Hemispheres (United Airlines), Vail/Beaver Creek Magazine, Vail en Español, Vail Valley Magazine, the Vail Daily, the Vail Trail and Westword (Denver). Williams is also the founder, publisher and editor of RealVail.com and RockyMountainPost.com.
Boebert doesn’t like Ike antifa post as she battles with combat veterans online
Editor’s note: A version of the following story on Lauren Boebert and her battle with Pueblo veterans in her race with Diane Mitsch Bush to represent Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District…
Neguse, Hickenlooper look to science in dealing with wildfires, climate change
While touring deadly wildfires in California on Monday, President Donald Trump told state officials pressing him on climate change that “it’ll start getting cooler” and “I don’t think science knows,…
Hickenlooper offers climate plan as wildfires rage across western United States
As massive wildfires ravage California, Washington and Oregon, much cooler, wetter weather over the last week has eased the danger somewhat in Colorado, which just endured one of the hottest,…
Bennet on spending: ‘We’ve borrowed $5 trillion from Chinese to cut taxes for richest people in America’
VAIL – Asked last week at a celebration of a $60 million federal grant for improvements along I-70 on Vail Pass about a long-term solution for Colorado’s chronic transportation infrastructure…
Hickenlooper rips Gardner for ‘government malpractice’ on health care, lack of plan
EAGLE — Former Colorado Governor and Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, during a tour of the Grizzly Creek Fire incident command center in Eagle last week, took a minute to lay…
Dems go after Boebert for land grab take on CORE Act
VAIL — Democrats stumping on the Western Slope last week took aim at Republicans Lauren Boebert and five-term U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton for their ongoing opposition to the Colorado Outdoor…
Boebert blasted Obamacare but now studying policy with just two months till Election Day
Editor’s note: A version of this story first appeared in the Colorado Times Recorder. With just two months until Election Day, conservative congressional candidate Lauren Boebert – a Republican favored…
Roberts, Donovan blast Boebert, Trump on QAnon as House weighs resolution
The two Democratic state lawmakers from the Vail area are blasting Republican Colorado congressional candidate Lauren Boebert for legitimizing the debunked QAnon conspiracy theory that the FBI has designated a…
Beaver Creek extreme: How the Eagle County GOP came to embrace the radical right
Time for the Republican Party to change its name to the Recall Party. Seems to be their entire strategy for gaining elected seats in Colorado: Fail to connect with voters…
Local congressional candidates all back more funding for Postal Service during COVID-19 pandemic
With mail delivery slowing during the still-raging COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. House on Saturday passed a bill first proposed by U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse in March to inject $25 billion…