Stories written by davidoDavid 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.
A Trump administration scheme to jam through a big increase in Utah oil trains traveling along tracks in the narrow canyons of the upper Colorado River was met with a…
June 23, 2025Read More
I agree wholeheartedly with President Donald Trump. At least the version of Trump from the 2024 presidential campaign who said a vote for him was a vote to “turn the page forever on…
June 23, 2025Read More
The Red Canyon Fire near Wolcott on Wednesday (Eagle Valley Wildland Facebook photo). If you’re signed up for Eagle County emergency alerts (and if you’re not, please stop reading right now and…
June 20, 2025Read More
Eagle County Commissioner Matt Scherr Saturday at No Kings rally in Edwards (David O. Williams photo). Thanks to President Donald Trump’s campaign of mass deportations, America has become a police…
June 15, 2025Read More
Former U.S. Army officer Paula Clements addresses the No Kings rally in Freedom Park in Edwards on Saturday. EDWARDS, Colo. — About 350 people gathered at Freedom Park in Edwards…
June 14, 2025Read More
Alex Kelloff courtesy photo. Democrats say freshman Republican Congressman Jeff Hurd, a Grand Junction lawyer, is now caught between a rock and hard-right place after his vote in favor of…
June 13, 2025Read More
An Atlas nuclear waste railcar (U.S. Department of Energy photo). Colorado has a long, dark history of failed and still highly toxic nuclear energy and weapons projects around the state,…
June 12, 2025Read More
Upper Gore Canyon of the Colorado River from Amtrak’s California Zephyr in March — a remote canyon where an oil spill or wildfire would be very hard to reach (David…
June 11, 2025Read More
These deadly “protestors”, many of whom violently clashed with police in an effort to stop the certification of a freely, fairly elected president at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6,…
June 8, 2025Read More
Courtney Samuel, CEO of Denver-based fitness training company, Bodies By Perseverance (DreamSpring.org photo). As May’s National Small Business Month winds down, Minneapolis-based retail giant Target is celebrating year-round “inclusive economic growth…
May 30, 2025Read More