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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…
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…
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…
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…
Red flag recalls revealed as purely political Republican tactic voters should reject
Republicans eager to start recalling “overreaching” Democrats who are simply doing what Colorado voters overwhelming sent them to Denver to do last November should pay attention to the words of…
Dems finally getting something done to start lowering runaway costs of health insurance
State Sen. Kerry Donovan, D-Vail, is rightly focused on the key issues voters overwhelmingly sent her to Denver to deal with last November. One of the biggest issues, for me…
Celebrating the end of a really good ski season at Vail
It appears that the solid ski season of 2018-19 at Vail will go out with a bit of a whimper on Easter Sunday, April 21. Don’t get me wrong, I’m…
FBI says threat is over, but that’s not true as long as domestic terrorists can so easily purchase guns
The FBI says “there is no longer a threat to the community” after Miami resident Sol Pais, an 18-year-old “infatuated with Columbine,” reportedly was found dead near Mount Evans. Of…
Protect Our Winters destroys hypocrisy of non-argument that keeps snow-sports athletes silent on climate change
So I’m that annoying sports reporter who asks athletes questions about politics and policy when seemingly everyone in the world wants sports to be an escape from those things –…