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.
Trump is sending in the troops, and, on June 8, this is just the beginning. Forget the fact he’s spending $45 million for an unprecedented peacetime military parade in D.C. to celebrate…
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
An oil train above the Colorado River in Eagle County last summer (David O. Williams photo). Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser on Thursday issued a forceful statement on the U.S.…
May 29, 2025Read More
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser on Wednesday said a U.S. International Court of Trade ruling blocking President Donald Trump’s global tariffs imposed by executive orders is “another example of the…
May 28, 2025Read More
One of my three sons graduated with an engineering degree from the University of Colorado Boulder earlier this month, and I was disappointed. Not in him. But in the job…
May 27, 2025Read More
A protestor for immigrant rights in Edwards recently. Colorado’s mountain resort towns would grind to a halt without immigrant labor, and Elizabeth Velasco – a state lawmaker who moved from Mexico…
May 24, 2025Read More
Federal agents have been active this week in mountain communities, according to numerous sources, enforcing an immigration crackdown by the Trump administration. That has members of the local Latino community…
May 22, 2025Read More
Vail Health Behavioral Health Executive Director Chris Lindley shows off the Precourt Healing Center’s state-of-the-art kitchen during an April tour, as Vail Health Public Relations Director Sally Welsh looks on…
May 20, 2025Read More
The Winter Park Ski Train in Fraser with Winter Park ski area in the background (David O. Williams photo). The Denver Nuggets are like a ski train that just keeps…
May 6, 2025Read More
The cast of “Hamilton” at the Victoria Palace Theater in London on April 22. LONDON – Last Tuesday evening, I had the pleasure of attending for the first time, with…
April 29, 2025Read More