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.
The U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. EAGLE, Colo. — Colorado U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper Tuesday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to start holding Trump administration officials in contempt…
April 16, 2025Read More
ROLA’s truck by train rail solution in Austria in 2019 (photo courtesy of ROLA blog). Retired Amtrak conductor Brad Swartzwelter has achieved minor celebrity since a story on his truck…
April 7, 2025Read More
The author busting through some branches on Seldom in Sundown Bowl at Vail on Friday. Anybody know what happened to the “Seldom” trail sign? Vail has been hit with more…
April 4, 2025Read More
White River National Forest Supervisor Scott Fitzwilliams, second to the right behind former President Joe Biden, applauds the Camp Hale National Monument signing in 2022. After 34 years in the…
April 2, 2025Read More
Eagle County Paramedic Services recently issued the following press release on its upcoming polling place election on Tuesday, May 6: Eagle County Paramedic Service’s Designated Election Official (DEO) received five…
March 30, 2025Read More
With a Trump Aviation custom Boeing 757 across the street at the Eagle County Regional Airport, dozens of protesters gathered in front of the local Tesla dealership on Saturday with…
March 29, 2025Read More
Editor’s note: Brita Horn on Saturday, March 29, was elected chair of the Colorado Republican Party and Russ Andrews was elected secretary of the party. A pair of Western Slope…
March 28, 2025Read More
No, by all means, let’s keep doing this on the main highway through the Colorado mountains. Semi crash in Glenwood Canyon (photo courtesy of CDOT). With temperatures in the Eagle…
March 26, 2025Read More
Thursday night was a brutal one for Telluride Ski & Golf owner Chuck Horning, who bore the brunt of a rare public rebuke from the town manager of nearby Mountain…
March 18, 2025Read More
Brad Swartzwelter during his working days as conductor of the Winter Park Express Ski Train (courtesy photo). The longtime Amtrak train conductor credited with crafting a business plan that helped…
March 17, 2025Read More