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David 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.

Opinion: Boebert vapes as Colorado high country could burn without firefighter pay

Opinion: Boebert vapes as Colorado high country could burn without firefighter pay

Fall is one of the most magical times to visit and live in the Colorado high country, especially as human carbon emissions causing climate change continue to scorch lower-elevation parts…

State switches up Moffat Tunnel lease team as passenger rail push accelerates

State switches up Moffat Tunnel lease team as passenger rail push accelerates

The state-owned Moffat Tunnel on Union Pacific’s Central Corridor rail line near Winter Park (Chase Woodruff/Colorado Newsline photo). The state of Colorado has switched tracks on its Moffat Tunnel lease…

‘Write it when I’m gone’: Sorry, Rod, the Slifer book couldn’t wait for you to be done skiing

‘Write it when I’m gone’: Sorry, Rod, the Slifer book couldn’t wait for you to be done skiing

Rod Slifer, 88, ripping down Lost Boy in Vail’s Game Creek Bowl with Mount of the Holy Cross on the horizon on March 19, 2023 (David O. Williams photo). Some…

Opinion: Will Aspen end Boebert? If so, Vail (and the world) owes its ski-town rival

Opinion: Will Aspen end Boebert? If so, Vail (and the world) owes its ski-town rival

Boebert and friend in action at the Buell Theater in Denver on Sept. 10. Could the elitist liberal enclave of Aspen be where Republican right-wing U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s tumultuous…

Bennet, Neguse urge BLM director to slow down Utah expansion of oil transport facility

Bennet, Neguse urge BLM director to slow down Utah expansion of oil transport facility

Colorado U.S. Sen Michael Bennet and U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse, instrumental last month in at least temporarily derailing a massive expansion of Utah oil trains through Colorado, are now taking aim…

Citing nearly $450,000 in legal fees, Eagle County looks to state in any future oil train fight

Citing nearly $450,000 in legal fees, Eagle County looks to state in any future oil train fight

Two trains on Amtrak’s California Zephyr line pass each other east of Glenwood Springs on Sept. 2, 2021 (Chase Woodruff/Colorado Newsline). While Eagle County officials and environmentalists have been high-fiving…

Could Colorado keep Trump off 2024 ballot under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment?

Could Colorado keep Trump off 2024 ballot under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment?

A growing chorus of conservative scholars and former judges, including J. Michael Luttig – who helped scuttle elements of the alleged Jan. 6 coup attempt from his home in Vail – are making…

From Eastman to Noem, Beaver Creek’s ‘freedom’ fest keeps serving up red meat

From Eastman to Noem, Beaver Creek’s ‘freedom’ fest keeps serving up red meat

Steamboat Institute favorite John Eastman was booked this week on charges of trying to subvert the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. BEAVER CREEK, Colo. – Only today’s snarling cult-of-Trump Republican…

U.S. Court of Appeals vacates federal approval of Uinta Basin Railway project

U.S. Court of Appeals vacates federal approval of Uinta Basin Railway project

A Union Pacific oil train traveling along the Colorado River (Chase Woodruff/Colorado Newsline). Eagle County and a coalition of environmental groups on Friday won a legal challenge that at least…

Metro State professor, CU grad questions mission, reputation of Benson Center in wake of Eastman hire

Metro State professor, CU grad questions mission, reputation of Benson Center in wake of Eastman hire

The entrance to the Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization in Kittredge Central Hall at the University of Colorado Boulder (Quentin Young/Colorado Newsline). Political science professor Robert Preuhs, a…