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Opinion: Trump’s Energy Secretary Wright is a Denver ‘climate arsonist’
The Marshall Fire in Boulder in 2021 (first responder photo). An address earlier this month by Energy Secretary Chris Wright at a gathering of fossil fuel industry heavyweights offered a…
RealVail.com added to Signal chat about Trump plan to confiscate trophy homes in ski towns
RealVail.com over the weekend was added to a Signal messenger app text string between Trump cabinet secretaries discussing a housing plan aimed at high-end resort areas that will apparently be…
Opinion: Dems need to take time to keep Trump’s portrait out of Colorado Capitol
If you go to the Colorado Capitol, you’ll see an empty space on a wall where a portrait of President Donald Trump once hung. That space should remain empty. Why…
The O. Zone: Why write about policy when our democracy is circling the drain?
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…
Opinion: Just two months in, Trump’s constitutional crisis has arrived
March 15, 2024 at approximately 11:10 PM. That’s when the United States entered a constitutional crisis which the separation of powers laid out by the nation’s founding fathers did not prevent…
Opinion: Utah, LDS church embraces Trump as Colorado fights for freedom
Utah and Colorado are in some ways sisters. They share a border of over 200 miles, are both world-renowned skiing destinations that straddle the beautiful and rugged Colorado Plateau, and…
Opinion: Trump’s new McCarthyism aims to foster fear, control at colleges, universities
I got an unexpected email last week from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It referenced the Prevention Research Center at the University of Minnesota, where I lead…
The O. Zone: Riding that train, high on disdain for Trump’s treatment of Ukraine
Glenwood Canyon from the California Zephyr on Monday (David O. Williams photo). A little over seven months ago I was at my mom’s house in Birch Bay, Washington, when I wrote…
The O. Zone: Snow slams Vail, Shiffrin misses mark at Worlds, airline update
Snowy scenes at Beaver Creek on Friday (Beaver Creek Mountain Facebook photo). What a difference a week makes. Last Saturday (Feb. 8) I wrote how the Eagle River Valley that…
The O. Zone: Locals get gouged again as ‘low-fare’ airlines target school breaks
I’ve lived in the Eagle River Valley since June of 1991 (minus one year in Washington, D.C. and one year in Seattle), and in that 32-year span I’ve flown out…