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Colorado first state in middle of nation to adopt electric vehicle standard
Colorado’s Air Quality Control Commission on Thursday voted 8-1 to approve a zero-emission vehicle standard mandating a certain percentage of the new passenger vehicles sold in Colorado are plug-in electric.…
Saying ‘no mas’ to Walmart
Since it’s corporations through tools like Citizens United that control the political agenda in the United States, that’s clearly where we need to turn for solutions to the mass-shooting epidemic…
Reinsurance law a signifcant but small first step to fixing ski-town health care crisis
Forgive me for not celebrating quite as hard as the Dems down in Denver (and weirdly even Republican Sen. Cory Gardner) over Wednesday’s federal waiver that will allow Colorado to…
Individual market health insurance rates to drop by nearly 20 percent in 2020
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Tuesday announced preliminary rates for individual health insurance plans in 2020, and Vail Democratic state Sen. Kerry Donovan cited the reinsurance bill she successfully carried…
At higher risk, Colorado residents need annual skin cancer screening
I was recently diagnosed with a basal cell carcinoma on my nose. In August I’ll have Mohs surgery to remove it. To be clear, basal cell carcinoma is a form…
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…
Colorado could get eighth congressional seat through redistricting, but citizenship question on census critical
In a RealVail.com article that first posted in the Vail Daily on Monday, Metropolitan State University of Denver political science professor Robert Preuhs said there’s a chance Colorado will get…
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…
Ski season just keeps going as Breck extends to June 9
OK, first the good news: All the snowstorms in May have Colorado at nearly 200% of the average annual snowpack – all but eliminating drought conditions in 99.99% of the…