David O. Williams is an award-winning freelance reporter based in the Vail Valley of Colorado, writing on health care, immigration, politics, the environment, energy, public lands, outdoor recreation and sports. His work has appeared in 5280 Magazine, American Way Magazine (American Airlines), the Anchorage Daily News (Alaska), Aspen Daily News, the Aspen Times, Beaver Creek Magazine, the Chicago Tribune, the Colorado Independent, Colorado Politics formerly the Colorado Statesman), Colorado Public News, the Colorado Springs Gazette, the Colorado Independent (formerly Colorado Confidential), the Colorado Springs Independent, the Colorado Statesman (now Colorado Politics), the Daily Trail (Vail), the Denver Daily News, the Denver Post, the Durango Herald, the Eagle Valley Enterprise, the Eastside Journal (Bellevue, Washington), ESPN.com, the Glenwood Springs Post-Independent, the Greeley Tribune, the Huffington Post, the King County Journal (Seattle, Washington), KUNC.org (northern Colorado), LA Weekly, the London Daily Mirror, the Montgomery Journal (Maryland), The New York Times, the Parent’s Handbook, Peaks Magazine (now Epic Life), People Magazine, Powder Magazine, the Pueblo Chieftain, PT Magazine, Rocky Mountain Golf Magazine, the Rocky Mountain News, Atlantic Media's RouteFifty.com (formerly Government Executive State and Local), SKI Magazine, Ski Area Management, SKIING Magazine, the Summit Daily News, United Hemispheres (United Airlines), Vail/Beaver Creek Magazine, Vail en Español, Vail Valley Magazine, the Vail Daily, the Vail Trail and Westword (Denver). Williams is also the founder, publisher and editor of RealVail.com and RockyMountainPost.com.
Trump must learn there are no ‘very fine people’ marching for Nazism, slavery, civil war
On Tuesday I posted “My family’s anti-Trump travelogue” on Rocky Mountain Post sister site RealVail.com, explaining the historical teaching moments we’ve experienced during our last year of travel both domestically…
Sept. 5 deadline looms for DACA — a nightmare for Colorado Dreamers
DACA recipients, more commonly as “Dreamers”, have been heavily in the news of late — for all the wrong reasons. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, was put in…
After dust settles, Bennet backed Obamacare, Gardner touted Trumpcare
After a dramatic early-morning Friday vote that appears to have at least temporarily derailed Republican attempts to gut Obamacare, both Colorado senators were calling for a bipartisan fix to the…
Colorado SOS Williams hits back at Trump election commission after Kobach comments
Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams late last week pushed back against the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity after its co-chair, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, said Colorado voters…
Rural areas eyeing massive health insurance price hikes as BCRA stalls in Senate
With overall health care reform stuck in the Senate, where a proposed bill has been described as terrible for Colorado and other largely rural states that expanded Medicaid, news came…
Colorado Western Slope congressional race likely to focus on health care costs
State Rep. Diane Mitsch Bush, a Steamboat Springs Democrat, announced last week she’s trying to become the latest challenger to take on seemingly entrenched Republican U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton in…
Thumbing nose at Trump on Paris Accord, Hickenlooper joins U.S. Climate Alliance
Back in the fall of 2016, when it looked like Hillary Clinton would win the White House and Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper might join her cabinet, I wrote a story…
Starting with visas, some lawmakers still working toward commonsense immigration reform
Editor’s note: On Monday, July 17, Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly announced a one-time increase in H-2B non-farm work visas of 15,000 for fiscal 2017. Commonsense and bipartisanship are…
Polis jumps into Colorado gubernatorial race on Reddit
U.S. Rep. Jared Polis made his millions as an Internet entrepreneur, and in his eight years in Congress he’s never really avoided a good fight — whether on the floor…
Dems blast Trump decision on Paris Accord as local governments move forward
Colorado Democrats on Thursday skewered President Donald Trump for pulling out of the 2015 Paris Accord on global climate change, citing the state’s booming renewable energy sector and endangered outdoor…
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