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.
Gardner vote on oil and gas methane rule targeted by conservation groups
Colorado’s conservation community cheered and energy-extraction groups condemned on Wednesday as the U.S. Senate voted 51-49 not to use the Congressional Review Act to rescind a U.S. Bureau of Land…
Healthy Vision Month highlights critical role of vision care plans
May is Healthy Vision Month, but most people past the age of 40 – especially those of us who make our livings staring at computer screens — already know the…
Tipton joins two other GOP Colorado congressman voting in favor of AHCA
Congressman Scott Tipton, a Republican who represents much of Eagle County in the sprawling 3rd Congressional District, voted in favor of the controversial American Health Care Act (AHCA) on Thursday.…
Source says Colorado courthouse seeing ‘significant increase’ in ICE arrests
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have been much more active in Eagle County courtrooms since February, sources say, disputing what the local sheriff and district attorney told RealVail.com last week.…
Gorsuch nomination a blow to Colorado ski industry he says he loves
Colorado did not help elect Donald Trump president, but his surprise victory last month has Colorado native and avid skier Neil Gorsuch on the verge of being nominated to the…
Swirling ICE roundup rumors causing fear, confusion in Colorado ski country
The Eagle County sheriff and district attorney say they’re not seeing increased Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests locally, despite persistent rumors, but both are worried community concerns about a…
Colorado business leaders push for common-sense immigration reform
A common theme at a business roundtable discussion of the nation’s broken immigration system Thursday in Denver was that recent Trump administration orders have created an environment of fear throughout…
Congress works to repeal federal methane rules modeled after Colorado regulations
Depending on which side of the issue you talk to — oil and gas industry advocates or members of Colorado’s conservation community — Congress is about to gut crucial and…
Hickenlooper, Houses Dems call on Trump to rescind divisive Muslim travel-ban order
Colorado House Democrats on Tuesday joined Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper in condemning the Trump administration’s travel ban executive order barring refugees and citizens from seven majority-Muslim countries where President Donald…
Colorado lawmakers slam, support Trump travel-ban order
Members of Colorado’s congressional delegation from both sides of the aisle continued to criticize President Donald Trump’s executive order imposing a travel ban on citizens from seven majority-Islamic nations, although…
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