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.
Shifting attitudes on climate issues impacting Colorado, national political debate
Coloradans care about climate change, surveys say, and analysts point out that politicians seeking congressional seats or the White House ignore the issue at their own peril in this critical…
Manufacturing key to diversifying struggling Western Slope economies, experts say
Colorado has never been a major hub of manufacturing. Its cities will never be mistaken for those in America’s Rust Belt industrial heartland, and most Coloradans are fine with that…
Ballot battle over grocery store beer, wine sales averted
A compromise bill to allow the gradual sales of full-strength wine and beer in Colorado grocery stores and avoid a costly ballot initiative battle to speed up the process has…
New law turbo-charges electric vehicle sales in Colorado, including Ford lineup
America as a whole may still be embroiled in an ongoing love affair with the automobile dating back to at least the 1960s, but Colorado is increasingly becoming enamored with…
U.S. Rep. Polis calls Orlando massacre an ‘act of terror against all Americans’
In the wake of the nation’s deadliest mass shooting in Orlando on Sunday, U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, an openly gay Boulder Democrat who represents Colorado’s 2nd Congressional District, decried the…
Governor signs bill to gradually allow full-strength beer, wines sales in grocery stores
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper late last week signed a pair of bills into law that will change how people get their buzz on in the state, including one that will…
Former Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter pulling hard for 2017 return of USA Pro Challenge
An avid cyclist, former Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter remains hopeful that the USA Pro Challenge cycling race he pushed hard for during his one term in office will return to…
Muhammad Ali knew minorities, poor will always be cogs in American war machine
My father, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel and judge advocate general who died a little over two years ago, was no fan of Muhammad Ali, the boxing great, poetic…
Governor mulls bill to avoid ballot battle over grocery store beer, wine sales
Liquor store owners in Eagle and Summit counties are watching intently as Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper mulls signing into law or vetoing Senate Bill 197, a bid to head off…
Conservation groups applaud newly signed Colorado Public Lands Day
Conservation and outdoor industry groups around the state and the country are praising the new, first-in-the-nation Colorado Public Lands Day after Gov. John Hickenlooper signed it into law last week…
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