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.
Colorado governor, gubernatorial hopefuls weigh in on Sessions’ marijuana decision
Colorado’s current governor and two front-runners to replace him in November all blasted Thursday’s decision by U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions to reverse the Cole Memo and potentially target states like…
Can the Winter Olympics move beyond politics and leave a lasting legacy of positive change?
North Korea and South Korea are holding talks about the North’s possible participation in next month’s Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, and President Donald Trump — despite previous…
Democratic Colorado lawmakers skewer colleagues for holiday break without fixing DACA, CHIP
Jared Polis, a Boulder Democrat who represents part of Colorado ski country in Congress, scolded his colleagues for “skipping town” for the holiday break without dealing with two critical issues…
Southeastern Utah now ground zero for divergent views on managing public lands
When I was in college in Denver from the mid to late 1980s, a friend and I did a road trip to Natural Bridges in southeastern Utah — the state’s…
One county, two very different representatives: Tipton vs Polis
Eagle County, Colo., is a rural, mountain resort area with a population of about 53,000 people, but it has two representatives in Congress because of a split boundary, and those…
Colorado Obamacare enrollment rising despite federal uncertainty
Health insurance enrollment on the state’s Obamacare marketplace jumped by nearly 30 percent this year compared to last, according to Connect For Health Colorado officials, meaning Coloradans at least seem…
La Petite Academy preschools honored with national health, fitness award
Former First Lady Michelle Obama has been out of the White House for nearly a year, but her legacy of promoting youth fitness and a healthy diet lives on at…
Funding mental health services won’t end all gun violence, but it will save lives
Andrew Romanoff, who as the president and CEO of Mental Health Colorado wholeheartedly supports Eagle County Ballot Issue 1A, wanted to make sure during a recent interview that I was…
Trump undercuts Obamacare as governors push for bipartisan Murray-Alexander fix
As President Donald Trump continues his assault on Obamacare — halving the enrollment period, cutting low-income subsidies and slashing marketing budgets by 90 percent — a bipartisan group of governors…
President pushes ‘mean’ Trumpcare orders as Colorado governor pushes back
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper is taking steps to stabilize the state’s health insurance markets in the wake of Trump administration efforts to undermine the Affordable Care Act through executive orders.…
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