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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.

Poll: Wealthy investors find Denver housing market overpriced, unaffordable

Poll: Wealthy investors find Denver housing market overpriced, unaffordable

A recent Morgan Stanley poll of more than 1,000 high net-worth investors revealed that they overwhelmingly feel the Denver housing market is both overpriced and unaffordable for first-time homebuyers. Morgan…

Ford looks to Denver drivers for input on updating SUV model

Ford looks to Denver drivers for input on updating SUV model

Ford will be rolling out a significant update of one of its existing SUVs in the near future, but before it takes such a major step the company is seeking…

Public Lands Day bill sparks partisan debate in Colorado Legislature

Public Lands Day bill sparks partisan debate in Colorado Legislature

A feel-good Public Lands Day bill meant to proclaim Colorado’s love of its vast swaths of federal land and how they’re managed has sparked a partisan debate over the role…

Colorado House District 59 race likely to be costly, nasty and close

Colorado House District 59 race likely to be costly, nasty and close

Editor’s note: A version of this story first appeared in The Colorado Statesman: In 2014, the race for Colorado House District 59 in Southwest Colorado was one of closest, nastiest…

Colorado lawmaker looks to daylight high cost of prescription drugs with transparency bill

Colorado lawmaker looks to daylight high cost of  prescription drugs with transparency bill

A bipartisan bill aimed at compelling pharmaceutical companies to disclose to the state the costs of producing certain prescription drugs will have its first hearing before the Colorado House Committee…

How Peyton Manning can repair his image after old sexual-assault allegation resurfaces

How Peyton Manning can repair his image after old sexual-assault allegation resurfaces

Well, so much for the storybook ending and Peyton Manning gloriously riding off into the sunset after winning a Super Bowl the way his boss John Elway did. After a…

Follow the snow flow: Powder skiing from Park City to Vail

Follow the snow flow: Powder skiing from Park City to Vail

Here’s a fun thing to do if you have the time and don’t mind driving through a massive snowstorm: Powder ski your way from Steamboat to Park City to Vail.…

Boom, bust cycles reverberate along Colorado’s Route 50

Boom, bust cycles reverberate along Colorado’s Route 50

Editor’s note: A version of this story was first published by Route Fifty in April of 2015: U.S. Route 50 is a two-lane backroad in Colorado, scenic and charming but…

Mountain climber Luis Benitez faces some high hurdles to growing state’s outdoor industry

Mountain climber Luis Benitez faces some high hurdles to growing state’s outdoor industry

Editor’s note: This story first appeared in the Colorado Statesman: Luis Benitez has encountered all sorts of hardships as an elite mountaineer who’s scaled the highest points on all seven…

Critics in Garfield County lament lack of local control over oil and gas drilling

Critics in Garfield County lament lack of local control over oil and gas drilling

Residents of the second-most drilled county in Colorado warn backers of eleven “local control” ballot questions to be careful what they wish for, because oil and gas money will funnel…