The real purpose of all of this is to strip away everyone's freedoms: www.realvail.com/the-o-zone-t...

Once again, AG Weiser is first in Colorado to react to Trump-packed, anti-environment SCOTUS. It is possible to both be pro-NEPA reform (something Congress should handle) and anti-oil trains along the Colorado River (not to mention nuclear waste): www.realvail.com/weiser-vows-...

After saving Aurora from a Trumped-up "invasion", now ICE has turned to Colorado ski towns, which will literally cease to function without immigrant labor: www.realvail.com/ice-other-fe...

My latest story on behavioral health issues in the Colorado mountains (it first appeared in the Gazette papers on Monday): www.realvail.com/starting-to-...

I know my vast Blue Sky audience has been on pins and needles waiting for my latest column on RealVail.com: www.realvail.com/the-o-zone-g...

My latest on Newsline:

Politics got you down? Try some policy. The idea of an I-70 truck train is catching on. The Real Vail version of an update that first appeared in the Gazette papers, with statements from Union Pacific and CDOT: www.realvail.com/amid-media-f...

Huge Real Vail scoop: www.realvail.com/realvail-com...

Russ Andrews of Carbondale is elected Secretary. With Routt County's Brita Horn now Chair, two of three new officers hail from the Western Slope. CTR profiled them both last week: #copolitics coloradotimesrecorder.com/2025/03/two-...

Tesla protest today with Trump plane on tarmac nearby in Eagle County: www.realvail.com/peaceful-pro...

It's a simple question. One I'm struggling to answer these days. www.realvail.com/the-o-zone-w...

Trouble in Telluride. My latest in the Gazette papers: gazette.com/life/skiing-...

Now this is what to do with an underutilized rail line ... get semi-trucks off of I-70 through the Colorado Mountains. My latest in the Denver and Colorado Springs Gazette newspapers: denvergazette.com/coloradobiz/...

Colorado's Phil Weiser and other AGs sue over ‘reckless and illegal’ mass firings of probationary federal workers

Clearly you were not paying attention in the lead-up to the election: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

More of this! We all know this won’t pass but this is a line in the sand and a great talking point. /cc @shasti.bsky.social

“The [GOP] resolution will ultimately lead to the enactment of a $4.5 trillion scheme that provides tax breaks to billionaires and increases the deficit, all at the expense of critical programs our communities rely on ... .” Neguse wrote. coloradotimesrecorder.com/2025/03/as-g...

This is what real leadership looks like: www.realvail.com/vail-native-...

After a brief, travel-related hiatus, the O. Zone is back on Real Vail: www.realvail.com/the-o-zone-r...

So good ...

Words and Phrases We Could Do Without open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

This is what you voted for, rural America. Good job. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

We’ve seen this throughout history—when courts are backed by the people, they’re able to oust autocracy We won’t let Trump 2.0 get away with removing longstanding checks & balances I explain @msnbc.com👇 - TN

Looking for to this.

So for voters who checked out last year over the Biden-Harris failures to rein in right-wing Israeli atrocities in Gaza, allowing Trump to take the White House, was this what you had in mind? U.S. troops annexing Palestinian territory? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

“While I could list a 1,000 things that Utah and Wyoming have refused to do to curtail ozone  and ozone-forming pollution ... even Colorado has barely taken steps to truly address the issue in a comprehensive, statewide manner" says an advocate #copolitics coloradotimesrecorder.com/2025/02/ozon...

My latest on Colorado Times Recorder: coloradotimesrecorder.com/2025/02/ozon...

If you don't want to be accused of racism, don't vote for a fucking racist, this isn't exactly rocket science my dudes thehill.com/homenews/cam...

January has come and gone and we here at the Colorado Times Recorder are restarting our weekly roundup of articles relating to political extremism in Colorado. coloradotimesrecorder.com/2025/01/extr...

A must read this Monday morning: www.levernews.com/trumps-tech-...

Very glad to see this. Time to take charge.

My latest on the sustainability of the multi-mountain season ski-pass business model in the Colorado Springs Gazette: gazette.com/life/skiing-...

As northwestern Colorado loses coal jobs, a group is raising the possibility of nuclear waste storage as a replacement. People around Hayden aren’t sure this is the “just transition” they want.

States rights for everything we like, such as abortion bans and mining and drilling on federal lands, but not for things we don't like, such as congestion pricing in NYC (lawyers, do your thing): www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/n...

A great blueprint for how Dems can snap out of their post-Trump malaise and move forward the next four years (with the next two years ahead of midterms the most critical): contrarian.substack.com/p/a-guide-fo...

Colorado law protects state streams, lakes and wetlands, no matter who is in the White House, lawmakers say

Trump's move to freeze massive amounts of federal funding beginning Tuesday could have profound consequences for Coloradans. It could strip funding for: ❌Food stamps ❌Head Start ❌Section 8 housing ❌Homeless shelters ❌Medicaid ❌ ... and much more By @chasewoodruff.bsky.social

Colorado must come together to protect our neighbors being targeted for deportation: www.realvail.com/colorado-ral...

As reports spread Tuesday that schools are no longer off-limits for immigration enforcement action, school leaders in the Denver metro area had just shared plans for how to respond if immigration agents show up at schools. From @yeseniarobles.bsky.social @chalkbeat.org Colorado

The oligarchs are coming for our public lands. See what you unleashed by going against everything you believed in back in the 60s? www.realvail.com/opinion-our-...

Coloradans need to keep an eye on what Utah officials want to do to our favorite playgrounds next door. Dodged a bullet with SCOTUS refusing to let them take over federal lands there but now they're eyeing the Antiquities Act for mining and drilling: www.realvail.com/utah-officia...

I was really hoping for a Bills-Lions SB so one could finally win it but injuries finally caught up to Detroit. Go Bills. Please beat Ravens then Chiefs.

Just saw a mainstream news report wondering if Biden will be remembered for allowing Trump to be reelected the way Nixon is remembered for Watergate. A better question is whether Trump will be remembered for Jan. 6 and other crimes he'll commit over the next four years while avoiding prosecution.

It was nearly two years between Biden's inauguration in January of 2021 and AG Merrick Garland appointing Jack Smith in November of 2022. Yes, Trump-stacked SCOTUS gummed up the works, but Garland bears full responsibility: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

ICYMI, my latest on Colorado passenger rail proposals in Colorado Springs Gazette: gazette.com/news/passeng...

Don't worry, Aspen, the Justice Department won't let Vail Resorts buy you, and they barely let Alterra buy A-Basin. Of course, that was the Biden DOJ. Who knows under Trump. www.aspendailynews.com/opinion/semp...

Hurry up and make up your mind, Prime. I've got a CU senior about to graduate and a high school senior who's already been accepted but is weighing other schools. Need to know soon. JK. www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...

My latest O. Zone rant on RealVail.com: www.realvail.com/the-o-zone-q...

So now we're just China threatening Taiwan. What is the point of this? If for some reason the Panama Canal is threatened (including by climate change) is there any doubt the US Navy will intervene? Same with Greenland strategically? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

90% of the electricity in my house comes from renewable sources thanks to the incredible turnaround by Holy Cross Energy. My semiannual appearance in the Vail Daily courtesy of their Vail Valley Magazine: www.vaildaily.com/news/vail-ge...