Greg Dobbs

Jul 2, 2024 | vaildaily.com | Greg Dobbs

When I’m riding on the bike trails through Vail, or to the top of Vail Pass and back, two things drive me crazy. Both are about helmets. One is, that I see more people on bikes without helmets than with them. To be clear, when it comes to bicycle helmet laws, there is a medley across the country. Some states require anyone on a bike to wear one. Some require them only on riders younger than 18 and, in some states, younger than 16. But some states don’t require them at all, and we are one of them.

Mar 29, 2024 | vaildaily.com | Greg Dobbs

It seems the police get criticized as much as they get credit. This column is about credit. Kudos to the Colorado State Patrol and the Eagle County Sheriff’s Office for some sensational sleuthing. After a fatal nighttime hit and run back on Jan. 7 of a bicyclist on Highway 6 between Edwards and Avon, law enforcement didn’t have a lot to go on.

Feb 26, 2024 | gregdobbs.substack.com | Greg Dobbs

Ronald Reagan would weep for America. That’s what his daughter says. I think she’s right. I covered Reagan as a candidate and, during his presidency, on some of his foreign trips. He was a decent man. He loved his country. His politics and policies weren’t to my liking, but he was a decent man. And more. When he reached agreement with the Soviets to reduce the nuclear threat, he was a practical man. When he put the first woman ever, Sandra Day O’Conner, on the Supreme Court, he was a fair man.

Jan 22, 2024 | gregdobbs.substack.com | Greg Dobbs

Now that we are into the process of presidential primaries, with the first actual primary election tomorrow, my thoughts go back to three of my own memorable experiences during the very first election year I ever covered, which was (OMG) 1972. So here they are, those three stories, a behind-the-scenes look at the kinds of curves the campaign trail can throw at you. And did throw at me.

Oct 6, 2023 | vaildaily.com | Greg Dobbs

If you’ve even glanced over as you’ve driven up Interstate 70 at the top of Vail Pass, you know that the rest area at the summit is closed. It has been for a year-and-a-half now, since the spring of 2022, when the Colorado Department of Transportation announced that it would shut down at the beginning of May, that it would be torn up and rebuilt over the course of two years, and that it would reopen this October. It hasn’t, it’s not going to, and I’ve wondered why.