Trailblazers: Bipartisan to the core, Rod Slifer showed the way for Vail and the nation

Trailblazers: Bipartisan to the core, Rod Slifer showed the way for Vail and the nation

Editor’s note #1: This is the 14th installment in a series highlighting the Vail Public Library’s Vail Valley Voices Collection of oral-history interviews featuring prominent local figures and conducted by the Vail Library’s Lynn Albers, the Vail Daily’s Tony Mauro and David O. Williams and sometimes other local journalists. During the COVID-19 lockdown, I interviewed Vail’s first local realtor and former Vail Mayor Rod Slifer by phone a half do…