Email Author Alan Prendergast

Awards

• 2011 - Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism, published February 11, 2010

  "You're in Bad Hands"

• 2011 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published September 30, 2010

  "Black Out"

• 2011 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published November 4, 2010

  "Like an Open Book"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published February 11, 2010

  "You're in Bad Hands"

• 2011 - Society of Professional Journalists/Colorado Chapter, published February 11, 2010

  "You're in Bad Hands"

• 2010 - National Council on Crime and Delinquency/Prevention for a Safer Society Award, published October 22, 2009

  "The Quality of Mercy"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published May 14, 2009

  "The Giveaway"

• 2010 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published February 11, 2010

  "You're in Bad Hands"

• 2009 - Society of Professional Journalists/Colorado Chapter, published April 10, 2008

  "Miles and Miles"

• 2008 - Sigma Delta Chi Awards/Society of Professional Journalists, published August 16, 2007

  "The Caged Life"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published February 8, 2007

  "The Punisher"

• 2006 - National Council on Crime and Delinquency/Prevention for a Safer Society Award, published December 8, 2005

  "Catch-16"

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published May 12, 2005

  "If the Shoe Fits"

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published June 23, 2005

  "Welcome to America"

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published September 8, 2005

  "Duke of Oil"

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1995 Stories by Alan Prendergast

• RUNAWAY TRAIN

  published December 13, 1995

  part 2 of 2 Jon Caldara lives on Arapahoe Avenue in Boulder. Every fifteen minutes or so, an RTD bus rumbles by his house. Caldara has never... More >>

• RUNAWAY TRAINCONGRESS SPURNED IT, STATE LAWMAKERS SCORN IT, BUT CAN ANYBODY PUT THE BRAKES ON LIGHT RAIL?

  published December 13, 1995

  part 1 of 2 The train pulls away from the Broadway Marketplace station with a meek oomph of acceleration, headed for downtown. It ascends... More >>

• MAXIMUM INSECURITY

  published November 29, 1995

  In the wake of a series of uprisings at federal penitentiaries across the country last month, jittery officials seem determined to crack down on... More >>

• THE WOMEN OF SUPERMAX

  published November 8, 1995

  Colorado doesn't believe in mollycoddling its prisoners. Just ask officials at the Colorado State Penitentiary (CSP), the chillingly futuristic,... More >>

• BURIED TREASURE

  published November 8, 1995

  When Anne McGill Gorsuch married Robert Burford back in 1983, it seemed like a match made in Republican heaven: the Ice Queen and the Marlboro... More >>

• THE BRICO REQUIEM

  published November 1, 1995

  part 1 of 2 Dan Frantz remembers The Gaze--that piercing, dark-eyed stare that made prodigies tremble and old tenors sing their lungs out. The... More >>

• NAMELESS BEHAVIOR

  published October 18, 1995

  In the wake of mounting criticism over a state policy of keeping hospital death records secret, Colorado Attorney General Gale Norton recently... More >>

• HUNTING RABBITS, SERVING SPAM: THE NET UNDER SIEGE

  published October 4, 1995

  The growing popularity of the Internet has spawned discussion groups that offer something for just about everyone, from lovers of Jean-Luc Picard... More >>

• STALKING THE NET

  published October 4, 1995

  Lawrence Wollersheim's hands shake as he reads his notes, ticking off the damage done to his computers. Surrounding the 46-year-old Boulder... More >>

• DOUBLE EXPOSUREUNDERAGE GIRLS, A NAZI WITH A CAMERA, AND PARTYING COPS--WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?

  published September 20, 1995

  The letters arrived in the third week of May. They came in the mail, dozens of them, addressed to city council members, county commissioners,... More >>

• A SOARING PAYROLL

  published September 13, 1995

  Bill Loeffler first stepped into an airport information booth in 1986. He's stayed there for one reason: public contact. "I see everybody... More >>

• END OF THE LINE

  published July 12, 1995

  part 1 of 2 Raymond Luc Levasseur arrived at his new Colorado home in February. Shackled and under heavy guard, accompanied by one other... More >>

• END OF THE LINE

  published July 12, 1995

  part 2 of 2 Oscar Lopez Rivera arrived at ADX in January. He says his first two months there were the hardest time he's ever done. At... More >>