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"

More

1996 Stories by Alan Prendergast

• The Circle Game

  published December 19, 1996

  Oscar Lopez Rivera knew what he had to do to get out of the toughest penitentiary in the entire federal system. He had to endure 22-hour-a-day... More >>

• The Fall Guy

  published December 5, 1996

  One might suppose that Jacob Stone is the king of klutz, the big kahuna of bad luck. That would explain how, back in March 1991, he happened to... More >>

• Mental Anguish

  published December 5, 1996

  Ask Sam Haigler how things are going and he'll give you that perplexed look, the one that seems to ask: What planet are you from, pal? Twenty... More >>

• Unfinished Business

  published October 31, 1996

  In past years, the Regional Transportation District board elections have had all the political excitement and heart-pounding suspense of a Ross... More >>

• Motion to Dismiss

  published October 24, 1996

  Attorney Tom Handley remembers the case: a hand-to-hand drug deal behind Argonaut Liquors on East Colfax. Another lawyer in his office had worked... More >>

• Last Ditch Effort

  published October 3, 1996

  Growing up in the 1950s on the outskirts of what was then east Aurora, Robert Michael Pyle discovered a child's paradise a short walk from his... More >>

• Virtual Ruckus

  published September 26, 1996

  C. Lodge, executive director of Adult Care Management, considers himself an innovative guy. He talks about breaking away from "the patriarchal... More >>

• Shut Up and Deal

  published September 19, 1996

  Ruth Blackmore leads a few of her south Boulder neighbors on a field trip, down a path she's taken many, many times before. The excursion begins... More >>

• Wheels of Fortune

  published August 29, 1996

  Down at the Regional Transportation District's lofty LoDo headquarters, good help has never been hard to find. The pay at the troubled transit... More >>

• Taking It to the Max

  published August 22, 1996

  The attorney for the plaintiff wore a khaki jumpsuit and leg irons. Most of the witnesses were merely disembodied voices in the air. The audience,... More >>

• This Jail for Hire

  published August 8, 1996

  The Insiders The Colorado Department of Corrections has spent millions of dollars in recent years to accommodate its new crop of "special... More >>

• See Dick Run. Run, Dick, Run!

  published July 18, 1996

  "Look, on this whole issue of running for President, I'm not trying to be coy at all. In fact, I want to be very direct with you. Running for... More >>

• The Sins of Youth

  published July 18, 1996

  The Insiders In the overcrowded Colorado prison system, corrections officials face a new breed of customer: the special-needs inmate. Much... More >>

• Isn't It Romantic?

  published July 4, 1996

  In one of the stranger tests of the University of Colorado's new get-tough policy on sexual harassment, an internal committee has found "no... More >>

• Speak No Evil

  published June 20, 1996

  John Deans learned a hard lesson about office politics: Be careful what you say about your boss. Particularly if you're a federal employee... More >>

• Fear and Groping in Boulder

  published June 6, 1996

  Jennifer Miller had put up with all she was going to take. An employee of the University of Colorado for almost thirty years, she'd risen from the... More >>

• Mystery Train

  published May 16, 1996

  The sun refused to appear last Thursday morning at the Regional Transportation District's light-rail station at I-25 and Broadway, but nobody... More >>

• Adding Insult to Injury

  published May 9, 1996

  We help injured people...that's our job!" "I know how to handle insurance companies; I used to be their attorney!" "I will fight for... More >>

• Dear *#%&!!

  published April 25, 1996

  When Karen Jenkins went to work for a market-research company a few years ago, she expected to spend her time talking to consumers about their... More >>

• Winging It

  published April 11, 1996

  When Phil Burgess gets up to speak, he doesn't just take the floor. He takes the whole room--floor, walls, ceiling, people and every last scrap of... More >>

• Wire Me Up, Wire Me Down

  published March 21, 1996

  In the cross-wired, deeply incestuous world of communications conglomerates, nothing lasts forever. Telegiants swap partners with abandon; today's... More >>

• Take My Bus - Please.

  published March 14, 1996

  Take your pick: Either the Regional Transportation District is in the process of paying $15 million too much to buy a bunch of used buses, or the... More >>

• Mean Spirits

  published February 29, 1996

  All Alex Pappas wanted was a liquor store. All his neighbors wanted was for him to sell his booze somewhere else. Out of that fundamental... More >>

• Apocalypse Now (But First, a Word From Our Sponsors)

  published February 22, 1996

  Ask religious broadcasters, from the elfin Pat Robertson to the funky Reverend Ike, and they'll tell you: Doing the Lord's work takes plenty of... More >>

• WHERE'S THE BEEFCAKE?

  published January 31, 1996

  Reyel Simmons knew he was in trouble when his mother-in-law told him about the poster she'd seen at her nail salon--the one that screamed... More >>