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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1998 Stories by Alan Prendergast

• A Matter of Principal

  published December 17, 1998

  When two South High School journalism students attempted to cover a fight in a school parking lot last month, only to have their film seized by... More >>

• The Killing Floor

  published December 10, 1998

  Michael Garcia must have known he would die in prison. But no one expected that his death would come so soon, in front of so many people. ... More >>

• The Hayward Bus

  published November 19, 1998

  Dianne Tramutola-Lawson no longer slings French verbs for a living, but the former Lincoln High language instructor still has the occasional... More >>

• One-Track Minds

  published October 29, 1998

  Have a Little Confidence In the grim, sometimes goofy race for seven seats on the Regional Transportation District's board of directors,... More >>

• Uncivil Rites

  published October 8, 1998

  The halls of the Federal Building in downtown Denver are lined with helpful bulletins advising visitors of their right to a hassle-free workplace.... More >>

• Horse Sense

  published September 24, 1998

  When Robin Bowman gets a notion to start something, wild horses can't stop her. In fact, for the idea she's exploring right now, the horses could... More >>

• Dismal House

  published September 3, 1998

  The way he tells it, Robert Francis Sylvester became an instrument of God one day in the spring of 1988. He was sitting in a jail cell in Arapahoe... More >>

• Hard Cell

  published August 20, 1998

  This is how Department of Corrections spokeswoman Liz McDonough describes the events of last June at the Colorado State Penitentiary, during which... More >>

• Fortress of Solitude

  published August 6, 1998

  For the moment, Sergeant Attila Denes of the Douglas County Sheriff's Office is a prisoner of his own department's top-notch security. He waves... More >>

• The Final Frontier

  published July 30, 1998

  Dressed in shorts and a short-sleeved golf shirt, his face flushed with sun and wind, Dave Liniger roams his Denver Tech Center offices this... More >>

• Good Grieve!

  published July 9, 1998

  Two attorneys can live in a town where one cannot," proverb collector V.S. Lean noted a century ago. Colorado's booming economy has brought... More >>

• Bad Company

  published July 9, 1998

  Everyone heard the explosion. It sounded like someone had detonated a cherry bomb behind the apartment. A man named Bud opened the back door to... More >>

• Hard Lessons

  published June 18, 1998

  Eleven men sit in a circle, giving each other the feather. Three feathers, to be exact--stiff, brightly colored plumes that are passed from... More >>

• No Way to Treat a Lady: Victims Get Busted, Too

  published June 18, 1998

  Krystal was getting ready to go to her weekly batterer class when her husband threw a glass of water in her face, called her a slut and took her... More >>

• Uneasy Street

  published May 21, 1998

  In those places that tourists come from--Dubuque, Topeka, Lincoln, Rapid City--they're already gassing up the Winnebagos and planning that... More >>

• Zero for Conduct

  published April 23, 1998

  Joseph C'de Baca can see where this is going. He was supposed to be the third speaker on the agenda for the Denver Public Schools monthly... More >>

• A Lack of Supporting Evidence

  published April 16, 1998

  Last year, under pressure from the federal government, the Colorado General Assembly finally passed a measure that had been kicked around for... More >>

• Inn Trouble

  published March 26, 1998

  The whole mess may have started with an argument over carpets. Or maybe it had to do with a few hundred dollars' worth of phone calls. No matter... More >>

• The Killer and Mrs. Johnson

  published March 19, 1998

  On the morning of December 17, 1992, a rangy freshman named Jacob Ind was pulled out of his first-hour class at Woodland Park High School by... More >>

• Justice Misplaced

  published February 19, 1998

  Last Christmas wasn't merry for Arlee Martin and her daughter Rose Warren. A teenage employee of Foley's Cherry Creek department store not only... More >>

• Profits of Doom

  published February 12, 1998

  The first time Russell Welty heard about the Year 2000 Problem--also known as the Millennium Bug or, in programmer jargon, Y2K--it sounded simple.... More >>

• Reach Out and Gouge Someone

  published February 5, 1998

  Make no mistake about it, the inmates in the Colorado Department of Corrections are paying dearly for their crimes. So are their families. Just... More >>

• Walter Gerash

  published January 29, 1998

  He lurks in the bad dreams of hungry prosecutors and hidebound judges, a caped avenger in bolo tie and maroon beret. The cameras catch him exiting... More >>

• City of Hype

  published January 22, 1998

  Smiling, frosted-haired matrons, their teeth capped in orange and blue. A naked man in a barrel making a heartfelt plea for playoff tickets.... More >>