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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2009 Stories by Alan Prendergast

• In the Colorado House, leaders must be followers

  published Dec 31, 2009

  You might think that the departure of a rising star among state Democrats would be a bigger deal than this Post story suggests, but state representative Kathleen Curry and party leaders seem eager to ... More >>

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  Charlie Sheen's lack of charges: Only in Aspenr

  published Dec 29, 2009

  Last time I checked, Aspen was still nominally associated with the rest of Colorado. But its legal system sometimes has about as much to do with what happens elsewhere in the state as, well, the micro... More >>

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  John Ramsey's hunt for suspicious characters

  published Dec 28, 2009

  It wouldn't be the holiday season without the annual appeal from John Ramsey for help solving the 1996 murder of his six-year-old daughter, JonBenet. Check out the latest announcement on his Fair Jus... More >>

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  Top 10 Colorado feuds of the decade

  published Dec 22, 2009

  Most people just go along to get along. But every once in a while a hellacious disagreement -- about principle, turf, money, or who cut the cheese -- makes for an old-fashioned Western display of roo... More >>

• Pooch + pacemaker = Merry Xmas

  published Dec 22, 2009

  Meet Guido. He is quite possibly the luckiest dog in all of Adams County -- because of all the costly and peculiar gifts people lavish on their pets this time of year, Guido got the best one of all. ... More >>

• Three things not to be: A prison guard, pregnant and charged with rape

  published Dec 18, 2009

  Corrections officers aren't supposed to brutalize the inmates in their custody, but they're not encouraged to be too fond of them, either. The system frowns on "inappropriate relationships" between st... More >>

• Designers! Get wild on Vail Pass!

  published Dec 17, 2009

  The campaign to construct a wildlife bridge over I-70 near West Vail Pass got a major boost this week when the site was selected as the focus for a new, international design competition of wildlife cr... More >>

• Wild horses can't drag Sheryl Crow off Ken Salazar's back

  published Dec 16, 2009

  Weeks before a scheduled government roundup of 2,500 wild mustangs in Nevada, horse advocates are bringing out the big guns in an effort to stop or delay the operation. They're filing lawsuits and sta... More >>

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  This one-man crime wave is going a hundred miles down a dead-end street

  published December 17, 2009

  Victor Arnold Gabler talks fast. Faster than a play-by-play announcer or a cattle auctioneer. Faster than John "Mighty Mouth" Moschitta,... More >>

• Death-penalty prosecutors want to kill David Lane's rhetoric in regard to trying to kill Edward Montour

  published Dec 14, 2009

  In the battle over resentencing Edward Montour Jr., an inmate who faces possible execution for the 2002 murder of a corrections officer at the Limon prison, defense attorney David Lane has accused the... More >>

• Attorney regulators love "egosurfing" critic's website

  published Dec 11, 2009

  Sean Harrington, the do-it-yourself litigator behind the contentious website KnowYourCourts, has been a relentless scourge of judicial excess and abusive attorneys in Colorado, whether battling his ow... More >>

• Revenge of the gadflies: Douglas Bruce and Mike Zinna win free-speech verdicts

  published Dec 10, 2009

  How odd, yet oddly fitting, that this week two of the state's most dogged and outspoken government critics won key victories in separate courtrooms within hours of each other. Call it a blow for... ou... More >>

• Top-notch topos now free from USGS

  published Dec 08, 2009

  Finding the right map for the trip at hand has always posed certain hard choices. Do you go for one heavy on the topography contours, or one with legible road numbersr Hydrographic features or better ... More >>

• Grim details emerge in prison death of sex offender

  published Dec 04, 2009

  Last week, we reported on the bludgeoning death of inmate Ronald Ferguson, a convicted child molester, at the Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility outside of Canon City. A fifty-year-old habitu... More >>

• Defiant attorney awaits cold day in hell for psych exam

  published Dec 02, 2009

  When a state disciplinary judge suspended Mark Brennan's license to practice law for a year, finding that he intentionally engaged in "obstreperous behavior" in winning a $1.2 million federal verdict ... More >>

• Worth the drive: Author David Quammen speaks in Colorado Springs tonight

  published Dec 01, 2009

  To call David Quammen a nature writer seems somehow inadequate. Yes, he's a whiz at crafting crisp, clear prose about the secret world of spoonworms and busting popular myths about dinosaurs and all ... More >>

• Can thieves working harder, earning less

  published Nov 30, 2009

  The guy was in front of my house for maybe thirty seconds. He rooted around in the blue cart, emerged with a couple of metal cans -- not even high-grade aluminum -- and tossed them in the back of his ... More >>

• Josh McDaniels F-bombs and the history of motivational rhetoric

  published Nov 27, 2009

  We'll leave it to the shrinks and pundits to try to figure out which Broncos team is going to show up in Kansas City next week. Will it be the upstarts who shocked just about everybody for six gamesr ... More >>

• Ken Salazar under fire from energy producers and horse lovers

  published Nov 25, 2009

  You just can't please some people, especially if you happen to be the Secretary of the Interior. Sure, the job has some neat perks--all those trips to national parks and press conferences at glaciers ... More >>

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  MSNBC's prison-reality show and the death of a pedophile

  published Nov 25, 2009

  Lockup, MSNBC's voyeuristic peek at life inside America's nastiest prisons, launched its new season Saturday (*corrected) night with some cell floodings and tough talk by thick-necked inmates at Color... More >>

• Feline Fetish: How cat lovers turn into cat hoarders

  published November 19, 2009

  To the uninitiated, managing a feral colony may sound like something that slightly demented cat fanciers do in the privacy of their own homes... More >>

• Fixers, feeders, and the strange, hidden world of feral cats

  published November 19, 2009

  Kristin Des Marais crouches in the damp and shines a flashlight into the vast crawl space beneath the apartment building. The light sweeps... More >>

• Two ex-cons' choices: Go straight or straight to hell

  published Nov 17, 2009

  The movies teach us that there are good guys and bad guys -- and then there are bad guys named Angel, as in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. But two new books by former Colorado prisoners trace wildly ... More >>

• Check out the sweet skullduggery at the Denver Public Library

  published Nov 16, 2009

  Halloween is long gone, but the Day of the Dead is a holiday that keeps on giving. An exhibit in the grand hall of the downtown Denver Public Library features staff-produced riffs on the tradition of ... More >>

• Thanksgiving comes early at struggling Colfax Thrift Store

  published Nov 12, 2009

  Somehow Ron Angotti has survived his first two months in the helping business --despite running the cheapest, strangest and probably most imperiled thrift store on West Colfax. His Colfax Thrift Stor... More >>