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 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published February 8, 2007

  "The Punisher"

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

  "The Caged Life"

• 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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2010 Stories by Alan Prendergast

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  FEATURED STORY

  Tom Tancredo to start yakking on "Tea Party Radio"

  published Dec 30, 2010

  The gin-soaked novelist who declared that there are no second acts in American lives never caught the many acts of Tom Tancredo -- former U.S. Representative, presidential hopeful, gubernatorial spoil... More >>

• Douglas Bruce, fined and MIA

  published Dec 29, 2010

  An administrative law judge has slapped an $11,300 fine on a charity set up by anti-tax crusader Douglas Bruce--the latest chapter in the murky maneuvering behind three tax-slashing amendments that op... More >>

• Ken Salazar: Why his "wild lands" policy has the GOP going wild

  published Dec 28, 2010

  Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar clearly wanted to make a splash when he unveiled his new "wild lands" policy last week--two days before Christmas (slow news week), at a press conference outside ... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Bill Ritter plays it safe on pardons

  published Dec 27, 2010

  In their last days in office, some governors have been known to make bold moves in the criminal justice arena, denouncing ruinous policies and commuting long sentences as a way of highlighting unfair ... More >>

• LEGO my library: Imagine Rigney's cool homage to Michael Graves

  published Dec 22, 2010

  Kids do the darnedest things with LEGO bricks and games, as Joel Warner pointed out in this feature last January. But few projects are quite the labor of love involved in one fifteen-year-old devotee'... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Phillip Greaves: Author of pedophile's guide busted by thought police

  published Dec 21, 2010

  If Phillip Ray Greaves II was looking for a life of uneventful obscurity, the 47-year-old Pueblo author wouldn't have self-published The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-lover's Code of... More >>

• Earl Reum: Remembering the funniest guy in town

  published Dec 20, 2010

  You could groan at all his time-tested jokes and silly props -- the red nose, the garish ties, the tiny kazoo and corny sight gags -- and still end up howling with laughter and holding your aching sid... More >>

• MapQuest's new error-reporting tool for "neighborhood watch" not quite error-free

  published Dec 17, 2010

  MapQuest, the AOL-owned online mapping service with strong Denver ties, has unveiled a new site that's supposed to encourage users to contribute data and correct errors in its maps -- a kind of cartog... More >>

• Auntie Anne operator cries foul over Denver International Airport's plan for concessionaires

  published Dec 14, 2010

  The uproar over the forthcoming billion-dollar makeover at Denver International Airport, including a new hotel and train station, has focused largely on the price tag and the potential hike in air far... More >>

• Rescue dogs now top grads with jobs in service industry

  published Dec 13, 2010

  In these dark economic times, it's a relief to learn that at least some hard-working students are moving straight from graduation to immediate and steady employment in a booming industry. Qualificati... More >>

• Peter Spitz blinding: Read doctors' report on why shooter Teresa Lynn is "better" now

  published Dec 09, 2010

  Less than two years after Teresa Lynn was found not guilty by reason of insanity for the murder of her mother-in-law and the blinding of her husband, her treatment team at the Colorado Mental Health ... More >>

• Video: Peter Spitz tells how his wife shot him in the face while he was asleep

  published Dec 08, 2010

  Six years ago, Peter Spitz's wife, Teresa, shot him three times in his face while he slept, then killed his mother. Spitz woke up blind. The attack and its aftermath are the subject of this week's c... More >>

• John Elway: Future Broncos head coach or armchair quarterbackr

  published Dec 07, 2010

  Now that Denver Broncos management has given Josh McDaniels the heave-ho, the orange hordes are laying odds on the chances of the team's most celebrated quarterback returning to the team as head coach... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Madness and murder didn't kill Peter Spitz's love for the wife who blinded him

  published December 9, 2010

  People stare as Peter Spitz feels his way into the restaurant. They're not looking at him, exactly. What they see is not the man, but... More >>

• Wild horse battle over Ken Salazar's disputed roundup plan comes to Boulder tonight

  published Dec 06, 2010

  Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar's plan to reduce wild horse herds on public lands and relocate thousands of mustangs to preserves back East has triggered protests of roundups across the West -- ... More >>

• West Vail Pass wildlife crossing contest: Bold designs un-Vailed for I-70

  published Dec 02, 2010

  Last night, participants in the Western Governors' Association confab at the Curtis Hotel got a sneak preview of models from the five finalists in an international design competition to build a specia... More >>

• Solitary confinement study "deeply flawed," says ACLU

  published Dec 01, 2010

  As reported here last summer, a controversial state study suggesting no harmful psychological effects from solitary confinement was drawing heated protests from prison activists even before it was pub... More >>

• Drug bust on I-70: The dos and don'ts of transporting meth

  published Nov 29, 2010

  We realize that the average consumer of methamphetamine is ill-suited to traveling Colorado's mountain roads. If said motorist had half a brain left, he or she wouldn't be smoking meth. Yet a recent b... More >>

• Michael Lee Jones: Serial rapist's capture shows magic and limits of DNA tracking

  published Nov 26, 2010

  At six-foot-two-inches and 314 pounds, Michael Lee Jones is one of the larger felons in Colorado's prison system. And now, thanks to a gripping account in the December Vanity Fair of the unusual inves... More >>

• Kristin & Candice Hermeler: Suicide-pact twins' Columbine fascination deeper than admitted

  published Nov 24, 2010

  It didn't make much sense that Candice and Kristin Hermeler would travel halfway across the world to enact a suicide pact at a local gun range -- until reports began to surface about the Australian tw... More >>

• Colorado Mental Health Institute deaths linked to understaffing, poor supervision

  published Nov 22, 2010

  Short staffing, improper restraint procedures and dysfunctional policies contributed to three patient deaths at the state hospital, according to a new report by an independent team of investigators. O... More >>

• Scott McInnis: Top five apologies he can borrow

  published Nov 19, 2010

  Scott McInnis still doesn't quite get how he went from a governor's office shoo-in to a political pariah. He's back in the spotlight, engaging in an act of premature rehabilitation in the Denver Post,... More >>

• Prison frenzy and drug war a huge drag on economy, new report says

  published Nov 17, 2010

  Gustavo Arellano and Tom Tancredo didn't find much common ground in their debate about illegal immigration Tuesday night, but they did agree that the war on drugs has been a very costly failure. A new... More >>

• Anthony Prince: "Dumb and Dumber" bandit's book angers Vail teller

  published Nov 15, 2010

  When two Austrailian snowboarders robbed a bank in Vail on a whim in 2005, then tipped a cabdriver $20,000 in the midst of a lame and ultimately unsuccessful getaway, the inept heist provided fodder f... More >>

• Philip Greaves: Amazon removes other titles by Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure author

  published Nov 12, 2010

  A torrid blast of publicity hasn't exactly boosted sales for Pueblo author Philip R. Greaves II, whose e-book The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-lover's Code of Conduct has drawn deat... More >>