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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2010 Stories by Alan Prendergast

• Philip Greaves: Amazon dumps Pueblo author's The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure

  published Nov 11, 2010

  After two weeks of outraged protests and threats of boycott, Amazon finally pulled a self-published e-book by a Pueblo man that proposed certain "non-injurious rules" for pedophiles to follow in their... More >>

• Top five ways to improve One Book, One Denver -- and great Colorado authors to consider

  published Nov 08, 2010

  For years this space has been the repository of staff rants about the weird selections made by the city's One Book, One Denver program -- most of which have little or nothing to do with Colorado and s... More >>

• Andrew Gelston Graham: A walk to remember CU grad in unsolved homicide

  published Nov 05, 2010

  It was a year ago this Saturday night that Andrew Gelston Graham, a 23-year-old University of Colorado grad who threw a mean Frisbee and loved poetry and music, was killed by a single gunshot wound a ... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Sources: Pat Bowlen no longer Broncos' major decision maker amid "memory loss" questions

  published Nov 05, 2010

  For months commentators have been engaged in a coded whisper campaign about Denver Broncos owner Pat Bowlen's health and diminished role in the organization. As the 2-6 team staggers into a bye week a... More >>

• Paolo Bacigalupi: Colorado's top NBA prospectr

  published Nov 04, 2010

  Forget Carmelo Anthony. Our hopes for NBA glory this season are riding on Paolo Bacigalupi, a gifted but not particularly tall sensation from Paonia. That's NBA as in the National Book Awards. And fo... More >>

• Jay Ledbetter v. Michael Dobersen: Testy Arapahoe coroner race ends in a dead heat

  published Nov 03, 2010

  Update: As of Wednesday at 5 pm, Dobersen's margin of victory had dropped to under 300 votes. A mandatory recount is expected. And you thought the Buck-Bennett race was a squeakerr It may be days b... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Sixteen years after his death, not-so-famous novelist John Williams is finding his audience

  published November 4, 2010

  It was 1962 when Joanne Greenberg started getting curious about a writer named John Williams. In those days, what passed for Denver's literary... More >>

• Xcel's move away from coal: One step ahead of the fedsr

  published Nov 02, 2010

  Xcel's evolving proposal to retire several aged coal-fired power plants to comply with a tough new Colorado law has been hailed as bold and innovative. But similar plans may soon be cropping up around... More >>

• Michael Bennet-Ken Buck duel: Are they running out of ammo at the showdownr

  published Nov 01, 2010

  It may be the closest political contest of any consequence anywhere in the country. It's certainly one of the most expensive. As the U.S. Senate battle between Ken Buck and incumbent Michael Bennet ... More >>

• Fidel Ramos: The death of a prison activist

  published Oct 28, 2010

  Fidel Ramos was a criminal and a drug addict. He was also a smart and fearless man who had a central role in forcing the State of Colorado to transform its prisons from hellholes into something more h... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Shawn Mitchell: Lawmaker admits inability to focus and personal "demons" affecting his work

  published Oct 27, 2010

  In an unusual court filing, state senator and prominent GOP campaigner Shawn Mitchell states that his battle with anxiety and depression has made it difficult to get work done in his law practice and ... More >>

• Libby Szabo: Campaign flier attacking Sara Gagliardi adds insult to injury for hep C patient

  published Oct 26, 2010

  We can expect plenty of over-the-top negative ads and low blows in the next few days as this gruesome election cycle enters its final days. But a mailer sent out by Republican statehouse candidate Lib... More >>

• Bloody vomit, medical neglect and more in Matt Malloy prison lawsuit filed by DU students

  published Oct 21, 2010

  Complaints of substandard health care in the Colorado prison system are nothing new, but a newly filed lawsuit by one inmate, alleging that he was neglected in his cell while vomiting blood for three ... More >>

• Prison advice about snitching, shanks and pretending that man with makeup is a woman

  published Oct 19, 2010

  Here at the Criminal Affairs Desk, we get letters from inmates. Boy, do we get letters. But one recent missive from a Colorado prisoner offers some of the best advice we've ever heard for negotiating ... More >>

• Boulder commuters drive less, bike a lot, feel more virtuous -- but should theyr

  published Oct 18, 2010

  Recent U.S. Census Bureau data shows that barely half of Boulder's work force get to their jobs driving alone -- a significant reduction in the number of solo commuters that puts the green-minded comm... More >>

• Amendments 60-61, Prop 101 backers fight "nonsense" with baffling cartoons seen here

  published Oct 11, 2010

  The folks behind Amendments 60 and 61 and Proposition 101, the three tax-slashing ballot proposals that a wide array of opponents are fighting with a multi-million-dollar ad blitz, are pretty upset wi... More >>

• Wild horses in Colorado: ASPCA, other groups file suit to block roundups of two herds

  published Oct 08, 2010

  For years, the Bureau of Land Management has been aiming to remove substantial numbers of northwest Colorado's remaining wild horses -- despite a federal judge's ruling last year that the agency has f... More >>

• Stan Garnett-John Suthers race (and others) get brutal thanks to serial killers and smears

  published Oct 06, 2010

  "Who would you rather have protecting your The man who unleashed a serial killer on Colorado, or Stan Garnett -- the man who put the killer awayr" That tag line from a new attack ad in the Colorado A... More >>

• Nick Sculac: Serenity Springs tiger sanctuary operator scammed $40,000 from volunteer

  published Oct 04, 2010

  There's more than one way to get mauled at a big-cat sanctuary. After he was attacked by a tiger at the Serenity Springs Wildlife Center last year, a volunteer then had the bite put on him by the re... More >>

• Ken Salazar gets a vote of confidence (sort of) from Barack Obama despite remaining messes

  published Sep 30, 2010

  In an interview in the October 15 issue of Rolling Stone, President Barack Obama defends his administration's overhaul of the Department of the Interior amid agency scandals and outrage over the Gulf ... More >>

• Scott Kimball: Serial killer questions dog John Suthers' campaign

  published Sep 29, 2010

  Candidates for public office often have to worry about skeletons in their closet. But in the race for Colorado Attorney General, it's the bodies buried by ex-government informant Scott Kimball that co... More >>

• Xcel's plan to convert its coal plants sparks an energetic debate

  published September 30, 2010

  There was no shortage of opinions as the Public Utilities Commission took testimony from an overflow crowd about the state's energy future last... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Black out: Lamar gets steamed over a troubled coal plant -- right in the middle of town

  published September 30, 2010

  Cliff Warren is a man who minds his own business. That's what he was doing around 1 a.m. one night in July last year, the night of the Big... More >>

• Bob Boswell, state rep hopeful: Is his plea for lobbyist cash honest, stupid or just plain greedyr

  published Sep 28, 2010

  A series of letters from Bob Boswell, Republican candidate for state representative, urging lobbyists to "align yourselves and your clients" with his campaign, has prompted widespread cackling on poli... More >>

• "Labia lift" strip searches: ACLU action gooses prison officials into changing degrading policy

  published Sep 27, 2010

  Even under the best of circumstances, prison is an exercise in humiliation. But life just got a little less nasty for female inmates at the Denver Women's Correctional Facility, who no longer have to ... More >>