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

• Ken Gordon: Unleash the power of the Internets!

  published Jun 25, 2010

  Former state lawmaker Ken Gordon is a passionate advocate of online communication, particularly emerging social media, as a powerful tool in the service of democracy. In bursts of electronic energy, k... More >>

• Scott McInnis: The waterlogged years (Pt. 3)

  published Jun 23, 2010

  In our continuing analysis of the water musings cranked out by Scott McInnis during his two-year, $300,000 fellowship, one inescapable question emerges -- the same question that confronts the weary sl... More >>

• Scott McInnis: The waterlogged years (Pt. 2)

  published Jun 22, 2010

  We may never know what inspired the Hasan Family Foundation to shell out $300,000 for a series of remarkably slipshod "Musings on Water" by Scott McInnis. But as I pointed out in the first installme... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Paralyzed in a police shooting, Darrell Havens is paying a terrible price for his crimes. So are taxpayers.

  published June 24, 2010

  It was a simple plan. Get the kid to bring a stolen car to an isolated parking lot, then tase his ass and take him down. No chase. No... More >>

• Scott McInnis: The waterlogged years (Pt. 1)

  published Jun 21, 2010

  The blogosphere has been abuzz of late about the news that gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis picked up a $300,000 paycheck as a two-year fellow at the Hasan Family Foundation, mainly for writing a... More >>

• G.I. Jane Norton ready to kick some terrorist ass

  published Jun 17, 2010

  Taking a cue from the Rambo fantasies of Gary Brooks Faulkner, U.S. Senate candidate Jane Norton has revamped her website to suggest she's ready to bring us the head of Osama bin Laden. And that of ... More >>

• Ken Salazar getting tough with BP: Too little too later

  published Jun 16, 2010

  The naming of a former prosecutor to head the scandal-plagued Minerals Management Service, coupled with President Barack Obama's lackluster but occasionally pugnacious speech about making British Petr... More >>

• Do you have what it takes to design a wildlife bridger

  published Jun 15, 2010

  Friend, do you consider yourself both gifted and greenr Do coworkers refer to you, without a hint of mockery, as some kind of ecogeniusr Do you spend time wondering not why the doe crosses the road, ... More >>

• Ken Salazar: Frustration riding high over his wild horse plan

  published Jun 14, 2010

  While his department's handling of the oil-slick crisis in the Gulf continues to draw scathing criticism and political blowback, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has another ecological headache b... More >>

• Ken Salazar gets boiled in oil by Rolling Stone over BP disaster

  published Jun 11, 2010

  The Obama administration's ever-shifting damage figures and containment strategies for the mess in the Gulf -- not to mention the ever-spewing oil -- have disenchanted many former admirers of the Pres... More >>

• Douglas Bruce was behind scenes of tax-relief measures, concludes judge who fines three

  published Jun 10, 2010

  After a costly effort to unmask the creators of an anonymous website backing three controversial tax-relief issues, an administrative law judge has fined three of the listed proponents of the measures... More >>

• Charlie Sheen's Aspen jail demands: Can't we all just get alongr

  published Jun 09, 2010

  Reports that Charlie Sheen's plea deal on domestic violence charges in Aspen is faltering because he won't be allowed to smoke while on work release have left some of us court-watchers flummoxed. Aft... More >>

• Solitary-confinement report conclusions outrage prison activists

  published Jun 08, 2010

  The release of a twelve-month study about the mental effects of solitary confinement at Colorado's supermax is still weeks away. But preliminary results leaked from the report -- which suggest state ... More >>

• Feral cat problem: An update about fixing it

  published Jun 07, 2010

  The last time I saw Kristen Des Marais, she was trying to track dozens of feral cats that had set up a fast-breeding colony in the crawl spaces under a Denver apartment complex. Des Marais and volunte... More >>

• ACLU settles suit over Denver police complaint records

  published Jun 04, 2010

  On the eve of going to court in its effort to protect internal investigations records of police officers from public scrutiny, the City of Denver has agreed to settle a lawsuit by forking over many of... More >>

• Ken Salazar still in hot seat -- but with lots of company

  published Jun 02, 2010

  Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar is still getting roundly pummeled in the press over the Obama administration's response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster. But there's increasing evide... More >>

• Ken Salazar under fire: Can he survive the spillr

  published May 28, 2010

  It was fairly predictable that Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar would emerge as the whipping-boy of conservative pundits over the Deepwater Horizon spill. What better symbol of the alleged impot... More >>

• BP spill flow much worse than we estimated, says United States Geological Survey director

  published May 27, 2010

  It's official: Even with the corrective measures British Petroleum is undertaking to try to contain the oil leak flowing into the Gulf of Mexico, the massive spill has been flowing at a rate two to fo... More >>

• Bill Ritter's baby steps toward prison reform

  published May 26, 2010

  After the embarrasing political scrum over the sex offender bill that prompted Governor Bill Ritter to veto the mess last week, it's easy to overlook the fact that something was actually accomplished ... More >>

• Ken Salazar fumes, hair booms nixed: Gulf spill update

  published May 25, 2010

  As oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster begins to stain shorelines along the Gulf Coast, beauticians across the nation are learning that one of the more feel-good (and dubious) solutions proposed i... More >>

• "Labia lift" and other humiliations described in letter from prison

  published May 24, 2010

  As any viewer of MSNBC's Lockup knows, prison is about punishment, plain and simple, not rehabilitation or even "correction." But does that mean it has to be dehumanizing, toor Put aside the sadistic... More >>

• Ken Salazar's shakeup at Interior: Where will it all endr

  published May 20, 2010

  In the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil slick disaster, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar is barreling ahead in his efforts to reform the embattled Minerals Management Service, the once-obscure a... More >>

• WeHireAliens.com not for job hunters -- or John Hickenlooper

  published May 19, 2010

  Amid the white-hot debates raging over Arizona's new immigration law, it's harder than ever to separate the spluttering from the substance when it comes to immigration policy. Especially if you're try... More >>

• Paolo Bacigalupi wins Nebula for The Windup Girl

  published May 18, 2010

  Paonia's Paolo Bacigalupi, profiled in Westword as "the hottest writer in sci-fi" a couple of weeks ago, just got hotter. His first novel, The Windup Girl, just won the 2010 Nebula Award for Best Nove... More >>

• Ken Salazar: Lessons on the Gulf spill from Denver's own "toxic horror"

  published May 17, 2010

  Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has been spending a lot of time on the Gulf Coast lately, dealing with the noxious plumes (environmental and political) spewing from the Deepwater Horizon oil lea... More >>