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 Salazar taps "recovery czar" Chris Henderson to fix MMS

  published May 14, 2010

  In the wake of the worst American offshore oil disaster in decades, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar is scrambling on several fronts to address the perception that his administration has been mor... More >>

• Ken Salazar is spinning the Deepwater Horizon debacle

  published May 13, 2010

  The finger-pointing over the massive oil slick threatening the Gulf Coast is spreading almost as fast as the spill itself. While... More >>

• Ken Salazar: Oil spill debacle sparks creation of Yet Another Government Agency

  published May 11, 2010

  In the wake of the offshore rig explosion and massive oil spill threatening the Gulf Coast, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has announced a major shakeup of the Minerals Management Service, the ... More >>

• Jane Norton thrilled to cite New York Times plug that doesn't exist

  published May 10, 2010

  Over the weekend, the New York Times ran a piece about local disenchantment with our current crop of sad-sack incumbents, headlined "Democrats See Hopes for West Dim in Colorado." GOP Senate candidate... More >>

• Ken Salazar's role in BP disaster: More spin than reformr

  published May 07, 2010

  The finger-pointing over the massive oil slick threatening the Gulf Coast is spreading almost as fast as the spill itself. While critics on the right chortle over Department of the Interior chief of ... More >>

• Penguin's revenge: UCD students' animated short drawing studio buzz

  published May 06, 2010

  Most student film projects never get a screening outside the classroom. But the University of Colorado at Denver's Digital Animation Center takes a different approach. Instead of sending budding Scors... More >>

• Eric Winfield: Artist beaten by Denver cops gets cash, no apology

  published May 04, 2010

  On Monday night, the Denver City Council approved a $40,000 settlement for Eric Winfield, the Denver artist severely beaten by three police officers as he was making his way through the LoDo crowds af... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Sci-fi phenom Paolo Bacigalupi has seen the future -- and it's scary as hell

  published May 6, 2010

  Paolo Bacigalupi is staring at his lunch. Tortilla chips, salsa, a peanut butter and jelly sandwich — thrown together in... More >>

• Fact or science fiction? Colorado's importance in the sci-fi world is no fantasy

  published May 6, 2010

  Fact or Science Fiction? More >>

• Troy Anderson: Mentally ill inmate sues state over decade in the hole

  published May 04, 2010

  Troy Anderson knows he's never going to get out of prison alive. He's spent 23 of his forty years on the inside, and though he's never killed anyone, he's currently serving a 75-year sentence on multi... More >>

• Ken Salazar: Oil spill gets sludge on his shiny green suit

  published Apr 30, 2010

  It's too soon to start putting a figure on the damage -- to marine life, tourism, fishing industries and more -- from the 600-square-mile oil slick oozing onto the Gulf Coast today. And it's too early... More >>

• Denver boot: Scofflaw secrets about how to beat it

  published Apr 29, 2010

  A recent police blotter item from YourHub notes that a vehicle booted for outstanding parking tickets in northwest Denver was "mysteriously gone" when an enforcement officer returned to the area. Ca... More >>

• Josh "Penal" Penry: Felons vote the Democratic ticket

  published Apr 27, 2010

  Yes, it's the season for blustery rhetoric and high-pressure posturing down at the statehouse. But few stunts can match, for sheer unintended hilarity, this recent blast from Colorado Senate Republic... More >>

• Wild horse debacle: BLM under fire over roundup deaths, castrations

  published Apr 26, 2010

  Months after the Bureau of Land Management's controversial roundup of wild horses in Nevada last winter, official counts of the number of animals injured and killed in the operation continue to rise. ... More >>

• Earth Day celebrations: A good time to get rid of crap

  published Apr 22, 2010

  Amid all the peculiar anniversaries this week, ranging from the Oklahoma City bombing and Columbine to the annual obliteration of the 4/20 rituals, it's easy to forget that this is also the 40th anniv... More >>

• DIA officials lust for Dreamliner deal

  published Apr 21, 2010

  It's not likely that officials at All Nippon Airways would forget that the folks at Denver International Airport dearly want to make a deal for a nonstop flight to Tokyo; DIA's been chasing that brass... More >>

• South Park's Trey Parker and Matt Stone: What's their plan for bringing Mormons to Broadwayr

  published Apr 20, 2010

  Now that South Park bad boys Trey Parker and Matt Stone have announced plans for a Broadway production titled The Book of Mormon, congregants of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are bra... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Darrell Havens: State yanks parole for paralyzed thief after cops complain

  published Apr 19, 2010

  A 22-year-old convicted car thief, left a quadraplegic by police gunfire and now costing the state prison system $200,000 a year for his care, was recently granted an unusual "special medical needs" p... More >>

• DPD racial profiling charges: The continuing costly saga of Sgt. Speelman

  published Apr 15, 2010

  There are mellow cops and in-your-face cops.Then there are cops like the Denver Police Department's Perry Speelman, the subject of at least 18 internal affairs investigations dating back to the 1990s,... More >>

• Michael McCormick: The bloody secrets that died with him

  published Apr 12, 2010

  Mike McCormick could have saved at least one life and a lot of trouble if he'd simply pulled the trigger 25 years ago, back when the police had him cornered in Omaha and he had a pistol in his mouth a... More >>

• Thomas Silverstein: After 26 years in solitary, "Terrible Tommy" wins a round in court

  published Mar 24, 2010

  When you've spent your time since the early days of the Reagan years in a cell smaller than some people's closets, progress tends to get measured in small, small increments rather than sweeping events... More >>

• DIA hotel project delayed -- again

  published Mar 19, 2010

  Press reports about Denver International Airport in the late 1990s included lots of optimistic forecasting about the arrival of a luxury hotel at the airport's doorstep by, oh, no later than 2002 or ... More >>

• Assurant's version of health-care reform: Dump HIV patients

  published Mar 18, 2010

  Assurant Health, the country's oldest provider of individual health insurance policies, has had a few public relations problems lately. In addition to the debate over such companies making hundreds o... More >>

• Dirty prison tricks: Kansas adopts Colorado's asbestos removal program for inmates

  published Mar 17, 2010

  A recent story in the Topeka Capital-Journal about a 2005 renovation at a Kansas women's prison has a familiar ring to it. Inmates and corrections employees have long claimed that they were forced to... More >>

• Supermax showdown: Don't confuse us with facts

  published Mar 11, 2010

  At first glance, the idea of tapping into the badly stretched state budget for a few million to open one wing of a new supermax prison doesn't seem all that loony. After all, the Colorado Department ... More >>