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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2011 Stories by Alan Prendergast

• Aspen's "slums": New book stirs outrage among town's glitterati

  published Dec 29, 2011

  It's holiday week in Aspen, and this New Year's weekend is shaping up as the busiest party binge at the resort in years -- a time for Hollywood celebs and other one-percenters to pack the slopes and t... More >>

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  Robert Hood: A former supermax warden's resolutions for 2012

  published Dec 28, 2011

  A former warden at the highest-security prison in the country -- the federal supermax prison outside Florence -- has some intriguing advice for fixing the nation's troubled, budget-draining correction... More >>

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  Tim Wirth scolds Obama for lack of action on climate change

  published Dec 27, 2011

  Environmental leaders who ardently supported Barack Obama in 2008 haven't had much to celebrate in the past three years, as key pieces of legislation dealing with climate change and controls on the en... More >>

• Douglas Bruce: The long, hard fall of a rogue tax crusader

  published Dec 22, 2011

  The conviction of controversy magnet Douglas Bruce on tax evasion charges has touched off some high-pitched gloating on liberal-leaning political websites, as well as the expected musings on the irony... More >>

• Crowley prison riot: New details of unheeded warnings emerge in epic lawsuit

  published Dec 21, 2011

  Seven years ago inmates at a private prison in southeastern Colorado went on an all-night rampage, chasing the shorthanded staff from the premises, attacking suspected snitches, setting fires and caus... More >>

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  Encana blasts EPA report linking fracking to Wyoming water pollution

  published Dec 20, 2011

  In a telephone conference with journalists this morning, officials of the Canadian energy giant Encana sharply disputed an EPA draft report that linked the company's gas drilling operations in Wyoming... More >>

• Fracking the North Fork: Paonia residents rally against drilling assault

  published Dec 19, 2011

  Thanks to the increasing push for more oil and gas drilling, communities once considered out of the fray are being drawn into the controversies over hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking" -- even folks i... More >>

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  Video: Online guns undercover investigation catches sellers flouting law

  published Dec 16, 2011

  A New York City undercover investigation of online gun sales in fourteen states has found that a majority of the 125 unlicensed sellers contacted were eager to sell firearms to buyers they knew couldn... More >>

• Theresa Foster murder fact vs. fiction: Read the 1948 autopsy report

  published Dec 15, 2011

  This week's cover story, "The Case of the Kidnapped Coed," revisits the wild press coverage surrounding the 1948 murder of eighteen-year-old college student Theresa Foster -- and explores how the Denv... More >>

• Fracking lovefest blooms from John Hickenlooper's gas play

  published Dec 14, 2011

  Yesterday, amid an unusually genial gathering of environmental and energy leaders, Governor John Hickenlooper unveiled new state rules requiring detailed disclosure of the chemicals used in hydraulic ... More >>

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  Tim Tebow: Top five franchising opportunities

  published Dec 14, 2011

  No question about it, the ascension of Tim Tebow has established a unique style of football in Denver. The Broncos have managed to distill all the heart-pounding excitement and nail-biting competitive... More >>

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  The case of the kidnapped coed

  published December 15, 2011

  Two rabbit hunters found her. She lay face-down, half-buried in the snow beside a frozen stream twelve miles south of Boulder, legs... More >>

• Paolo Bacigalupi's new novel drawing buzz -- six months before release

  published Dec 12, 2011

  You know you've moved beyond cult status as an author when national magazines get all itchy over the upcoming publication of your new novel... a good half a year before it's scheduled to be released. ... More >>

• Fracking: Polluted water in Wyoming could spell trouble in Colorado

  published Dec 09, 2011

  The release of an EPA report detailing suspected groundwater contamination from gas drilling operations in Wyoming comes just as Colorado is weighing tougher restrictions and wider disclosures about t... More >>

• Sister Helen Prejean on why Colorado's death penalty is past its expiration date

  published Nov 30, 2011

  When you've spent close to three decades as one of America's leading opponents of capital punishment, you develop an understanding of what states truly have the will to execute their condemned. And S... More >>

• Capitol dome closes tomorrow until 2014, so catch the view today (PHOTOS)

  published Nov 30, 2011

  If you're not occupying any other public space in central Denver today, it might be time to visit the Colorado Capitol building and climb those 99 steps from the third floor to the dome observation ar... More >>

• Kristen Parker's hep-C rampage: Doctors deny duty to prevent drug thefts (VIDEO)

  published Nov 28, 2011

  Although Kristen Parker, the surgical tech who infected dozens of Rose Medical Center patients with the hepatitis C virus in 2008 and 2009, is now serving a thirty-year prison sentence, the fallout fr... More >>

• The McDonald's map of America -- and Denver's place in it (VIDEO)

  published Nov 25, 2011

  For some of us, the day after Thanksgiving is for quiet family time and home-cooked leftovers. For all too many, though, it's a grisly rush to the Black Friday sales at the mall and a lot of scarfing ... More >>

• Habitual criminal policy: Who's going away for a long, long timer

  published Nov 23, 2011

  This week's cover story, "Welcome to Arapahell," examines Arapahoe County District Attorney Carol Chambers's frequent filing of habitual criminal charges against repeat offenders, which can triple or ... More >>

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  The Big Bitch

  published November 24, 2011

  On the Saturday before Easter 2010, Dennis Pauls got it into his head to give his ex-wife a plant. It was an Easter lily, a Christian symbol of... More >>

• Sam Granillo, Columbine survivor, plans film on long-term trauma of shootings

  published Nov 21, 2011

  There was a time when you could hardly turn on the TV without seeing the footage over and over: terrified teens fleeing the school with hands in the air, running past the bodies of slain classmates; S... More >>

• Ignite the Light: An ecstatic extravaganza for the enlightened and at-risk youth

  published Nov 18, 2011

  So many choices for music, dance or art this weekend. But if you're in the mood for aerial performances, archetypal paintings, ecstatic dancers, light shows, electronica, fire spinning, spoken word, c... More >>

• Solitary confinement: Isolating prisoners overused in Colorado, study suggests

  published Nov 17, 2011

  A study by researchers at the National Institute of Corrections has found that Colorado's approach to locking down its most unruly prisoners in 23-hour-a-day isolation is "basically sound" -- but coul... More >>

• Capitol Hill assaults up 30% as victim wonders where cops went (Hint: Occupy Denver)

  published Nov 16, 2011

  The number of late-night attacks and robberies on the streets of Capitol Hill is up significantly over last year's pace, raising questions about the safety level in the city's core and whether police ... More >>

• Ray Enright, R.I.P.: Remembering the top drug cop who took down Vito Genovese

  published Nov 15, 2011

  John Ray Enright died this past weekend at the age of 85, leading to some polite tributes here and there, with most focusing on his years as director of the Colorado Bureau of Investigation in the 197... More >>