Email Author Alan Prendergast

Awards

• 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"

• 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"

• 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

• Green Valley Ranch library: Denver opens impressive new facility despite staffing crunch

  published Mar 14, 2011

  Amid ribbon-cutting and speeches, balloon hats and live raptors, the Denver Public Library held a grand opening for its newest addition Saturday: the Green Valley Ranch Branch Library. The $11.4 milli... More >>

• Colorado's No. 1 in fraud complaints: Greeley, Boulder, Fort Collins & CO Springs in top 15

  published Mar 11, 2011

  Statistics compiled by the Federal Trade Commission show that Colorado had the highest per-capita rate of consumer fraud complaints in the nation last year. According to the FTC's Consumer Sentinel Ne... More >>

• Colorado's No. 1 in fraud complaints: Greeley, Boulder, Fort Collins & CO Springs in top 15

  published Mar 11, 2011

  Statistics compiled by the Federal Trade Commission show that Colorado had the highest per-capita rate of consumer fraud complaints in the nation last year. According to the FTC's Consumer Sentinel Ne... More >>

• Colorado's No. 1 in fraud complaints: Greeley, Boulder, Fort Collins & CO Springs in top 15

  published Mar 11, 2011

  Statistics compiled by the Federal Trade Commission show that Colorado had the highest per-capita rate of consumer fraud complaints in the nation last year. According to the FTC's Consumer Sentinel Ne... More >>

• Pinon Canyon controversy: Tim Wirth blasts "bankrupt" defense policy

  published Mar 10, 2011

  Former Senator Tim Wirth, a formidable opponent in the 1980s of the U.S. Army's big plans for its training site in southeastern Colorado, views possible expansion of the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site as ... More >>

• Columbine effect 12 years later: Are schools and cops going too far in prosecuting juvenilesr

  published Mar 09, 2011

  In the dozen years since the Columbine shootings, school officials have become hypervigilant about potential troublemakers in their midst -- so hyper, in fact, that state lawmakers are now seeking a f... More >>

• Water wars: How Denver's lush lawns slurp away the Upper Colorado (VIDEO)

  published Mar 08, 2011

  Last week, we reported on the anticipated demand for costly water diversion projects by 2050 -- and the conservation strategy proposed in Filling the Gap, a timely report from environmental groups. Un... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Boys play with lighters and face arson charges, parents feel burned

  published March 10, 2011

  Carol Chambers, the district attorney for Arapahoe, Douglas, Elbert and Lincoln counties, has developed a reputation for being hell on career... More >>

• Lamar coal plant: Trinidad sues to get out of "mismanaged" project

  published Mar 07, 2011

  Trinidad's City Council voted unanimously last week to file a lawsuit against the Arkansas River Power Authority, claiming that the co-op has bungled the construction of a coal-fired power plant in La... More >>

• Chuck Zukowski: Reserve deputy fired over paranormal investigations

  published Mar 04, 2011

  Chuck Zukowski likes to think that his work as an El Paso County reserve deputy sheriff sharpened his skills as an off-duty investigator of cattle mutilations, UFO and Bigfoot sightings and ghostly ap... More >>

• Front Range's growing thirst doesn't have to suck Colorado rivers dry, says enviro report

  published Mar 03, 2011

  Over the next four decades, millions of new residents along the Front Range are expected to boost water demands more than 50 percent above the currently available supply. But that doesn't mean the sta... More >>

• Mentally ill prisoners in solitary confinement: New bill seeks to stop the madness

  published Mar 02, 2011

  Roughly four out of every ten prisoners in solitary confinement in Colorado is either developmentally disabled or mentally ill, a figure that's been rising steadily over the past decade. Senate Bill 1... More >>

• Students burn bright, fly right in Poetry Out Loud contest

  published Mar 01, 2011

  Memorizing and reciting great verse kept the epics of the ancient world alive. It helped former hostage Terry Anderson survive years of dismal captivity -- and countless closet poets from losing their... More >>

• Wild horse roundups: Embattled BLM's Robert Abbey vows to overhaul program

  published Feb 25, 2011

  Days after Congress slashed $2 million from the Bureau of Land Management's budget in response to public outcry over its wild horse roundups, BLM director Robert Abbey announced that the agency was "a... More >>

• Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site on horseback and by tank: 2 views of region under siege (VIDEO)

  published Feb 24, 2011

  Locals fighting the Army's plans for increased training on the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site -- the subject of this week's cover story, "The War Next Door" -- have a basic public relations problem. Unles... More >>

• Leaked documents show Army's bold plan to acquire 10,000 square miles of Colorado

  published Feb 23, 2011

  Artillery ranges and tank maneuvers on fragile grasslands. Depopulated farm towns, suitable for urban warfare exercises for thousands of troops. A military installation the size of Massachusetts, spra... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  The War Next Door

  published February 24, 2011

  Some roads take you forward, others to the past. Driving south of La Junta on state highway 109 is a journey back in time — way, way... More >>

• Denver International Airport parking flap: DIA's demand for a piece of the gross

  published Feb 22, 2011

  Vowing to "run this airport like a business," Denver International Airport manager Kim Day recently announced a ten-year financial strategy to keep operations in the black while funding a billion-doll... More >>

• Ken Salazar's "wild lands" push riles the Club 20 crowd

  published Feb 21, 2011

  It's been less than two months since Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar was in Denver unveiling his "Wild Lands" program, a sharp poke in the eye to Bush-era wilderness policy, and the reception si... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Wild horse roundups: Funding cut renews cries to end "taxpayer-funded animal abuse" (VIDEO)

  published Feb 17, 2011

  It's been a good week for mustang lovers. Not only did the Bureau of Land Management, in the wake of lawsuits, back off a plan to round up the entire West Douglas herd of wild horses in northwest Colo... More >>

• Fort Lyon prison closing proposed by John Hickenlooper: Adios to a poisoned pen

  published Feb 16, 2011

  Among the painful budget cuts proposed by Governor John Hickenlooper on Tuesday, one long-overdue move should earn points from prison reformers as well as bean counters -- shutting down the Fort Lyon ... More >>

• Laradon Hall: Do leaders of troubled charity need an ethics courser

  published Feb 15, 2011

  Laradon Hall, a nonprofit in north Denver that operates an alternative school and other programs for people with developmental disabilities, has done a lot of good works over the past sixty years. But... More >>

• Wild horses: BLM backs off plan to round up West Douglas herd

  published Feb 14, 2011

  There aren't a lot of wild horses left in Colorado, but a small herd of mustangs fifty miles north of Grand Junction just got a reprieve. Besieged by legal challenges of its plan to relocate "excess" ... More >>

• Tom Clements, new Colorado prison chief: Can he bust out of the state's revolving doorr

  published Feb 11, 2011

  This week, the Colorado Senate unanimously confirmed the appointment of Tom Clements as Department of Corrections executive director. It's not one of the most glamorous posts in Governor John Hickenlo... More >>

• Denver International Airport's fixation with Santiago Calatrava rail station: The flighty math

  published Feb 10, 2011

  Yesterday, Kim Day, Denver International Airport's aviation director, did her best to convince city council members that her team is being sensible in its approach to more than a billion dollars in co... More >>