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

• Sumaya Abu-Haidar: Nederland mayor resigns, citing "hostile" politics and "rude" critics

  published Sep 08, 2011

  Nederland's official website declares that the funky mountain burg is a "town like no other." And the abrupt resignation of Mayor Sumaya Abu-Haidar eighteen months into her two-year term, amid what s... More >>

• Sumaya Abu-Haidar: Nederland mayor resigns, citing "hostile" politics and "rude" critics

  published Sep 08, 2011

  Nederland's official website declares that the funky mountain burg is a "town like no other." And the abrupt resignation of Mayor Sumaya Abu-Haidar eighteen months into her two-year term, amid what s... More >>

• Aaron Million's Flaming Gorge pipeline would be flaming expensive, new study claims

  published Sep 07, 2011

  Real-estate investor Aaron Million's audacious proposal to provide water to a thirsty Front Range by building a 550-mile pipeline from southwestern Wyoming, the subject of a 2009 feature by Joel Warne... More >>

• Aaron Million's Flaming Gorge pipeline would be flaming expensive, new study claims

  published Sep 07, 2011

  Real-estate investor Aaron Million's audacious proposal to provide water to a thirsty Front Range by building a 550-mile pipeline from southwestern Wyoming, the subject of a 2009 feature by Joel Warne... More >>

• Aaron Million's Flaming Gorge pipeline would be flaming expensive, new study claims

  published Sep 07, 2011

  Real-estate investor Aaron Million's audacious proposal to provide water to a thirsty Front Range by building a 550-mile pipeline from southwestern Wyoming, the subject of a 2009 feature by Joel Warne... More >>

• Top 5 biggest speed traps in Denver

  published Sep 06, 2011

  The National Motorists Association lists Denver and Colorado Springs among the ten worst cities in the U.S. and Canada for speed traps, based on reported motorist sightings. And Colorado is the fourth... More >>

• Top 5 biggest speed traps in Denver

  published Sep 06, 2011

  The National Motorists Association lists Denver and Colorado Springs among the ten worst cities in the U.S. and Canada for speed traps, based on reported motorist sightings. And Colorado is the fourth... More >>

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  Top 5 biggest speed traps in Denver

  published Sep 06, 2011

  The National Motorists Association lists Denver and Colorado Springs among the ten worst cities in the U.S. and Canada for speed traps, based on reported motorist sightings. And Colorado is the fourth... More >>

• Catherine Keske, CSU prof, released from jail (again) in toxic parenting dispute

  published Sep 06, 2011

  Update: Catherine Keske, the CSU professor sentenced to ninety days in jail for contempt of court over a parenting dispute with her ex-husband involving a secure e-mail account for her son, among othe... More >>

• Catherine Keske, CSU prof, released from jail (again) in toxic parenting dispute

  published Sep 06, 2011

  Update: Catherine Keske, the CSU professor sentenced to ninety days in jail for contempt of court over a parenting dispute with her ex-husband involving a secure e-mail account for her son, among othe... More >>

• Catherine Keske, CSU prof, released from jail (again) in toxic parenting dispute

  published Sep 06, 2011

  Update: Catherine Keske, the CSU professor sentenced to ninety days in jail for contempt of court over a parenting dispute with her ex-husband involving a secure e-mail account for her son, among othe... More >>

• Wild horse roundups: Judge bans helicopters after pilot buzzes exhausted mustang (VIDEO)

  published Sep 01, 2011

  Chasing wild horses with helicopters has long been a controversial but accepted method in the roundups of mustangs by the Bureau of Land Management. But a federal judge has blasted the BLM after seein... More >>

• Wild horse roundups: Judge bans helicopters after pilot buzzes exhausted mustang (VIDEO)

  published Sep 01, 2011

  Chasing wild horses with helicopters has long been a controversial but accepted method in the roundups of mustangs by the Bureau of Land Management. But a federal judge has blasted the BLM after seein... More >>

• Wild horse roundups: Judge bans helicopters after pilot buzzes exhausted mustang (VIDEO)

  published Sep 01, 2011

  Chasing wild horses with helicopters has long been a controversial but accepted method in the roundups of mustangs by the Bureau of Land Management. But a federal judge has blasted the BLM after seein... More >>

• John Hickenlooper presidential buzz: Some slogans for the 2016 campaign

  published Aug 31, 2011

  Politics junkies are already so discouraged by the prospects in the 2012 presidential campaign that they're looking ahead to 2016, proposing all kinds of unlikely candidates -- including Governor John... More >>

• John Hickenlooper presidential buzz: Some slogans for the 2016 campaign

  published Aug 31, 2011

  Politics junkies are already so discouraged by the prospects in the 2012 presidential campaign that they're looking ahead to 2016, proposing all kinds of unlikely candidates -- including Governor John... More >>

• John Hickenlooper presidential buzz: Some slogans for the 2016 campaign

  published Aug 31, 2011

  Politics junkies are already so discouraged by the prospects in the 2012 presidential campaign that they're looking ahead to 2016, proposing all kinds of unlikely candidates -- including Governor John... More >>

• Pinon Canyon: Air Force retreats on noisy flyovers, but where will they gor

  published Aug 30, 2011

  After years of battling the U.S. Army over its efforts to expand the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site, beleagured ranchers in southeastern Colorado got a reprieve this week from another branch of the milita... More >>

• Pinon Canyon: Air Force retreats on noisy flyovers, but where will they gor

  published Aug 30, 2011

  After years of battling the U.S. Army over its efforts to expand the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site, beleagured ranchers in southeastern Colorado got a reprieve this week from another branch of the milita... More >>

• Pinon Canyon: Air Force retreats on noisy flyovers, but where will they gor

  published Aug 30, 2011

  After years of battling the U.S. Army over its efforts to expand the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site, beleagured ranchers in southeastern Colorado got a reprieve this week from another branch of the milita... More >>

• Victor Gabler case: Judge denies effort to force writer's testimony against one-man crime wave

  published Aug 29, 2011

  It took Boulder District Judge Gwyneth Whalen less than a minute this morning to rule that prosecutors shouldn't be allowed to compel a Westword writer to testify in a criminal racketeering case simpl... More >>

• Victor Gabler case: Judge denies effort to force writer's testimony against one-man crime wave

  published Aug 29, 2011

  It took Boulder District Judge Gwyneth Whalen less than a minute this morning to rule that prosecutors shouldn't be allowed to compel a Westword writer to testify in a criminal racketeering case simpl... More >>

• Victor Gabler case: Judge denies effort to force writer's testimony against one-man crime wave

  published Aug 29, 2011

  It took Boulder District Judge Gwyneth Whalen less than a minute this morning to rule that prosecutors shouldn't be allowed to compel a Westword writer to testify in a criminal racketeering case simpl... More >>

• Charles & Marilyn Long murders: Was plea deal for Burlington 13-year old the "best resolution"r

  published Aug 26, 2011

  The plea arrangement announced today in the case of a thirteen-year-old Burlington youth accused of killing his parents, who now faces seven years in the juvenile corrections system rather than a poss... More >>

• Charles & Marilyn Long murders: Was plea deal for Burlington 13-year old the "best resolution"r

  published Aug 26, 2011

  The plea arrangement announced today in the case of a thirteen-year-old Burlington youth accused of killing his parents, who now faces seven years in the juvenile corrections system rather than a poss... More >>