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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2012 Stories by Alan Prendergast

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  FEATURED STORY

  Aurora theater shooting: Gun sales surge predictable -- but will it lastr

  published Jul 26, 2012

  Colorado dealers turned in 40 percent more background check requests for gun purchasers in the four days after the Aurora theater shootings than they did the previous weekend, a spike in gun sales sim... More >>

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  Video: Cory Gardner bugged by beetles, fuming over fires

  published Jul 24, 2012

  Cory Gardner is on fire. More than two hundred homes and thousands of acres of forests went up in flames in his district in the past few weeks, and the freshman congressman from Colorado knows exactly... More >>

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  James Holmes rumor mill after Aurora shootings: More viral than Columbine

  published Jul 20, 2012

  In the aftershocks of the shootings at an Aurora theater that left twelve dead and dozens wounded, it's inevitable that the tragedy would evoke comparisons to the 1999 attack on Columbine High School.... More >>

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  Photos: Last Chance, Colorado, barely endures ravages of time and fire

  published Jul 18, 2012

  Back in the 1980s, when I still had in-laws working a family farm out on the eastern plains, I used to head out to visit them on U.S. 36 and pause, like many drivers did, at a wide spot in the road ca... More >>

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  Aspen Mayor Mick Ireland takes ABC challenge, releases tax returns after bashing Romney

  published Jul 16, 2012

  Put up or shut up. After a group of Democratic leaders staged a press conference last week to demand that Mitt Romney release more of his tax returns, ABC News asked the group if they would make publi... More >>

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  Crappy cars lure Colorado Springs crooksr

  published Jul 13, 2012

  Here at the Criminal Affairs Desk, we've remarked before that malfeasance in Colorado Springs often takes strange twists. Not that crime waves are any more severe or more violent in El Paso County tha... More >>

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  Video: Tiny documents big dreams in mini-house movement

  published Jul 12, 2012

  For a lesson in living large, look no further than Peyton Manning's new Cherry Hills Village digs, a modest 16,000-square-feet pied-a-terre, snapped up for a mere $4.57 million. But a new documentary ... More >>

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  Update: Comment period extended for controversial Chatfield Reservoir project

  published Jul 12, 2012

  Update: In response to requests from some groups to extend the public comment period for the proposal to increase water storage at Chatfield Reservoir -- a project that's raised several environmental ... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Pollution: Nitrogen levels on the rise in Rocky Mountain National Park

  published Jul 09, 2012

  Rocky Mountain National Park officials have recognized for years that Front Range pollution -- from auto exhausts, power plants, emissions from oil wells and refineries, feedlots and more -- pose a th... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Armando Montano: Account of "accidental" finding in journalist's death disputed

  published Jul 06, 2012

  Update, 2:15 pm: Since I posted the account below concerning the mysterious death of 22-year-old journalist Armando Montano in Mexico City, his family has received new information from the Associated ... More >>

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  Wild horses: Is drought worse than roundups for Colorado herdr

  published Jul 05, 2012

  Wild horse activists managed to block the complete removal of a small but hardy herd of mustangs in northwest Colorado this week. Bureau of Land Management officials contend that severe drought condit... More >>

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  Aspen real estate dips despite $49 million sale of Hala ranch

  published Jul 03, 2012

  One handy gauge for checking on the relative financial health of the world's one-percenters can be found right here in Colorado -- well, okay, the other Colorado, the one populated with champagne wish... More >>

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  Kim Remmel: Friends seek traces of missing wild horse activist

  published Jul 02, 2012

  After weeks without any news of her whereabouts, friends and family of Kim Remmel, a 47-year-old Arvada woman active in animal welfare causes, are appealing to the public for information that might he... More >>

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  ExxonMobil's Rex Tillerson rejects "fear factor" in climate change research

  published Jun 28, 2012

  Give Rex Tillerson some credit. At least the ExxonMobil CEO has avoided claiming that global warming isn't real, the way tobacco executives used to pretend lung cancer was just some weird, wacky, luck... More >>

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  Photos: Bark beetles gone wild in Colorado's forests

  published Jun 27, 2012

  This week's cover story, "The Beetle and the Damage Done," reports on the mounting toll of the worst bark-beetle epidemic in recorded history in Colorado and the various causes blamed for the infestat... More >>

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  Jacob Ind, 40 others in Colorado could get new sentences due to Supreme Court juvie ruling

  published Jun 26, 2012

  With a nod to emerging brain science that contends adolescents are fundamentally different from adults -- and a stern rebuke to the one-size-fits-all approach to prosecuting underaged defendants in ad... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Why Colorado's forests are bugging out with beetles

  published June 28, 2012

  Archimedes had his bathtub, Newton his apple. Scott Ferrenberg's Eureka moment required more fieldwork to confirm, but it began when a bug the... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Roan Plateau: Bush-era drilling plan foiled again

  published Jun 25, 2012

  Last Friday, U.S. District Judge Marcia Krieger threw yet another hurdle in the way of energy companies' efforts to begin widespread drilling on Colorado's Roan Plateau. The plan to tap into vast natu... More >>

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  Orgasms, tattoos: Women's prison abuzz over electric shavers

  published Jun 22, 2012

  Colorado prisoners complain about all sorts of indignities, from the high price of candy bars to the degrading (now banned) "labia lift" procedure some female inmates were subjected to. But not all th... More >>

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  Jeramie Gerhardt gets jail time, probation in Mayhem concert assault

  published Jun 21, 2012

  Jeramie Gerhardt, one of two men charged in an assault on another concert-goer during the 2010 Mayhem Festival at the Comfort Dental Amphitheatre, was sentenced last week in Arapahoe County District C... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Update: Photos from supermax lawsuit claiming horrific abuse of mentally ill at ADX

  published Jun 19, 2012

  Update: Yesterday, Alan Prendergast reported on a supermax lawsuit alleging shocking mistreatment of mentally ill prisoners. We've added a copy of the suit, plus photos of the facility and the impriso... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Private prison operator Community Education Centers' woes have a familiar ring

  published Jun 18, 2012

  This isn't exactly the best week ever for Community Education Centers, a private company that operates halfway houses, prisons and "re-entry centers" in seventeen states. On Sunday, the New York Times... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Hassan Latif: Ex-con advises others how to stay out of prison

  published Jun 15, 2012

  Contrary to scenes in numerous books and movies, getting locked up doesn't always lead to painful bouts of reflection and self-examination. Criminals are a stubborn bunch, and it's easy behind bars to... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Colorado's warming trend since 1970: A new look at a 40-year heat wave

  published Jun 13, 2012

  You don't have to be steering a helitanker into the High Park fire to know that things are a bit toasty across Colorado these days. Drawing any conclusions about climate change, though, from a bout of... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Echo Mountain: Denver's closest ski resort up for sale

  published Jun 11, 2012

  After one of the mildest winters in recent years, leaving some areas of the parched high country with less than 10 percent of normal snowpack -- not to mention forests ravaged by drought and pine beet... More >>