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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  Mike Zinna: Jeffco on hook for legal fees in costly court battle

  published Jun 08, 2012

  When developer-turned-muckraker Mike Zinna won a modest $1,791 judgement against a former Jefferson County commissioner in 2009, after years of convoluted intrigues and litigation, his supporters hail... More >>

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  Jared Polis, zombie killer, dispatches undead oil shale subsidies

  published Jun 07, 2012

  Compared to the billions-a-day standard flow rate of tax dollars pouring into and out of Washington, $25 million amounts to scarcely more than chump change. But the passage of an amendment by Congress... More >>

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  George Brauchler vs. Leslie Hansen: Attacks intensify in DA race

  published Jun 06, 2012

  One of the few hotly contested primary races in Colorado elections this year is the brawl between Leslie Hansen and George Brauchler over who will be the Republican candidate for district attorney in ... More >>

• Coal's future so bleak even energy execs starting to admit it

  published Jun 05, 2012

  About 40 percent of the nation's electrical grid depends on coal for fuel. But facing increasing state and federal regulations that are shutting down many coal plants, a battery of pesky scientists mo... More >>

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  Gary Reilly: Prolific novelist's debut published year after his death

  published Jun 04, 2012

  Once upon a time there was a Denver cabbie who wrote novels about a Denver cabbie who writes novels. Brendan Murphy, better known as Murph, tosses his manuscripts into a steamer trunk, with no expecta... More >>

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  Sharletta Evans meets with son's killer for "healing encounter"

  published Jun 01, 2012

  The meeting began with a prayer. Eight hours later, it ended with Sharletta Evans feeling that she'd found much of what she'd been seeking from a face-to-face encounter with Raymond Johnson, one of th... More >>

• Review: Paolo Bacigalupi's new novel offers a nightmare future, with echoes of now

  published May 31, 2012

  Dark fantasy epics, as every hunger-gamer knows, are all the rage at the box office and on cable. The latest New Yorker to clog my mailbox is the special "Science Fiction Issue." And I'm happy to repo... More >>

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  Dwight "Visa" Davis: Police arrest suspect in rock-hurling robberies

  published May 30, 2012

  Colorado Springs police have arrested the man they believe is responsible for a string of increasingly violent robberies in recent weeks, during which the robber brandished a rock or brick, menaced ot... More >>

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  Groupon project enlists hikers to hunt for elusive pika

  published May 29, 2012

  Known as a high-strung, high-country lagomorph that's particularly susceptible to dramatic temperature shifts, the American pika has been described as a kind of "canary in the coal mine" for gauging t... More >>

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  "Big Bitch" policy divides DA candidates George Brauchler, Leslie Hansen

  published May 24, 2012

  This week's feature, "Sucker Punch," traces how an assault at a heavy metal concert turned into a habitual criminal prosecution in Arapahoe County, with one of the defendants facing a mountain of time... More >>

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  Video: Mayhem Festival clips capture events before assault

  published May 23, 2012

  This week's cover story, "Sucker Punch", explores the legal aftermath of an assault on a fan at the 2010 Mayhem Festival -- an incident that left a somewhat fragmentary record behind, thanks to concer... More >>

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  Sucker Punch: The "Big Bitch" could bite fighting concert-goer

  published May 24, 2012

  It was close to seven on a warm July evening in Greenwood Village, time for the suburb's more sedentary citizens to fire up their grills and... More >>

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  Ken Salazar wants more drilling, but industry won't obliger

  published May 17, 2012

  See, it's like this. Far from being the obstructionist tree-hugger his critics accuse him of being, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar really, really wants to drill, baby, drill, for oil and gas on... More >>

• Tonight: Colorado champ Sam Opoku to vie in Poetry Out Loud national finals

  published May 15, 2012

  Thornton High School senior Samuel Opoku, a two-time Colorado Poetry Out Loud champion, has made it to the final round in Washington, D.C. -- again -- and will be aiming for bardic glory as the nation... More >>

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  Why Donny Andrews is in prison and Pat Sullivan isn't

  published May 14, 2012

  The sweet plea deal struck by former Arapahoe County sheriff Pat Sullivan for meth possession and soliciting prostitution, which netted him a sentence of thirty days in jail and probation, has been wi... More >>

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  Wild horses: Feds ignoring evidence castrated stallions don't act "wild"

  published May 11, 2012

  The U.S. Bureau of Land Management can no longer "remain studiously ignorant of material scientific evidence" indicating that castrating wild stallions is a problematic and possibly illegal way of man... More >>

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  Video: Phil Anschutz has the tailgate party, just needs NFL team

  published May 10, 2012

  Phil Anschutz didn't get to the top of the moguldom heap by thinking small. The billionaire Quest founder has built his sprawling empire on audacity as well as savvy, and his latest venture -- which i... More >>

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  Civil unions stalemate: Fallout affects small businesses, poor, others

  published May 09, 2012

  The Republican House leadership's successful effort to block passage of a civil unions bill yesterday, orchestrated by Speaker Frank McNulty, could well have aftershocks stretching to the fall electio... More >>

• Emerson apartment complex inches toward approval despite complaints

  published May 08, 2012

  A lengthy administrative battle over a 42-unit apartment complex, to be built on the corner of a historic block of grand single-family homes on the south end of Capitol Hill, appears to be just about ... More >>

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  Troy Anderson lawsuit: Supermax conditions draw criticism from judge

  published May 07, 2012

  After nearly five days of testimony in a lawsuit brought by Troy Anderson, a prisoner who's been in solitary confinement for twelve years, a Denver federal judge was strongly urging Colorado Departmen... More >>

• Fracking the North Fork Valley: Opponents exult as BLM defers drilling

  published May 03, 2012

  Yesterday the U.S. Bureau of Land Management announced that it would remove 22 proposed oil and gas parcels in the scenic North Fork Valley from a summer lease sale, opting instead to "conduct additio... More >>

• Krystal Voss's advice for female prisoners: Obsessively hoard water

  published May 02, 2012

  Here at the Criminal Affairs Desk, we've tried to aid the rehabilitation process by offering newly convicted felons some insiders' advice for that difficult transition to life behind bars. We've provi... More >>

• Drug sentencing reform bill sent to commission (and oblivion) for further study

  published Apr 30, 2012

  Statehouse veterans know that the easiest way to squash a bill they don't like isn't to kill it outright but to send it out for serious "study" -- to some lonely subcommittee or outside agency, where ... More >>

• Man gets rocks off in pathetic 7-Eleven robbery

  published Apr 26, 2012

  Even under the best of circumstances, the act of robbing a convenience store for the sake of a handful of singles in ready cash has to be one of the dumbest crimes imaginable, just on a simple risk-to... More >>

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  Jennifer Reali sings! "Fatal Attraction" killer now on fire for Jesus

  published Apr 25, 2012

  At her parole hearing last summer, Jennifer Reali insisted that she's a different person from the 29-year-old, ninja-clad assassin who ambushed and killed her lover's wife, Dianne Hood, outside Hood's... More >>