Email Author Patricia Calhoun

Awards

• 2012 - National Council on Crime and Delinquency/Prevention for a Safer Society Award, published January 27, 2011

  "Pen Pals"

• 2011 - Golden Quill Award/International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors, published September 23, 2010

  "Crying Shame"

• 2011 - Sigma Delta Chi Awards/Society of Professional Journalists, published September 9, 2010

  "Spreading Her Wings"

• 2011 - Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism, published September 9, 2010

  "Spreading Her Wings"

• 2011 - Society of Professional Journalists/Colorado Chapter, published September 9, 2010

  "Spreading Her Wings"

• 2010 - Education Reporting Awards/National Education Writers Association, published May 14, 2009

  "School Daze"

• 2010 - National Society of Newspaper Columnists, published August 13, 2009

  "Boxed In"

• 2010 - National Society of Newspaper Columnists, published May 14, 2009

  "School Daze"

• 2010 - National Society of Newspaper Columnists, published March 5, 2009

  "Double Trouble"

• 2009 - Clarion Awards/Association of Women in Communications, published December 11, 2008

  "Join the Club"

• 2009 - Clarion Awards/Association of Women in Communications, published August 21, 2008

  "True West"

• 2009 - Clarion Awards/Association of Women in Communications, published January 3, 2008

  "Reminders"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published May 31, 2007

  "The Nigerian Scam Strikes Again"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published May 3, 2007

  "Exhibitionists"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published February 15, 2007

  "Ladies Plight"

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published May 12, 2005

  "A Piece of the Action"

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published August 18, 2005

  "Screwed for Life"

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published November 10, 2005

  "A Peace of the Action"

• 2006 - Clarion Awards/Association of Women in Communications

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2000 Stories by Patricia Calhoun

• Read and Buried

  published December 28, 2000

  You have three more days to become a part of history. Because after December 31, Denver's electronic time capsule project will be... More >>

• Zippity Doodads

  published December 21, 2000

  Nothing says lovin' like a really big pair of men's briefs painted in a festive theme. Although you've missed the opening-night reception, there... More >>

• 2001: A Spaced Odyssey

  published December 21, 2000

  Jefferson Smith came out to Colorado when this state was booming -- the first time. He tried Creede and Leadville but discovered he could make a... More >>

• Snap Judgments

  published November 9, 2000

  This is the never-ending election. Because even after all the counts and recounts are completed, Florida finally sinks into the sea, and the... More >>

• The Name of the Game

  published November 2, 2000

  As this column went to press, the Metropolitan Football Stadium District announced that it was suspending... More >>

• Skating on Thin Ice

  published October 26, 2000

  Six dead women -- the body count so far this month for Colorado's victims of domestic... More >>

• Sounds Like Fun!

  published October 19, 2000

  Pigs must be flying. For a decade, the Wynkoop Brewing Company celebrated its anniversary with an official Running of the Pigs, a Hemingway... More >>

• Sea of Grass

  published September 28, 2000

  There are those who bemoan Colorado's landlocked condition and regard the Rockies as some kind of consolation prize for our lack of a Hamptons or... More >>

• Duty Calls

  published September 28, 2000

  In May 1998, Chris Clendening, who by then had more than twenty years with the Denver Sheriff's Department under his belt, was assigned to... More >>

• The Doctor Is Out

  published September 21, 2000

  The shelves of the Denver Public Library hold many items that some might find objectionable. The books of the learned Laura Schlessinger, for... More >>

• Blowing Smoke

  published September 14, 2000

  The valet parking area at the Westin was full, but they took so long to tell me that I felt aggrieved. So I squealed down to the basement of the... More >>

• This War's Over

  published September 7, 2000

  "The gauntlet had been thrown. And now the town was to see an interminable newspaper war, with attacks, journalistic screams, fisticuffs and... More >>

• Life's Bitter Here

  published August 24, 2000

  The right click opens up your Windows options, Paul Verizzo tells his computer class. "It opens up your life." But that window's about to slam... More >>

• Barking Up the Wrong Tree

  published June 8, 2000

  Two weeks until summer begins, and already the dog days are upon us. They're snapping at our most exquisitely sensitive spots. As might... More >>

• Fire Away

  published May 11, 2000

  Last Friday, John Bray landed on the ground outside our office, a bullet in his chest. On Saturday, his killing landed on the front pages of... More >>

• The Bum's Rush

  published April 27, 2000

  Pity the poor Denver City Council members who get caught napping after Monday night's meeting. On Tuesday, May 2, "the City will begin... More >>

• Don't Be Dense

  published April 20, 2000

  All of Denver's neighborhoods have character. Few have clout. Not the clout of Hilltop, certainly, which ten days ago wrested from Denver... More >>

• Man With a Plan

  published April 6, 2000

  With a Republican in the governor's office -- a Republican who, during his 1998 campaign, told the Christian Coalition he supported banning tax... More >>

• The Forgotten Man

  published March 23, 2000

  On Tuesday, his last free day in this country, Loi Nguyen frantically tries to salvage what he can of the rest of his life. At the end of this... More >>

• Out at Home

  published March 9, 2000

  And you thought Pedro Astacio had problems with the INS. Even as the justice system debates whether the confessed wife-beater -- confessed,... More >>

• Hold, Please

  published March 2, 2000

  Connections count. In early January, US West filled a time capsule with tidbits about how the telephone had changed our lives. "In 1900," the... More >>

• A Fine Bill

  published February 24, 2000

  Last Thursday, Jesse Ventura, former professional wrestler and current governor of Minnesota, stepped off a light-rail train and marched into the... More >>

• A Perfect Ten

  published February 24, 2000

  This week the Colorado Legislature passes the point of no return, when bills must either move on to the other house for ten more weeks of... More >>

• Life's Little Lessons

  published January 27, 2000

  Tom Tancredo is back from Washington, back home in Colorado after his first year as a freshman representative, wondering if the snow now... More >>

• Things to Do in Denver When It's Dead

  published January 6, 2000

  There may not have been fireworks on New Year's Eve, but all hell's been busting loose since we woke up Saturday morning and found ourselves... More >>