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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2002 Stories by Patricia Calhoun

• Time's Up

  published December 19, 2002

  Merry Christmas, Mayor Webb. In the mail you'll find a check for $40 to cover the two parking tickets I picked up last week -- my gift from... More >>

• That's the Ticket

  published December 12, 2002

  Last January, Denver considered itself such a "world-class" city that John Oglesby, director of the parking management division, announced an... More >>

• Embracing the Future

  published November 14, 2002

  I am not a hugger. In fact, I am hugging-impaired. I come from a long line of women who, in photographs, stand identically, crossing our arms in a... More >>

• Calamity Jane

  published November 7, 2002

  The last time the big guns of the National Rifle Association came to town, the blood spilled at Columbine was barely dry. Mayor Wellington Webb... More >>

• Mr. Stanley, We Presume

  published October 17, 2002

  You don't need to listen to Congress's only veterinarian to realize that all of the muck being thrown around in Colorado's race for the U.S.... More >>

• No-Tell Hotel

  published October 3, 2002

  First Denver introduced Johns TV, the Channel 8 show featuring the least attractive supporting cast ever seen on television. Now it's gone... More >>

• A Hard Cell

  published September 26, 2002

  On Sunday, Qwest Communications International announced that it will erase close to a billion bucks in alleged revenue from its books in an... More >>

• Last But Not Yeast

  published September 19, 2002

  The Denver Police Department is the gang that couldn't file straight. Its intelligence bureau should be renamed The Stupidity Bureau. Six... More >>

• Why Spy?

  published September 5, 2002

  When I moved to Denver, some of the town's top cops were tooling around in Caddys provided by Elvis Presley, the about-to-burn-out star to whom... More >>

• Smart Bombs

  published August 22, 2002

  On September 3, you can learn whether you're on the city's most exclusive list: a roster of people and organizations in the Denver Police... More >>

• Take a Memo

  published August 15, 2002

  Last month, State Farm sent a memo to its Colorado agents and employees. The subject was Alan Prendergast's June 27 Westword story, " More >>

• Dude!

  published July 25, 2002

  "You're from Denver," the white-hatted cowboy said as he started searching our bags. "You're used to this." Well, not this: "You got a... More >>

• Minor Irritants

  published July 18, 2002

  Around the Fourth of July, Alison "Sunny" Maynard opened a letter from the Independence Institute. "Congratulations on your candidacy!" think tank... More >>

• Conspiracy Nuts

  published July 4, 2002

  The biggest danger we face this July Fourth is not illegal fireworks, not the terrorist threat, but a menace even now confronting us at picnics... More >>

• Steaking a Claim

  published June 27, 2002

  Barry Fey has braved the LoDo crowds still celebrating Colorado's victory over the Yankees -- "I hate Coors Field because of what the scores have... More >>

• Our Fair City

  published June 27, 2002

  "In the name of Allah," begins the handwritten pleading filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on April 26, "I, slave... More >>

• The Bite

  published June 13, 2002

  Telluride may have more publications per capita than any other place on Earth. It may also have more tender egos. And when the magazine... More >>

• The Big Cheese

  published June 6, 2002

  Last year, Rick Ashton, the director of the Denver Public Library, strongly suggested that all 500 DPL employees read Who Moved My Cheese?,... More >>

• Photo Finish

  published May 30, 2002

  As you waited in supermarket checkout lines with your hotdogs and chips this past Memorial Day weekend, you could have picked up the Globe... More >>

• The Bite

  published May 23, 2002

  By the end of an evening of margarita-testing, our teeth tasted like SweeTarts. Gritty, sour and vaguely fruity -- a sad reminder of the apple,... More >>

• Deliverance

  published May 23, 2002

  Plutonium lasts forever...or close enough. Certainly the stories surrounding Rocky Flats, the now-defunct nuclear-weapons plant sixteen miles... More >>

• The Bite

  published May 16, 2002

  Impressive as its thirty-year run may be, the Bull & Bush (see story above) isn't Glendale's oldest saloon. That honor would have to go to... More >>

• Last Writes

  published May 16, 2002

  They speak from the bookshelves. "What's going on?" murmurs Greg Lopez, the Rocky Mountain News columnist killed in a hit-and-run six... More >>

• The Bite

  published May 9, 2002

  All decks on hand: Now that spring is here, patios and decks are springing up at eateries all over town. Pearl Street... More >>

• The Usual Suspects

  published May 2, 2002

  Denver remains the Sally Field of cities. "You like us, you really like us!" we cry out in gratitude whenever anyone pays us the slightest bit of... More >>