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Fixers, feeders, and the strange, hidden world of feral cats
By Alan Prendergast
Published: November 19, 2009
Kristin Des Marais crouches in the damp and shines a flashlight into the vast crawl space beneath the apartment building. The light sweeps across rocks and mounds of dirt, the...
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Feline Fetish: How cat lovers turn into cat hoarders
By Alan Prendergast
Published: November 19, 2009
To the uninitiated, managing a feral colony may sound like something that slightly demented cat fanciers do in the privacy of their own homes — until animal-control...
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Clemency for these six prisoners could save millions and serve justice -- so why won't Governor Ritter try it?
By Alan Prendergast
Published: October 22, 2009
Among Governor Bill Ritter's hits and misses, few actions have drawn as much criticism as his proposal to release thousands of inmates months earlier than originally planned,...
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Before Ritter, Colorado's governors proved that clemency's risks came with rewards
By Alan Prendergast
Published: October 22, 2009
The lack of clemency actions by the Ritter administration contrasts sharply with Dick Lamm's slew of pardons and commutations in the 1970s and '80s. Perhaps Lamm's most...
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City Limits
Ken Salazar takes a step forward by booting Interior's royalties program
By Alan Prendergast
Published: October 1, 2009
One of Ken Salazar's first moves as Secretary of the Interior was to visit the Lakewood office of the Minerals Management Service — an obscure, scandal-plagued agency...
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Hep C victims speak out about getting stuck by Kristen Parker and Rose Medical Center
By Alan Prendergast
Published: September 17, 2009
"WHERE WERE YOU IN APRIL?" Lauren Lollini was the first. Not the first to be exposed, certainly, and probably not the first to get sick. But she was the first patient to...
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In Colorado, it's not about why the wildlife cross the road, but whether they'll survive the trip
By Alan Prendergast
Published: July 30, 2009
No one knows exactly when the first elk wandered into the median around milepost 142, but after a few days they were hard to ignore. By that point, there were 25 or 30 of them...
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Colorado's most hazardous roads - for wildlife
By Alan Prendergast
Published: July 30, 2009
Colorado reported 35,302 collisions between animals and vehicles from 1986 through 2004. The actual number may be much higher, since the available records are sketchy —...
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The way the Adams County Coroner is running his office could be dead wrong
By Alan Prendergast
Published: July 2, 2009
On a quiet Sunday morning last February, Jaime Brown arrived at that dark and unthinkable place every young mother dreads. She walked into the room of her three-year-old...
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Where would you take a $100,000 check that is also a suicide note - to the cops or to the bank?
By Alan Prendergast
Published: May 14, 2009
John Francis Beech had a date with destiny last summer. He counted down the days on a calendar in his garage, crossing out each day leading to the final Sunday in July, on...
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Ken Salazar wants windmills in the ocean, but first he'll have to save the Interior Department
By Alan Prendergast
Published: April 2, 2009
On January 21, Ken Salazar walked into the Department of the Interior headquarters in Washington, D.C., and found a crush of employees waiting for him. It was his first day on...
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Denver's latest traffic plan depends on getting you out of your car
By Alan Prendergast
Published: February 19, 2009
Read a list of Denver's eight worst intersections on the Latest Word blog. Just south of downtown, a fender bender on Speer Boulevard jams up a long line of cars, which spills...
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In life and death, tattoo artist Kauri Tiyme made her mark
By Alan Prendergast
Published: January 8, 2009
For more photos of Kauri Tiyme, go to westword.com/slideshow. The maid found her. It was close to checkout time on Saturday, October 18, and a member of the housekeeping staff...
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CU in Court
Back on the case of the CU sex-recruiting scandal
By Alan Prendergast
Published: December 18, 2008
Eight years after she first reported a sexual assault to police and four years after prosecutors told her they were dropping the case, a young woman has won an unusual court...
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Can a troubled Colorado prison change the way inmates think?
By Alan Prendergast
Published: November 6, 2008
Jay Lewis assumes the position. He slouches, arms folded across his chest, knee bent and foot braced on the wall behind him. He looks like your typical green-tunic-clad felon,...
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Inside one of the nation's top carnivore sanctuaries
By Alan Prendergast
Published: October 23, 2008
Pat Craig walks along a fenceline of his 240-acre spread outside Keenesburg, visiting with some of his latest arrivals. He calls to them in a falsetto, much higher than his...
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City Limits
Crossing Over
How government watchdogs became the energy industry's party animals
By Alan Prendergast
Published: September 18, 2008
There's more than one way to explain the latest scandal erupting within the Bush administration. The release last week of three reports from the inspector general's office of...
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William Orr's quest for better, cheaper gas left him facing prison time
By Alan Prendergast
Published: September 4, 2008
Few dreamers believe in their dream the way William Orr did. He chased his idea, a search for the perfect fuel to put in a gas tank, for three decades. He conducted test after...
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Pain Management
Cancer patient Tim Thomason didn't think he could feel any worse. His Denver jailers showed that he could.
By Alan Prendergast
Published: July 31, 2008
To read Alan Prendergast's blog about the Denver jail's heavily redacted policy on pain meds and release procedures, click here. They let Timothy Thomason go shortly before 8...
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The Lords of Payback
Jefferson County officials show Mike Zinna that what goes around comes around.
By Alan Prendergast
Published: June 26, 2008
In the endless muddle of battle between Mike Zinna and The Powers That Be in Jefferson County, moments of truth have been hard to find. But once in a while there's a burst of...
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