Alan Prendergast is at the center of a recent "How I Got That Story" feature.
The Association of Alternative Newsweeklies is an organization devoted to publications like this one -- and to good writing in general. To that end, AAN has created a regular feature dubbed "How I Got That Story," in which award-winning newsweekly reporters offer peers and readers a peek behind the curtain of notable reports. The latest stars Westword's own Alan Prendergast, who reveals the story behind the story
In an "Extra!" side channel item from today's Rocky Mountain News, Lynn Kimbrough, spokeswoman for Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey (pictured), expresses her displeasure at an online headline affixed to a story announcing that her boss might receive a $32,000 boost in pay. "I don't want to sound like I'm whining, but I really think a headline that reads 'DA poised to get $32,000 raise next year' is not very fair," she's quoted as saying. "Maybe my headline is 'Denver DA poised to catch
Right before he headed into his lovefest/confirmation hearing for the Secretary of the Interior post, still-Senator Ken Salazar and new Senator Mark Udall sent President-elect Barack Obama the names of three candidates for U.S. attorney, since that post generally goes with the winning party, and Republican Troy Eid has tendered his resignation (he's planning to run for Colorado attorney general).
The names: William "Bill" Thiebaut, former legislator and current Pueblo district attorney; John Wa
Chantell Taylor.While crowing earlier today about an Institute exposé focusing on uncompleted conflict-of-interest forms that embarrassed the Bill Ritter administration, the Independence Institute's Jon Caldara scoffed at the notion that Colorado Ethics Watch might take action against the Democratic governor's office. "They file complaints on any Republican at any time," he said. "I'd be curious what percentage of their complaints are filed against Democrats."
To that, CEW director Chan
Cory Voorhis."Tony Rouco is really a small piece of the puzzle," former U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Cory Voorhis says about an ICE supervisor who reportedly gave false testimony under oath. "It's most obvious that the wrongdoing is at some level higher."
In some respects, the Voorhis case seems like ancient history. After all, it revolves around an ad by 2006 Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Beauprez that attacked Democratic nominee Bill Ritter with information V
Mitch Morrissey hopes all you at-large criminals have siblings who've been busted.Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey is psyched. For the past several years, he's been working with colleagues in the Denver Police Department's crime lab, among others, to prove the efficacy of a method able to connect DNA not in law-enforcement databases to samples from family members of the scofflaw that are. And the experiment just paid off with the arrest and conviction of one Luis Jaimes-Tinajero,
Tom Tancredo will have his Kumbaya moment at 10 a.m. today, when he gathers with Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis and other top GOPs -- including former governor Bill Owens and former gubernatorial Josh Penry -- to unveil an agreed-upon set of Republican principles.
And that will mark the end of Tancredo's rumored run for Bill Ritter's seat. But while the controversial former congressman may not be running for governor, Tancredo is definitely on the move -- and now he's g
