AltWeekly Awards
2011 Column Above 50,000
1st Place: Mr. Wrong by Joe MacLeod , Baltimore City Paper2011 Column Below 50,000
1st Place: Bar Belle by Sara Havens , LEO Weekly
2nd Place: Midpoint
by Stephanie Piper
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Metro Pulse
Honorable Mention: Ain't That Something; For the Kids; and All God's Children
by Donna Ladd
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Jackson Free Press
2010 Column Above 50,000
1st Place: The MCSO and the Rape Victim, City Raids Pastor's Home, and I Won't Be Home for Christmas by Sarah Fenske , Phoenix New Times
2nd Place: The Fall Guy, Whitewashing Reality, and Irony City
by Jim Schutze
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Dallas Observer
3rd Place: Tea Party Politics, Don't Try the Pinapple Truffles, Jay Bennett Breaks a Heart
by Katy St. Clair
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SF Weekly
Honorable Mention: 'Poet's Notebook': Pacifist Poets, The Voice of the Average Guy, The Spider Web Theory
by Peter Meinke
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Creative Loafing (Tampa)
2010 Column Below 50,000
1st Place: Meth Penalty, Apology Excepted, and Exit Strategy by Anne Schindler , Folio Weekly
2nd Place: Commentary
by David Winkler-Schmit
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Gambit
3rd Place: Secret History
by Jack Neely
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Metro Pulse
Honorable Mention: Unfriendly but Hot, Labor Daze, and Better Vice
by Zane Fischer
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Santa Fe Reporter
2009 Column Above 50,000
1st Place: Globe High School Censors its Student Newspaper, Peter Singer to Talk at ASU and Sarah Fenske's in Dogged Pursuit by Sarah Fenske , Phoenix New Times
2nd Place: No Nature for Old Men, What's in a Nombre and Eat My Dirt
by Jim Schutze
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Dallas Observer
3rd Place: Sarah Palin: Diagrammed, Web of Confusion and Ebonics
by Jeff Barg
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Philadelphia Weekly
Honorable Mention: "¡Ask A Mexican!", Why won't Mexicans vote for a black man?, Is It Racist to Call a Mexican Working at a Coffee Shop a 'Beaner'? and Cherry-Picking César Chávez
by Gustavo Arellano
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OC Weekly
2009 Column Below 50,000
1st Place: Sugar Land, Dumb & Dumber and History Lesson by Anne Schindler , Folio Weekly
2nd Place: “Ranger Rich”
by Rich Tosches
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Colorado Springs Independent
3rd Place: "In the Shadows"
by Matt Davis
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The Portland Mercury
Honorable Mention: "Police Beat"
by Jeffrey C. Billman
,
Orlando Weekly
