AltWeekly Awards
2011 Column-Political Above 50,000
1st Place: Terrorist with Friends, School of Hard Knocks and Forgotten War Hero, Part 1 by Chuck Strouse , Miami New Times2011 Column-Political Below 50,000
1st Place: Transparently Awful, Missed Goals and No-Shows by David Martin , The Pitch2010 Column-Political Above 50,000
1st Place (tie): October Surprise, Stimulus, Chicago-Style and Ready, Set, (Property Tax) Hike by Ben Joravsky , Chicago Reader
1st Place (tie): The Mayor's Press Pass, Senate Coup Plotters Hidden Agenda and Gillibrand Learned How to Defend Tobacco
by Tom Robbins
,
The Village Voice
3rd Place: Bumping Frights, Domestic Spouses and On Thin Ice
by Matt Smith
,
SF Weekly
2010 Column-Political Below 50,000
1st Place: Chaos at the Capitol (PDF), Solo Ingles Derrotado (PDF) and Bone of Convention (PDF) by Jeff Woods , Nashville Scene
2nd Place: You Should Support Health-Care Reform, Price Tags and Arizonans Are Getting What We're Paying For
by Renee Downing
,
Tucson Weekly
3rd Place: Intern Nation, Discouraged Workers and Chronic Insanity
by Judith Levine
,
Seven Days
2009 Column-Political Above 50,000
1st Place: Bloomberg's Velvet Coup, Bloomberg's Term-Limits Coup and Eliot Spitzer Goes Down by Tom Robbins , The Village Voice
2nd Place: "The Works" Jul. 3, Sep. 18 and Oct. 16
by Ben Joravsky
,
Chicago Reader
3rd Place: Just Go, Guilty as Charged and Obama's Moment
by Curt Guyette and W. Kim Heron
,
Metro Times
2009 Column-Political Below 50,000
1st Place: Gettin' Gay with Leapin' Larry, Alabama Exceptionalism and Leapin' Larry Fights the Feds by Kyle Whitmire , Birmingham Weekly
2nd Place: Don't Mess with Uncle Sam, Pot and Porn and Semantics, Romantics
by SLO New Times Staff
,
San Luis Obispo New Times
3rd Place: Interdependents, Rotten Crumbs and Obama for President
by Ted S. McGregor Jr.
,
Pacific Northwest Inlander
2008 Column-Political Above 55,000
1st Place: No Home For You Here, Copycat Nation and Show Me the Ideas by Andrew Gumbel , Los Angeles CityBeat
2nd Place:
by John F. Sugg
,
Creative Loafing (Atlanta)
3rd Place: This Election is Murder, Cop Out and Finally We Care
by Kia Gregory
,
Philadelphia Weekly
Honorable Mention: Mike Bloomberg, Free at Last, Benchwarmers and Rudy's Brain
by Tom Robbins
,
The Village Voice
2008 Column-Political Below 55,000
1st Place: Leapin' Larry Goes Back to the Future, Letter of Our Laws and The Sticky, Sticky Truth by Kyle Whitmire , Birmingham Weekly
2nd Place: A Burning Issue, Frailty in God's President and Mike's Humble Roots
by Ernest Dumas
,
Arkansas Times
