AltWeekly Awards
Honorable Mention: "Mr. Fish"
by Dwayne Booth
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L.A. Weekly
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"
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Orlando Weekly
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
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Chicago Reader
3rd Place: Just Go, Guilty as Charged and Obama's Moment
by Curt Guyette and W. Kim Heron
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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
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San Luis Obispo New Times
3rd Place: Interdependents, Rotten Crumbs and Obama for President
by Ted S. McGregor Jr.
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The Inlander
2009 Cover Design Above 50,000
1st Place: Share the F*&%ing Road, I'm HIV Positive, and Drop-Dead Sexy by Pam Shavalier , Miami New Times
2nd Place: The Queer and the Qur'an, Nope, and Yeah!
by Willamete Week Design & Production Staff
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Willamette Week
3rd Place: Cougar Heaven, The Veep Fair, and Lip Service
by Tom Carlson
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Riverfront Times