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AltWeekly Awards

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 , Dallas Observer
3rd Place: Sarah Palin: Diagrammed, Web of Confusion and Ebonics by Jeff Barg , 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 , 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 , Colorado Springs Independent
3rd Place: "In the Shadows" by Matt Davis , The Portland Mercury
Honorable Mention: "Police Beat" , 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 , 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. , The Inlander

2009 Election Coverage Above 50,000

1st Place: Moles Wanted, Police Raid Anarchist Homes and Dozens of Journalists Arrested at RNC by Matt Snyders , City Pages (Twin Cities)
2nd Place: ohn McCain's Fame is Based on His POW Status, But He Has Abandoned Fellow Veterans by Amy Silverman , Phoenix New Times
3rd Place: The Book of Sarah (Palin) by Wayne Barrett , The Village Voice

2009 Election Coverage Below 50,000

1st Place: John McCain's Gramm Gamble by Patricia Kilday Hart , The Texas Observer
2nd Place (tie): Election Action 2008 by Christine Carrie Fien, Jeremy Moule, Tim Macaluso, Mary Anna Towler and Karl Slominski , City Newspaper
2nd Place (tie): Election 2008 by Portland Phoenix Freelancers , Portland Phoenix
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