How can this story not win? Great interview, great pictures...loved what the couple had to say. Great close. Bell South reference! Sweet, sweet piece.

Apparently produced by the same staff as the first place winner, so much of the same observations apply.

Complicated to follow; but FOILs and interviews with various officials reveals one town is paying 80% of another town's legal fees fighting proposed new limits on forever chemicals. Important reporting

Masterful reporting balancing courtroom procedures, legal ethics, and powerful human interest.