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Award winner: Missing gas-escrow payments uncovered with data matches

Bristol (Va.) Herald Courier

For 20 years, an obscure Virginia regulatory board has forced thousands of landowners to lease their mineral rights to private energy corporations.

Daniel Gilbert is a reporter for the Bristol (Va.) Herald Courier.

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Measuring crime in schools

Tulsa World

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I drive by an elementary school on my way to work every day. More than once there’s been a police cruiser idling in the school’s parking lot with lights flashing and the officer standing nearby.

Although those incidents never involved a major crime, on several occasions this year the Tulsa World has chronicled arrests at schools.

Gavin Off is the data editor at the Tulsa World in Oklahoma and a former analyst for the IRE and NICAR Database Library.

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Flood aid under scrutiny

The (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) Gazette

Readme: Free text articleI was warned prior to IRE and NICAR’s CAR Boot Camp that many attendees leave feeling overwhelmed.

And at the end of the five-day class in Minneapolis in early October, I felt … overwhelmed.

Gregg Hennigan covers local government out of the Iowa City office of The Gazette.

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