Place Name: First Place Contestant Name: Superior Telegram Entry Title: How COVID-19 affected Northland tattoo industry Entry Credit: Melinda Lavine Judge Comment: An interesting story on a topic many probably don't think about on a day-to-day business, and a topic that rarely gets covered. Tying tattooing issues into covid was a good idea that clearly falls into the entrerprise realm.
Place Name: Second Place Contestant Name: Grant County Herald Independent Entry Title: Lancaster the clock has started; Focus on Childcare; Little Saints going strong; School-run Daycare sees success; Costs make Daycare move uncertain; Now is the time to act Entry Credit: David Timmerman Judge Comment: There is a lot of passion in this 3+2 series (the two are first-person explaination of why the project was undertaken). Only two of the stories really stand out, but the series definitely shows community leadership.
Place Name: Third Place Contestant Name: The Boscobel Dial Entry Title: Cozy Acres Entry Credit: Joe Hart Judge Comment: Very well done story about life at a run-down mobile home park. Some good interviews and some good statistics in this interesting read.
Place Name: Honorable Mention Contestant Name: The Pierce County Journal Entry Title: On a mission to promote broadband expansion; Pandemic puts lack of broadband internet on the front page: How did we get here?; Local women left beloved career due to internet woes; Upcoming elections: Let's ask the candidates about broadband; Puzzling out Entry Credit: Sarah Nigbor Judge Comment: Plenty of enteprise in this five-part series on using public monies to imporve broadvand service. This could have been a simple public affairs story, but the writer went the extra mile. Unfortunately, there are some deserts (dry reading) in the middle of the stories, but it was an important effort.
Competition Comment: Second and fourth place are, arguably, more important stories than first and third in this competition, but first and third are more interesting to read and show more enterprise.
