I’ve got to hand it to the boys* at the local daily — Sarasota Herald Tribune Business Section — they’ve raked in several well-deserved awards for investigative pieces they dug into and reported on over the past year. The reporting the team of reporters did on suspicious property flips and real estate fraud was fantastic. That team won “Best of the Best” business award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers and also picked up a national Scripps Howard award. Another team of reporters at the H-T was recognized for its coverage of the Nadel Ponzi scheme and saga as it unfolded (and continues to unfold). And, yet another reporter snagged a first-place shout-out for his story-telling on the Chinese drywall fiasco. (*pretty sure there are no females on the Biz staff)
A lot of people in this town (including me occasionally) bitch about our local daily — it should be more this, less that, yada, yada. But the Biz reporters really took center stage over the past year and reported in meaningful and very illuminating ways about the unfortunate sh*tstorm that was raining down on our little piece of normally sunny Paradise. Bravo and congrats … and actually, thanks, too.