List highlights great local accountability journalism of 2018 - Entrepreneur Generations

It's the end of the year, and "Best Of" listicles lie thick upon the ground. Here's a good one from reporter Joseph Cranney of The Post and Courier in Charleston, S.C., who compiled a list of great local accountability journalism in 2018. Among those of interest to rural readers:

• In Connecticut,  the Hartford Courant reported about how town council members in the small town of Bloomfield ordered lavish dinners on the town's dime while discussing the year's upcoming budget.
• In Columbus, Mississippi, Zach Plair and Isabelle Altman of The Dispatch obtained surveillance footage and reported that a town council member stole hundreds of dollars worth of merchandise from a Bargain Hunt store.
• In West Virginia, Eric Eyre of the Charleston Gazette-Mail found that, over the past decade, out of state drug companies had shipped more than 20 million prescription opioids to two pharmacies in a small town of 2,900.

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