2007 Barlett & Steele winners: The Baltimore Sun

Fred Schulte and June Arney of The Baltimore Sun discuss their series, “On Shaky Ground,” which grabbed the second-place $2,000 Barlett & Steele award in 2007.

Their series in December 2006 tracked how Baltimore’s arcane system of property fees initiated in colonial times had evolved into a system of greed and lax oversight that preyed on the poor and elderly. They assembled a customized electronic database to track hundreds of lawsuits, cases and files.

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