Our conversation with Dallas city council member Jennifer Gates about the tornado, the Ebola crisis, and what she sees as the biggest challenges for her district was one of our Best of 2020 picks.

As the pandemic hit and then began its march across Dallas, there was an outpouring of support for front-line medical workers, and even just neighbors as we all navigated very new terrain.

The July 2020 issue looked at the Park Cities protests, which were remarkable if nothing else for the fact that the home-grown efforts happened there, explained Gillea Allison, president of D Magazine Partners, of her first pick for Best of 2020.

Although our stories about the mastermind behind the Trains at NorthPark and a trip to the Lake Austin Spa were our readers’ top picks, we’d be remiss if we didn’t also point out some of the other work that was nominated.

When we asked readers to nominate stories for the People’s Pick portion of our look at the best, most intriguing, and/or biggest stories of 2020, this story was nominated four times.