| Maybe you enjoy the commentary. Maybe you enjoy the community. Maybe you enjoy the occasional shouting matches. Or, maybe you just think that the site offers an important resource. What do you need money for?
No one is going to get filthy stinking rich doing this. However, those of us who administrate the site are finding that we do spend quite a lot of time working on it - doing things like programming, research, news analysis, writing posts, and maintaining our political library of over 150 "mini-blogs" dealing with Michigan elected officials. As Michiganliberal.com gets busier, this workload gets heavier and heavier.
Your sponsorship helps to cover the costs of bandwidth, and also provides a very small amount of income for Eric Baerren, the guy responsible for administering this site. In fact, he uses money from this site to pay his rent.
By sponsoring Michigan Liberal, you'll help the site grow and realize its full potential as an information source for our state's liberal, progressive, and Democratic community. For instance, here are just a few really neat new things we'd like to do:
- Updated feature/profile sections for all the Michigan elected positions
- More investigative and in-depth reporting.
- More comprehensive legislative analysis.
- More candidate interviews.
- Recruit and supervise correspondents in different areas of the state.
- Pay lawyers and accountants to help keep us from getting into trouble.
Who owns Michiganliberal.com?
Michiganliberal editor Eric Baerren is the primary stakeholder. Eric is very frugal, uses a bicycle to get around, and has his fingers in the pies of several elements of the progressive movement.
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