Update June 21: Summer is here! Bluestem thanks everyone who gave so generously. Some of the smallest donations were among the most generous, given the circumstances of those giving, while the larger were impressive by any standard.
Thank you all again. [end update]
It's been over a year since Bluestem conducted a general purpose "bleg" (a blog begging for donations) and we find that it's time to shake the begging cup a little harder.
If you've come to rely on Bluestem for independent investigative blogging, projects like the Minimum Wage Whip Count, and general rural hayseed sassiness, please consider helping out. You can mail contributions (payable to Sally Jo Sorensen) to P.O. Box 108, Maynard MN 56260 or use the paypal link below:
In the year or so since our last bleg, Bluestem has broken stories:
- Tom Emmer's peculiar TV commercial (featured on the Colbert Report)
- the Teamsters' rescinding the endorsement of State Senator Roger Reinert after a legislative liquor law scuffle
- two Minnesota senators' letter warning colleagues that marijuana was a dangerously addictive drug, t
- the trip (cancelled after our post) of a state EBQ staffer to speak in an industry conference before Minnesota's rules were approved,
- a Minnesota House's candidate's adsurdly homophobic DVD against the Safe Schools Act, tacked Larry Klayman's lawsuit against local journos,
and other posts that inform and entertain you.
We pioneered the use of the citizen-sourced whip count, followed pollinator-friendly legislation when no one else in Minnesotan's media was looking, covered superweed hearings and other areas. We've been citied by the Colbert Report, Mother Jones, Wonkette, Think Progress, Right Wing Watch, and other national and state media.
Although Bluestem has created sponsored content for an issue we cared deeply about (marriage equality in Spring 2013), such support is rare for us--and this session's coverage was not underwritten by anyone other than individual readers.
Those who want to see Bluestem to continue to cover Minnesota's politics with a rural flare, please contribute if you can.
You can mail contributions (payable to Sally Jo Sorensen) to P.O. Nox 108, Maynard MN 56260 or use the paypal link below:
Donations aren't tax deductable; there's no write-off to suporting our writing. Thank you.
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