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In an effort to make Pub Def even better, we recently announced two new internships that will allow two important and exciting things:

1) Expansion of coverage. If you think it sometimes seems like we’re in two places at once, wait until we actually are!

2) Pass on our tools and techniques to a new generation of citizen journalists. We can’t do this forever and someone’s going to have to take the baton.

Last week Pub Def received its first donation ever via that little “Make a Donation” button to the left. It was for $75 (15% of an intern’s monthly stipend). A few days later we received another unsolicited donation. This one was for $25. Together, that $100 is going to pay for about a week of coverage from a Pub Def intern! So thank you very much.

Without sounding too much like NPR, let us just point out that the Kansas City Star has just launched a for-pay political blog (subscriptions are $395 a year). We want to keep Pub Def free, but we also want to keep Pub Def around. So if you value our content, think about making a donation every now and then. Even if it’s just $5 (that’s 1% of an intern’s stipend!), it helps.

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