Thanks to everyone for the kind words (and constructive criticisms) on Eat The State!'s new, expanded format. As you might expect, we'll be working the bugs out for the next few weeks. This week we had a tragic accident involving the front cover. The person(s) responsible have been obliterated and we promise that it will never ever ever happen again.

ETS! is primarily a local publication. As such, we're committed to being available at no cost to as many folks as possible, via print distribution points throughout the Seattle area and via the Internet and radio. (We'll be printing a list of distribution points in an issue soon.)

As it happens, even without asking we've also picked up quite a few mail subscriptions. For that, we set a subscription price equal to our printing and postage costs. That's been about 45 cents an issue; we're now spending another 10 cents an issue with the cost of printing four more pages weekly, which is why prices are going up accordingly. Hopefully, as we either increase our print runs or our income from other sources, we'll be able to drop the prices for mail delivery in the future.

You can subscribe before April 15 and avoid the increased rate. And--guilt alert!--those of you not paying, but who can afford to, ETS! has thus far thrived exclusively on individual donations. If you like and support what we're trying to do, please help us out. In return, we promise not to ask for money very often at all, or to take up space better used for, well, state-eating, reporting, rants, and other mischief.

In this issue...