We're please to begin running two new features this week: "Stump Talk," an environmental column that will run every other week (alternating with MediaWatch) and track local and regional enviro news. It'll be coordinated by long-time local activist John Reese. Also, this week marks our launch of "This Modern World," a fabulous and long-running comic strip that nobody in Seattle has ever carried before (so far as we're aware) on a weekly basis. As with all of our artists and writers, Tom Tomorrow is donating his work at no cost, so be sure to buy his books and support his work, and contact him if you know of paying gigs. That goes for all the fine folks who donate their talents to ETS!!

We promised part two of the Olympia summary this week, but with Paul Allen's media blitz in full force we felt it important to get this week's rather longish catalog of "no" reasons out there; we'll finish mopping up Oly next week (along with a rant on how @#$&^! difficult it is to find out what the hell they're doing).

ETS! will be having another organizing meeting Monday, June 2, 7:00 PM, at the place where we usually have our Monday night production parties: Univ. Baptist Church, 4554 12th Ave. NE. The response and support for our eight- page format in its first two months has been great, but we're not near being self-sustaining yet with subscriptions and donations. We need to get serious about ETS! being fundable over the long haul. We'll discuss both that and how (or how often) we'll publish in the summer, when several key people will flee town for weeks at a time.

We'll keep saying it: ETS! is a non-profit, all-volunteer operation. We're your neighbors, your co-workers, your friends, you. Individually, we just sit around and yell at the TV...together, we are heard. Support us! If you have money but no time and value ETS!'s work, consider a regular pledge or tithing; one of the problems with relying on benefits and donors is that it's irregular income. And thanks to the literally hundreds of people who've helped with time, info, good will, and donations so far.