Last week, Jim Collie, a retired Presbyterian pastor who lives in Albuquerque, donated $750 to NMPolitics.net.
“You’ve done your homework, or better said, for me, most importantly, you seem to almost always ask the next question – you don’t accept at face value an explanation or answer that has little merit, or obscures more than it clarifies,” Collie said in explaining why he supports NMPolitics.net with his money.
Collie recalls local media in West Texas during his childhood developing local stories that put the news in context. That doesn’t happen as often today.
“With localized reporting and stories of merit lost to the national homogenizers, what you are doing is so on target and so tasty as to be of great value,” he said. “Would you be insulted if I compared what you do with news to what organic gardening means to vegetable growers – the taste and value well worth the extra trouble? In other words, for this New Mexican: You pass the taste/value test.”
Not offended at all. I love the comparison.
Jim and the others who donated last week gave a combined $1,880, or just over 10 percent of the $18,000 I’m trying to raise by April 30 so I can hire a reporter. I want to publicly thank them for helping NMPolitics.net expand.
But your donations don’t just help the site grow – they keep it going.
Heath Haussamen
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