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Want to increase the amount you donate each month to ELi on PayPal? We explain here how to do that, and we give you an update on our 2018 Sustainability Campaign.

ELi needs to raise $100,000 to sustain our work in 2018. Our publisher explains why.

Want to know how much money ELi runs on, and what that money goes to? 

Why would you tell us how you're voting?

ELi will be on break through Monday, and our publisher wants you to take a 30-second reader survey before we come back.

Whenever we publish uncomfortable news about someone running for local office, as we did today, we get people asking if we really must do that. Here's the answer.

"How did we get through all of this? My answer brings us to the theme I end up with every time I write about ELi: the amazing teamwork of the people of East Lansing around ELi—around the mission of sharing local news that is accurate and nonpartisan."

Why does our publisher think you really should read our new "long-form" report about an East Lansing air conditioner?

Why are we looking for more Government and Schools reporters? And what kinds of people become ELi reporters?

What we at ELi are ready for, what we're excited about, and what we need now.

At its most recent board meeting, the East Lansing Info Board of Directors welcomed its newest member, Merem Frierson. 

The deadline approaches for ELi’s first Summer Youth Journalism Program, a two-week program happening in August. Accepted applicants aged 14-22 will be given a $250 stipend for participation and will also be paid for published reporting.

ELi's two-week-long Summer Youth Journalism Program still has a small number of spots open, and so we have extended the application deadline for people aged 14-22. Meanwhile, from you old people, we are looking for lunch money for the kids.

We believe in the production of local, nonpartisan news as a critically important locus of public service in the current media environment. And we have you to thank for making our work possible.