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Why $6 a year?
Reading the black [index] is free, and it stays free. Comments are for members, and membership is $6 a year.
That modest amount helps pay for the real cost of this work: acquiring data that isn't free to the public, filing Freedom of Information Act and state public records requests to get numbers that agencies don't publish, and keeping the site running.
It also keeps the conversation in good hands. Every member is a real person who chose to be here.