The reason:

I'm busy trying to find ways to pay for all the costs involved with owning Rumor Mill News, plus earning enough to pay my own bills and buy food and other necessities.

I would love to spend time on RMN the way I used to. But sadly, in these difficult economic times, it gets harder and harder to make money... any kind of money.

I have eliminated about $500.00 in overhead that I hope we never miss. I have lowered what I ask for from $3000 to $2500. The rest of the money is necessary or I lose RMN or access to the web, phones, electricity and other things I can't think of right now. But all of them are necessary to keep RMN up and running.

This month, as well as last month found me asking for an additional $600.00 to pay zapper what Conversant would have paid him if they had had all the information they needed from me.

Unfortunately, with my recent and continuing health problems, this information has been most difficult to get. I thought there would be a copy of my Ohio business papers at my local bank. But evidently, they destroy them after a certain period because there are links to them on the computer web showing my company and that it is registered with the state of Ohio... but that registration has expired.

Unfortunately, for some reason, there is no active webpage for Rumor Mill News. I have written to the state asking where is Rumor Mill News, but I have not received an answer.

Without this information, I cannot get Conversant to release the money to zapper. So, for another month, we need an additional $600.00 to pay zapper for the work he does so well and affordably.

I am going to have to get on the phone to the capital and see what more I need to do before they renew Rumor Mill News.

I am asking for zapper's $600.00 to be sent to rayelan@aol.com

and the money for RMN to be put in the fundraiser.

Please let zapper know that the money you send to rayelan@aol.com is for the $600.00 that Conversant has not paid him due to my inability to get the things to Conversant they need to prove I am a rightfully entrenched and respectable member of the business publishing community.

Thank you so much for all the support and help you have given me and zapper during all the long years we have kept on slogging through the swamp... and we don't even LIVE in Washington, D. C., although at times, it seems they are right next door due to all the reporting we do on them...