[Steve_Seattle]

"Where did all the money go?"

My question exactly. Free Republic probably uses as much or more bandwidth as Salon; Free Republic is struggling, but is trying to raise 70 thousand, not 70 million.

[GEC]

FR costs only 70 grand per quarter because of the heart put into it by JimRob and co.

Now that the lawsuits are settled, this figure may even drop in the future.

Of course, I think FR has also managed to improve and offer better services as a forum than it did even just last year. This reply page, for example, is one such improvement. This has more than merited the small increases in the quarterly budget.

If FR just wanted to make money, the fundraisers would be PBS length and not just a few days per quarter.

Long live FR!