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July 30, 2008 at 1:05 a.m.
I have an ongoing fascination with issues that are, to most people, boring as hell. I'm fascinated with school reform, demographics, infrastructure, and in all cases, data.
The problem with such stories, from a freelance perspective, is that they're tough (for me) to make interesting enough to sell, even if they're really important.
Fortunately, I met up with David Cohn at CopyCamp in San Jose last month, and he encouraged me to put a pitch up on Spot.us, his new project to crowdfund local investigative reporting (more info here). Here's what I want to write ...
