Ben,
This has been discussed around here for some time now and we know that MA is a cost center. We know that it costs $1 to sell $1 worth of advertising, so some of us think that it would not take a major change to impact that to the direct benefit of the general membership.

I don't think MA is a bad magazine, although there are better ones out there for less. I don't think MA is used properly as a communications venue. I do think MA should be self supporting rather than a drain on our dues.

A dollar here and a dollar there and pretty soon you are talking about $58 a year with no good tangible thing the member can point to as coming from that expense. Want to bet when the next dues increase will be? The tea leaves I am reading say there is going to be one for the 2006 dues year. What do yours say?