Gloria - you say the editor doesn't get paid and then you go on to say he gets a salary. Which one is it? If there's a salary, it must be coming from people in the community - where else would it be coming from?

It seems that some people regularly miss their afternoon naps and are in a bad mood most of the time. Community money is NOT being spent on covering the ongoing costs of producing an internet Estonian Life. The web site's editor has to bear the brunt of costs himself - travel, equipment, etc. His salary is minimal. He does an incredible job of keeping up with what's happening in the immediate community and sometimes in our neighbouring communities, knowing that sometimes we like to be informed of what the Latvians and Lithuanians are up to. Why do some people persist in being a-- h---s? Why don't they take their nasty pills and gripe somewhere else..

If this website irritates you, don't read it! Read some other papers which are available online.
Perhaps you could set up your own high quality site, or failing that, offer some of your own high standard of writing to "Eesti Elu".
I, (and apparently thousands of others internationally) am happy to vicariously visit Costa Rica, Latvian events and find out all sorts of interesting information about Estonia and Estonians.
Maintaining this site is a LOT of ongoing work. Ai-täh tegijatele!!!