TO:	Blueprint and The New Democrat subscribers
FROM:	Peter Ross Range, editor, Blueprint Tom Mirga, editor, The New Democrat
DATE:	February 28, 2001
RE:	Important news about your subscription

The Democratic Leadership Council is merging its two flagship publications, Blueprint and The New Democrat. Our new, expanded, and dramatically improved bimonthly magazine will retain the Blueprint name and begin publication shortly. While we are getting it ready for its rollout, we will publish one more issue of Blueprint in its current format.

Each issue of the new Blueprint will include:

• a lively new section of short features, profiles, and "news you can use" produced in conjunction with the DLC Web site, New Democrats Online (www.ndol.org);
• a meaty, in-depth treatment of a major political or policy issue in our cover package;
• essays by America's leading New Democrat thinkers and doers;
• timely public opinion research by former White House pollster Mark Penn;
• DLC founder and chief executive officer Al From's signature column from The New Democrat -- plus a new column by Progressive Policy Institute President Will Marshall.

Current subscribers to The New Democrat will begin receiving Blueprint. If you have any questions about your subscription, please contact Krista Colson by telephone (800-546-0027, in Washington 202-546-0007), by fax (202-544-5002); by mail (Magazine Subscriptions, DLC, 600 Pennsylvania Ave. S.E., Suite 400, Washington, D.C. 20003); or by email (blueprint@dlc.org).