Last November we promised to hire a reporter in Ottawa if Tyee Builders pledged more than $100,000.

In three weeks, Tyee Builders pledged more than $100,000.

So now, as you read this, veteran reporter Jeremy Nuttall and his wife, Mao Yanhong, are rolling down the Trans-Canada highway on their way to Ottawa. Jeremy, born and raised in British Columbia with reporting stints around the province and in China, is days away from establishing the Tyee's first Ottawa bureau.

Money from readers like you made this possible. But now he needs your brains...