Government and Politics

Internet

• MapLight.org - correlating legislators' voting records with whom has bought "access"
• OpenSecrets.org - tracking contributions to legislators
• Chilling Effects Clearinghouse : attacks on online rights (for example attempts to suppress content on websites)
• IPDI Institute For Politics Democracy & The Internet
• PoliticalFact.com (St. Peterburg Times and Congressional Quarterly)
• Politico.com
• RealClearPolitics.com
• Kitchen Democracy - interesting approach to online forums

Local

• City of Palo Alto Home Page
• Barron Park Association of South Palo Alto
• Civic Web Sites
• Jordan Middle School
• The Palo Alto Historical Association
• History of Palo Alto Street Names
• Yahoo! - Regional:U.S. States:California:Cities:Palo Alto

Creek Restoration

• Bay Area Action Arastradero Preserve Proposal, 2-1-96
• Open Space/Parks

SF Bay Area

• Assoc of SF Bay Area Governments
• Santa Cruz Page
• SlugVideo Home Page (UC Santa Cruz)
• San Jose State University
• San Francisco Bay Area: Social & Cultural Resources
  Avoid this site: As of August 1997, it was either nonresponsive or gave access only to the top level page: a sad commentary on a company whose name is "Internet Presence Provider".
• Clarion95: BayLinks (Social & Cultural Resources)
  Repeated DNS failures
• San Francisco Ethics Commission - exploring a variety of interesting political ethics problems, including issues related to the use of the Internet in politics and government

California Government

• Pete Rates the Propositions: Sensible opinions on the California ballot propositions. By Pete Stahl.
• California State Licensing Board - Consumers for contractors (remodeling, construction)
  California State Licensing Board licenses, requests, ...
• Voting Machine controversies
  • Diebold - Self-service, security, election and service solutions : reply to discoveries of security weaknesses in touch screen systems
• Best and worst states for taxes

US Government

• IRS (1997)
  Free filing: providers and who qualifies (varies between providers)
  IRS (older)
  J.K. Lasser Tax Guide 1997
• Library of Congress See section on Dead Sea Scrolls
• Legislative Info
• House of Representatives (Directory)
• Access U.S. Patent Database
• U.S. Copyright Office Home Page
  10 Big Myths about copyright explained
• FedStatsLarge collection of US national statistics
• GovBenefits : information on thousands of federal and state assistance programs

US Politics

• Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW.org) - see the Pig Book for compliations of pork (set-asides, earmarks, ...)
• 105th CONGRESS FRONT PAGE
• The Police Officer's Internet Directory

International

• Eritrean Govenment Home Page

Other Neighborhood Associations (for reference)

• Evergreen Online (Evergreen Neighborhood Assoc of San Jose) -- nice set of web pages
• Willow Glen Neighborhood Association
• Holiday Lake Estates
• Brookwood Terrace Neighborhood
• Rose Garden Neighborhood Preservation Assoc
  and good collection of Links
• Pacifica, CA (Welcome to the Natural World) Great pages
• Sunnyvale Baylands Park: Great page, nice wildlife table
• Neighborhood Links - City of Tempe

Misc

• Hot US Community and Community Economic Development Sites
• The logical Fallacies: Index
• Propaganda (overview of)
• Shirky: A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy

Candidates

• California Voter Foundation
• Project Vote Smart
• Power of the Vote (L.A. Times)
• politicalaccess.com YOUR ONLINE GUIDE TO POLITICAL, ELECTION AND LEGISLATIVE INFORMATION
• Rough & Tumble
• League of Women Voters, Palo Alto Chapter

Election Services

• Ondas Elections Services

Survey packages

Note: Perennial was the one most recommended to me, and I like it. Did not try the others.

• Perennial Perdennis 200 Survey
• Customer Survey, Online Survey Software, Customer Satisfaction Surveys - Zoomerang
• Ad-free Wwwtoolz Web Poll
• Votations.com

Ethics

• Visualizing Campaign Finance Data in San Francisco| An Interested Persons Gathering Kudlick Multimedia Classroom

Use of Web/Internet in Politics

• Examples from the Howard Dean presidential campaign
  • Project DeanLight
  • Dean for America: Home : Widely regarded as sophisticated use of the Web
  • Blog for America