US State & Regional

Matters concerning the operation of the fifty United States.

Resources in this category:

All Things Political
http://www.allthingspolitical.org/

This directory guides users to the government homepages of cities, counties and states. It also provides links to local government agencies and associations.

American Law Sources On-line
http://www.lawsource.com/also/

A collection of free legal resources for the United States (both federal and individual states), Canada, and Mexico. The documents include codes, cases, constitutions, and legislation. Many of the documents are searchable and/or browsable. Some documents, such as municipal codes, are available on the city and county level.

Court Forms
http://forms.lp.findlaw.com/

"FindLaw has compiled the Internet's most comprehensive court forms offering. At this site, visitors can access over 8,000 forms from United States federal and state courts for free from one easy-to-use location. The federal forms collection contains court forms for federal appellate, district and bankruptcy courts and the state forms collection contains court forms on topics ranging from adoption to divorce to civil harassment. All the forms are available in PDF format and are searchable by title or form number. FindLaw continually updates the site by adding new and revised forms."

Follow the Money: The Institute on Money in State Politics
http://followthemoney.org/

"The nonpartisan Institute for Money in State Politics tracks contributions in all 50 states and makes this data easily searchable online". This non-profit organization provides data on who is giving and who is getting money within state politics via their searchable database.

Frontera NorteSur
http://frontera.nmsu.edu/

FNS provides online coverage of events along the U.S.-Mexico border, drawn from a variety of news sources. Areas of focus include commerce, immigration policy, health, and the environment, among others. Also contains a "Border Facts & Maps" section with information on population, politics, maquiladoras, and further subjects relating to border studies.

FTA Links to State Tax Pages
http://www.taxadmin.org/fta/link/link.html

Federation of Tax Administrators (of U.S. states) provides links to internet sites of state treasury departments which have an internet presence. Some of the states have posted downloadable state tax forms and other information of interest to taxpayers, including taxpayer information publications. The FTA site describes the general contents of each state's site within its link page. The site also includes several charts showing the 50 states' tax rates for income taxes, sales taxes and many other taxes.

INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
http://infomine.ucr.edu/

INFOMINE is a virtual library holding a collection of thousands of annotated and indexed links to important university-level research and educational tools on the Internet. Links are divided in a variety of subjects, which can be browsed or searched by keyword. Subjects include social sciences and humanities, instructional resources, visual and performing arts, biological, medical, social, and agricultural sciences, computer sciences and the Internet, and government information.

LegiStorm
http://www.legistorm.com/browse_by_representative.html

Provides the names, titles and salaries of all the staff members employed by each US Representative and Senator. In addition it provides lists of those employed by committees and administrative offices. You can also find information about state government salaries as well.

List of Statutory Citations of State FOI Laws
http://www.missouri.edu/~foiwww/citelist.html

This collection of web sites from the University of Missouri-Columbia contains basic statutes about open meetings and open records for each state. Many states have multiple statutes that provide exemptions.

Municipal Code Corporation
http://www.municode.com/

Collection consisting mostly of local government Codes of Ordinances from around the United States. Can browse by location.

Municipal Codes Online
http://www.spl.org/default.asp?pageID=collection_municodes

A directory of city and county codes by state that are "available for unrestricted searching on the World Wide Web."

National Association of Counties
http://www.naco.org

"The National Association of Counties (NACo) is the national voice for America's county governments. Since 1935, NACo has represented the interests of counties before Congress and the Administration." This site contains a list of county and corporate members and links to state associations of counties, professional affiliates and other related organizations. It also provides information about member services, legislative issues and news affecting county governments.

Nebraska Public Documents
http://cdrh.unl.edu/nebpubdocs/

Straight from the source--the Nebraska Public Documents project "provides free public access to digitized historic annual reports of state agencies in Nebraska for the use of students, scholars, and the general public." Documents created between 1891 and 1956 are available.

Ohio Consumers' Counsel Consumer Assistance Handbook
http://www.pickocc.org/publications/handbook/

"While the OCC Consumer Assistance Handbook is most specifically geared toward Ohio consumers, it contains information useful to people across the U.S. Topics include avoiding telephone scams such as slamming and cramming, reducing unwanted calls from telemarketers, deciphering utility bills, choosing long-distance providers and gas suppliers, reading gas/electric/water meters, home energy efficiency and more."

The Pennsylvania Code
http://www.pacode.com/

"The Pennsylvania Code is an official publication of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It contains regulations and other documents filed with the Legislative Reference Bureau under the act of July 31, 1968 (P. L. 769, No. 240) (45 P. S. §§ 1102, 1201‹1208 and 1602) and 45 Pa.C.S. Chapters 5, 7 and 9, known as the Commonwealth Documents Law (CDL). It consists of 55 titles."

State and National Freedom of Information Resources
http://www.nfoic.org/resources/

The National Freedom of Information Coalition guides users to obtaining information under state and federal open meetings and open records laws. It provides links to web pages that contain descriptions and links for FOI publications, contacts, legislation and current events.

State of Michigan
http://michigan.gov/

Official website of the State of Michigan.

State of Wisconsin
http://www.wisconsin.gov/state/home/app?COMMAND=gov.wi.state...

The official site for the State of Wisconsin.

Stately Knowledge
http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/stateknow/

Need to know the capital of Alabama? Want to know which hockey teams are in California? How about the size of Montana? You can find all of that information here. This Internet Public Library resource lists official state sites for state government, library, historical society, museum, archives, parks, travel and tourism, kids, and the most interesting facts and people associatied with each state.

U.S. Court Forms
http://www.uscourtforms.com/

Court and other legal forms from the U.S. Federal Goverment and the individual states (including Puerto Rico & Washington D.C.). Browse by branch of government and topic, or search within each individual jurisdiction. There are over 40,000 forms in all, available in Adobe Acrobat (pdf) format.

U.S. Income Tax Preparation
http://www.ipl.org/div/pf/entry/48535

This IPL pathfinder provides information and assistance on the income tax preparation process. Topics includes tax basics, tax law changes, IRS forms and publications, tips for reducing income tax, and tax planning advice. Both print and Internet sources are provided.

USA.gov
http://www.usa.gov/

The U.S. Government's official web portal providing links to key information for citizens, businesses and nonprofits, government employees and visitors to the U.S. Includes a government agency index and topical list of available resources.