- Stateline - a news site administered by the Pew Charitable Trust. Staffed by professional journalists, and drawing state-specific news stories from newspapers around the nation. Includes videos, text, transcripts, all kinds of things. Also has the daily speeches of state governors. Essentially, it’s a resource for journalists and statesmen to draw from, but it’s accessible enough that anyone can find interesting news and stories for their state (or any other state, for that matter).
- Open Congress - a free social site where you can set up an account and track specific bills, politicians, and/or issues, and recieve updates whenever there is activity on any of the items/people you are watching. You can see how your congress-people vote on issues that concern you, and you can also ‘vote’ and comment on bills, and see what other people are saying about them, too. For political junkies, it’s like a giant ball of crack coated with heroin, washed down with sixteen shots of espresso.
- Project Vote Smart - Check up on politicians, bills and initiatives, and get a better idea of what kinds of issues surround those bills, initiatives and politicians.
- Change.gov - The Obama/Biden transition team site. Follow their blog, see where they stand on issues of the day, and send in your ideas on how they can fix the American Health Care problems. Or any other problem that you see in America. Or the world. Or wherever.
- Open Secrets - Money in Politics - Great political action tool if you’re interested in the relationship between companies, lobbyists, special interest groups and politicians.
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