October 3, 2007
Launched by the League of Women Voters Education Fund in October 2006 to be a nonpartisan “one-stop-shop” for election related information. Here you can find information about voting options, election dates, candidates, polling places (polling place locator), registration deadlines, and voting machines.
http://www.vote411.org/
August 10, 2007

This is the third edition of the previously published Managing Small Cities and Counties: A Practical Guide. As a comprehensive text on the subject of local government services, this revision is relevant to local governments of all sizes.
This edition is refocused and updated to include the demographic, economic, technology and cultural trends that affect the management of service delivery. New chapters discuss the shift from “government” to “governance,” alternative methods of service delivery, community development, and the five management practices that are fast becoming the standard for professional local government management.
http://bookstore.icma.org/NEW_P151.cfm
August 8, 2007
From the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis: Regional Economic Accounts - Local Area Personal Income. Income tables for the nation, states, regions, metropolitan areas, and BEA economic areas.
http://www.bea.gov/regional/reis/
August 8, 2007
By the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Consumer Price Indexes (CPI) program produces monthly data on changes in the prices paid by urban consumers for a representative basket of goods and services.
Price indexes are available for the U.S., the four Census regions, size of city, cross-classifications of regions and size-classes, and for 26 local areas. Indexes are available for major groups of consumer expenditures (food and beverages, housing, apparel, transportation, medical care, recreation,education and communications, and other goods and services), for items within each group, and for special categories, such as services.
Monthly indexes are available for the U.S., the four Census regions, and some local areas. More detailed item indexes are available for the U.S. than for regions and local areas.
Indexes are available for two population groups: a CPI for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) which covers approximately 87 percent of the total population and a CPI for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) which covers 32 percent of the population.
Some series, such as the U.S. City Average All items index, begin as early as 1913.
http://stats.bls.gov/cpi/
April 13, 2007
This book provides a single source of biographical information for the thousands of individuals who have held high elective and appointive offices in the United States federal, state, and municipal governments since independence in 1776. The first half of the book lists positions in the government with a chronological record of the individuals who have held the positions and the duration of their terms of office … The second half of the book is a biographical index of individuals found in the earlier sections listed in alphabetical order … http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-2598-3
March 4, 2007
When two or more independent governments share a common water resource, the timing and magnitude of the respective individual uses can be continual sources of conflict. Water scarcity is evident throughout much of the western United States and consequently water sharing between the states is expanding in scope. The growing use of shared water resources is often a major source of legal and political conflict. The problem is magnified in the international area. In 1995, ASCE initiated the Shared Use of Transboundary Water Resources (SUTWR) Project, whose purpose was to review existing transboundary water sharing agreements and develop …
http://www.asce.org/bookstore/book.cfm?book=5921