Entries Tagged as ‘Web Sightings’

October 3, 2007

Vote411.org

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/

October 3, 2007

North Carolina Administrative Code

The North Carolina Administrative Code (NCAC) is a compilation of the administrative rules of approximately 26 state agencies and 50+ occupational licensing boards.
The NCAC and related material are available on the North Carolina Office of Administrative Hearings Rules Division website: http://www.ncoah.com/rules/.

August 8, 2007

Personal Income and Per Capita Personal Income

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

Consumer Price Indexes (CPI)

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 [...]

April 13, 2007

Municipal Code Corporation - Municode.com

Contained on this website are Codes for more than 1,600 local governments (105 from North Carolina) in searchable online databases. Includes advanced and boolean search options. A few jurisdictions provide access to minutes and specialized ordinances. A multiple code search feature is also available by subscription.
http://www.municode.com/Resources/Online%20Library.asp or
http://www.municode.com/Resources/OnlineLibrary.asp

December 20, 2006

North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics

SCHS collects, analyzes, and publishes North Carolina health statistics including vital records (births, deaths, marriages, and divorces), county level information, data on cancer and birth defects, and the North Carolina Health Atlas.
http://www.schs.state.nc.us/SCHS/

November 1, 2006

Federal Citizen Information Center

If you have a question about the federal government or about the government’s take on various consumer issues, the Federal Citizen Information Center is a good place to look for the answer. The Center is a department of the General Services Administration, an independent agency of the United States government. The Center bills itself as [...]

October 26, 2006

Forms Catalog

The Forms Catalog provides a common access point to federal agency forms. Over 5,000 business and citizen forms are represented on the web site and the number is growing as data is continually added and updated by agency partners. Searches are possible by agency, form number, title, or keyword. http://www.forms.gov/bgfPortal/citizen.portal

October 19, 2006

News Feeds

The Knapp Library Blog has set up an account with Bloglines.com to monitor news feeds from many news outlets and other organizations. Just click on the News Feeds link under the Blogroll. The link takes you to a new page where you can read all the day’s headlines from many different sources. The page also [...]