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Quotes from Bloggers:
"Feedback. Cricitism. Feedback"
Paul Smith, California, Smithblog, smithblog.com
"I think it would be an interesting process if in the future the state blogging community were to be given some form of input into the selection process. The current process (whatever it actually is) is certain to cause hard feelings - transparency and participation are essential."
Steve Hanson, Wisconsin, Uppity Wisconsin, http://uppitywis.org
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1.1. A process for picking bloggers that was completely non-transparent was certain to case dissension among a group of people who spend most of their time fighting for more transparent processes in government.
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Paul Smith, California, Smithblog, smithblog.com
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TheSanctuary - Immigration
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]]> Sun, 19 Aug 2007 19:17:01 +0000 mod http://blogsunited06.pbwiki.com/State+Legislative+Websites email.hidden@example.com (Aldon Hynes) Aldon Hynes edited State Legislative Websites Wikipedia has a pretty good list of State Legislative bodies, and links to there websites. It can be found at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_state_legislatures_of_the_United_States
The National Conference of State Legislatures has a comprehensive review of State Legislative Websites. It can be found here:
http://www.ncsl.org/public/leglinks.cfm
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Discussions can also be found at http://www.myleftnutmeg.com and http://www.ctlocapolitics.net where State Legislators often come to live blog or post comments.
CT was actually the first state to actively fund making legislative info available on the web. I think it was about 1995. Most states out and out laughed at them at the time.
Delaware
http://www.legis.state.de.us/Legislature.nsf/?Opendatabase
http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/legislation.htm
Search capabilities are available to registered users. Registration is free and is available to people outside of Kentucky. Finding bills and votes appears cumbersome.
Michigan
http://www.legislature.mi.gov/
They do have an RSS feed, but you get all bills. It can't be limited to watching a bill, or monitoring one committee, or one legislator - at least far as I ]]> Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:12:49 +0000 mod http://blogsunited06.pbwiki.com/Blogs+United+FAQ email.hidden@example.com (kid oakland) kid oakland edited Blogs United FAQ Who is Blogs United for?
This group is by and for local and regional bloggers. Our focus is progressive politics. Our goal is to be broadly inclusive. Participants should either have a relevant URL they blog at or significant expertise relevant to local blogs and a willingness to serve as a resource to local political bloggers. The vast majority of the participants are local bloggers.
currently 160 170 DFA-link participants and 159 210+ Google Group participants representing over 27 States. This wiki will have some form of Blog Roll soon.
How can I contact Blogs United?
Email the group organizer: kidoaklandactivism@comcast.net
]]> Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:39:38 +0000 mod http://blogsunited06.pbwiki.com/State+Legislative+Websites email.hidden@example.com (Aldon Hynes) Aldon Hynes edited State Legislative Websites The budget is available online (http://www.ofm.wa.gov/budget/highlights/default.htm), and the Office of Fiscal Management works hard to make it readable by the people.
However, people in Washington have express disappointment that there is no access to video.
West Virginia
http://www.legis.state.wv.us/
West Virginia has an excellent legislative site that really makes it easy to follow both houses when they are in regular or special session. I have been rather impressed with the information available as well as their ability to keep it up to date. There is a significant amount of educational information as well as contact information for all the members of the House of Delegates and the State Senate. Not bad for Wild and Wonderful West Virginia.
Wisconsin
http://www.legis.state.wi.us/
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New York
http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg
NY's Assembly website has a page where you can look up bills. (The state Senate also has a page, but it stinks, and you can get Senate bills from the Assembly page.) Anyone can access all the info available -- Assembly bills start with an "A" before the number (e.g. A5724), and Senate bills start with an "S". Of our three major levels of government (national, state, city), the state's website is by far the worst. You can't search for bills from past sessions, and you generally can't find out who voted which way on most bills that do get a vote. This, I believe, is a function of our dysfunctional government (pun intended -- sorry about that).
If accessing the stat]]> Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:30:39 +0000 mod http://blogsunited06.pbwiki.com/State+Legislative+Websites email.hidden@example.com (Aldon Hynes) Aldon Hynes edited State Legislative Websites http://www.leg.state.nv.us/
The Nevada Legislature's web site includes session information links, interim session links, as well as links to members of the Assembly and the State Senate. The page also provides access to the Nevada Legislative Counsel Bureau. http://www.leg.state.nv.us/lcb/lcb.cfm
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Ohio
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/
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Discussions can be found at http://missouripolitics.net/
Nevada
http://www.leg.state.nv.us/
The Nevada Legislature's web site includes session information links, interim session links, as well as links to members of the Assembly and the State Senate. The page also provides access to the Nevada Legislative Counsel Bureau. http://www.leg.state.nv.us/lcb/lcb.cfm
Ohio
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/
Washington has a site to be proud of. It's updated about as often as the national legislature sites are, which means it's a few days delayed. The leadership and crews work really hard to put up bills, amendments, and contact info for the various committees. But it still takes people getting in their cars and watching to make sense of how things work.
The budget is available online (http://www.ofm.wa.gov/budget/highlights/default.htm), and th]]> Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:22:24 +0000 mod http://blogsunited06.pbwiki.com/State+Legislative+Websites email.hidden@example.com (Aldon Hynes) Aldon Hynes edited State Legislative Websites http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/legislation.htm
Search capabilities are available to registered users. Registration is free and is available to people outside of Kentucky. Finding bills and votes appears cumbersome.
Minnesota
http://www.leg.state.mn.us/
Pretty easy to use, great search engines to track bills, find your reps and the district you live in.
Missouri
http://www.moga.state.mo.us/
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! Alabama
http://www.legislature.state.al.us/

You can use it to look up your state Senator or Representative and get the text and status of current bills. There is supposed to be live audio of the sessions, but I don’t know people who have been able to get it to work. Alabama definitely don\'t have video unless a news organization is there. The biggest gripe with the Alabama website is that a lot of the features only work if you are using MS Windows and Internet Explorer. People have complained about that, but so far no change.

! Alaska
http://w3.legis.state.ak.us/index.php
This site, like many other legislative websites has a lot of abbreviations that may intimidate people who are not insiders. It has a very nice Bill Tracking Management Facility (BTMF). You can monitor your BTMF account with th]]> Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:53:34 +0000 add