The weekly update:
There weren't a lot of new links showing up this week; coverage of the sniper and Iraq of course dominates all. I posted a few links for sniper coverage earlier and here they are again all together. (Best Iraq links remain at last week's post).

Sniper coverage from the New York Times

beltwaysniper.us a new commemorative site.

sniper links page from the Snipercraft site...

The Washington Post coverage

Yahoo! Full Coverage has lots of news links, especially to local newspapers

BATF

Interesting stories/Weblogs:

Poynter article on PDF newspaper editions online focuses on Akron Beacon Journal and its nice page design.

Medialog new weblog by Dan Kennedy in Boston Phoenix.

And the useful links:
Reference

U.S. Highways info including historical on federal highways nationwide.

Tripnet: the road information program has data about road congestion, construction, etc.

Baseball Index a bibliographic index to the literature.

Racinghome.com links to official sites of racing teams in many circuits (cars only).
News

El Sentinel the Sun-Sentinel's new spanish language project.
Statistics

Web Sites to find statistics online nice links page.

Comprehensive sprawl study ranks metros: West Palm Beach comes in third in overall sprawl in nation. (Press release; actual study here.) From Smart Growth America.
Governments/Politics

The Virtual Trail political journalism on the Internet, a report from Pew Trusts.

Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, 2000 from Bureau of Justice Statistics.
People

Some changes in Find-a-grave site: besides finding graves of celebrities, you can now search for info on anyone's grave.

Baseball player salary database from USA Today.
Journalism

ASNE trip to Cuba coverage from Poynter.
Florida:

Miami-Dade County facts statistics from 2000 Census (including Census Tracts and other maps!)

Florida A-Z directory find anything you want to know from state government.

WhoseFlorida.com site highlights news reports on the state's problems. Compiled by state employees. Includes a link to Jeb02.com, a satirical site, and a site on his brother called All Hat No Cattle.
Business, Public Records, Tools: no links this week.