Weekend update: Other things found this week:
In this depressing week, most postings again went to the election coverage on The Infomaniac WeBlog on Herald.com. Maybe things will get back again to something like normal here. At any rate, I noticed the Herald blog has a new ad on top that slows loading...just like it used to be on Herald.com. Some readers haven't been able to get in since they added it. Great.


More links....

Reference:

New York Metropolitan Flora Project has a plant encyclopedia of plants common to Northeast. From Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
Statistics:

Less Cash in their Pockets: Trends in Incomes, Wages, Taxes, and Health Spending of Middle-Income Families, 2000-03. From the Economic Policy Institute.

Dropout rates in the U.S., 2001 from NCES.

Graduation Watch: get grad. rate by college.

National Priorities Project database: state data on socio-economic needs and federal expenditures. Create charts, graphs. Must register (free) after first use.
Journalism:

Grand Forks Herald interviews Al Neuharth.
News:

100 election front pages from Poynter.

Recent Hurricanes in the Caribbean, great map from USAID on ReliefWeb site. Also: Caribbean hurricanes fact sheet.
Governments, Politics:

Offshoring American Jobs: Corporations, Campaign Cash and Bush Administration Policies, new report from Public Citizen (Whitehouseforsale.org).

State Department WebFeeds: get the latest news, press briefings, speeches, etc. in your newsreader software.

Independent contractors make costs balloon: Raleigh N&O does a study of Blackwater's contracts in Iraq.

Real Clear Politics has latest polls and news.
People:

Ziggs.com professional search has profiles of business people.