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Local, Wisconsin, States, U.S., World, Politics, Taxes

   
  Local 
   
 

City of Stevens Point
Stevens Point Website
A guide to the services and officials of Stevens Point. Lists city officials, etc.

Village of Plover
Village of Plover Website

Village of Rosholt
Village of Rosholt Website

Portage County
Portage County
With listings for agencies located there.

Portage County Job Opportunities
A list of job opportunities with Portage County.

  •  Portage County Household  Clean Sweep 2005 . Portage County Solid Waste Department announces Household Hazardous Waste Continuous Clean Sweep Program. Click here for information on agricultural clean sweep.


  • Portage County Comprehensive Planning Program -- Local Unit plan  Local Unit plans are posted to this website following Plan Commission approval of the draft comprehensive plan.


  • Portage County Land Info Website.   Portage County WI launches land information web site.

  • Portage County Crime Stoppers.

    Community Connections & SPIN
    Community Connections is a free, confidential referral phone line [(715) 345-5976 or toll free at (877)-631-1600] and web site SPIN serving Portage County. This database is continuously updated to ensure accurate, up-to-date information connecting callers to local services, agencies and groups. 

    State of Wisconsin

    Find your Wisconsin State Representative or State Senator.


    Representative Molepske - 71th Assembly District (City of Stevens Point, Village of Plover & areas south)
    Representative Vruwink - 70th Assembly District. (Plover Township, Linwood Township & Junction City area)
    Representative Petrowski - 86th Assembly District. (Alban township - Rosholt area)

    State Senator Lassa - 24th Senate District.
    State Senator Decker - 29th Senate District. (Alban township - Rosholt area)

    Federal

    Social Security office locator by Zip Code.

    US Social Security Administration
    The Wisconsin Rapids field office. 930 WOOD AVENUE Wisconsin Rapids, WI 54494

    US Social Security Administration
    The Wausau field office. 352 GRAND AVENUE Wausau, WI 54403
       
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      Wisconsin
       
     

    County Workforce Profiles of Wisconsin -- http://www.dwd.state.wi.us/lmi/cp_pdf/cp_mainx.htm

    Demographic Services Center(State Data Center) --http://www.doa.state.wi.us/dhir/boir/demographic/

    Wisconsin Badger -- http://www.wisconsin.gov/state/home
    A starting point to guide you to Wisconsin state agencies and departments.

    Tax forms -- http://www.dor.state.wi.us/html/formpub.html

    Political Parties -- See below.

       
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      Other States
       
     

    State & Local Government on the Web -- http://www.statelocalgov.net/index.cfm
    Links to state, county, and city government in the United States.

    State Search -- https://www.nascio.org/aboutNascio/profiles/
    Links to profiles of each state, find links to home pages and other information.

    Tax Forms -- http://www.taxadmin.org/fta/forms.ssi

       
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      United States
       
     

    FIRSTGOV -- http://www.firstgov.gov
    User-friendly access to online United States government information and services.

    GPO Access (U.S.Government Printing Office) -- http://www.gpoaccess.gov/index.html
    Comprehensive access to United States government electronic information from agency responsible for permanent public access to these services.

    Uncle Sam-Who's Who in the Federal Government -- http://exlibris.memphis.edu/resource/unclesam/whos.html
    Biographical information about current United States cabinet officers, Congressional leaders and committee chairs, Supreme Court justices, ambassadors, and heads of some federal agencies.

    Congress

    Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress from 1774 to Present -- http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp

    Capitol Spotlight[Real Player] --http://www.c-span.org/capitolspotlight/
    A joint service of C-Span and Congressionl Quarterly, Inc., Capitol Spotlight is an online newsletter
    highlighting events and issues on Capitol Hill

    Congressional Directory --http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cdirectory/index.html

    Contacting the Congress -- http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/

    House of Representatives -- http://www.house.gov/

    Senate -- http://www.senate.gov/

    THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet -- http://thomas.loc.gov/home/thomas2.html

    Executive

    Executive Branch Resources -- http://lcweb.loc.gov/global/executive/fed.html
    Listing of major agencies compiled by the Library of Congress.

    Federal Government Resources on the Web --http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/federal.html
    Comprehensive guide to United States government and other related sites maintained by the University of Michigan

    U.S. Government Agency Index --http://www.washlaw.edu/doclaw/executive5m.html
    Compiled by Washburn Law Library, a comprehensive listing of federal government links.

    White House -- http://whitehouse.gov/

    Forms

    Copyright -- http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/forms/

    Federal Student Aid -- http://www.ed.gov/offices/OSFAP/Students/apply/express.html

    Taxes -- http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/forms_pubs/index.html

    Uncle Sam - Forms from the Feds -- http://exlibris.memphis.edu/resource/unclesam/forms.html
    Useful collection of links to the most requested downloadable government electronic forms. Among the agencies listed are the Office of Copyright, Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration, Immigration, Internal Revenue Service, National Science Foundation, and Veterans Administration. Links to Passport Application forms are also provided. The format of documents varies by site, and many are in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format. Maintained by librarians at the University of Memphis.

    Grants - Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance -- http://www.cfda.gov

    Judiciary/Supreme Court

    Federal Courts -- http://www.uscourts.gov/
    Links to Federal Court system.

    Historical Supreme Court Decisions - FedWorld/FLITE -- http://www.fedworld.gov/supcourt/index.htm
    The archive consists of over 7,400 Supreme Court opinions from 1937 to June, 1975. Searchable by case name or by keyword.

    Judicial Branch Resources -- http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/usjudic.html
    A guide to Federal Judicial links as compiled by the Library of Congress.

    Supreme Court Decisions -- http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/index.html(via Cornell University's Legal Information Institute)
    Released on day of decision. Also back to 1990 by topic (now searchable), court calendar, schedule of oral arguments, biographical info on the current justices (with pictures, and link to recent decisions), historic decisions info, and more. The site to begin researching U.S. Supreme Court information.

    U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit -- http://www.ca7.uscourts.gov/
    Serving Wisconsin and the Midwest

    U.S. Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin -- http://www.wied.uscourts.gov/

    U.S. Court, Western District of Wisconsin -- http://www.wiw.uscourts.gov/

    Publications

    Catalog of U.S. Government Publications --http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/locators/cgp/index.html
    Formerly the Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publication, this database provides bibliographc records of federal government products distributed to Federal Depository Libraries. Coverage begins in January 1994 with daily updates of the database.

    FDLP Electronic Collection (Federal Depository Library Program Electronic Collection) -- http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/ec/index/html
    Access to both print and electronic information published by the United States government.

    FedWorld -- http://www.fedworld.gov/
    A gateway to federal information resources, especially National Technical Information Service (NTIS) reports.

    Statistics

    American Factfinder-Census Bureau -- http://factfinder.census.gov/
    Easy access to some of the Bureau's largest and most widely- used data sets. Users can create a variety of tables, reports, or maps with information on their community, the economy, or American society in just a few steps.

    Fedstats -- http://www.fedstats.gov/
    Access to all those statistics produced by 70 federal agencies.

    Consumer Price Index -- http://stats.bls.gov/cpi/
    For prices of individual products see: Consumer Price Index-Average Price Data -- http://146.142.4.24/labjava/outside.jsp?survey=ap

    See also a selected list of other federal government websites used frequently by Madison Public Library reference staff.

       
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      International
       
     

    Embassy World -- http://www.embassyworld.com/embassy/directory.htm
    Search by host or guest country using drop-down menus or scroll through a list of embassies and consulates of the world, embassies of other nations in the United States, U.S. embassies worldwide, and United Nations permanent missions. Provides contact information and links to Web pages, when available.

    Governments on the WWW -- http://www.gksoft.com/govt/
    A metasite of links to offices, parliaments, central banks, courts, political parties and other government-related bodies for 215 countries and territories.

    Political Leaders, 1945-2001 -- http://www.terra.es/personal2/monolith/00index.htm
    Politcal leaders listed in several useful categories such as women leaders, current leaders, leaders who met violent deaths and political obituaries. Much of the information is in English, but some is in Spanish.

    United Nations -- http://www.un.org/
    The UN's homepage leads to information about itself and all its member nations.

       
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      Politics
     

    Wisconsin

    American Reform Party of Wisconsin -- http://www.americanreform.org/Wisconsin/

    Democratic Party of Wisconsin -- http://www.wisdems.org

    Libertarian Party of Wisconsin -- http://www.lpwi.org

    Politics1 -- http://www.politics1.com/wi.htm
    Lists of candidates for all state offices with information on how to contact them and links to other political sites in the state and the nation.

    Republican Party of Wisconsin -- http://www.wisgop.org/

    Socialist Party of Wisconsin -- http://www.execpc.com/~spwis/

    Wisconsin Democracy Campaign -- http://www.wisdc.org/
    Records of campaign contributions to Wisconsin legislative and gubernatorial candidates by name (for large donors), by interest group, by size of contribution, and by geographic location of contributors.

    Wisconsin Ethics Board -- http://ethics.state.wi.us/
    Lobbying reports, financial holdings of state officials and standards of conduct

    Wisconsin Green Party -- http://www.excel.net/~pdrewry/wigreen.htm

    Wisconsin Vote -- http://www.wisconsinvote.org/
    Wisconsin election news and information compiled by Wisconsin Public Radio, Wisconsin Public Television,and University of Wisconsin-Extension

    United States

    All Politics -- http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/
    Site maintained by CNN and Time features current news about U.S. politics. Archives can be searched. Public opinion poll results are also included.

    Almanac of American Politics --http://nationaljournal.com/members/almanac/
    Directory of elected United States officials with biographical information, committee assignments, election results, key votes, interest group ratings, and campaign finance data. Also includes demographic profiles of states and Congressional districts. Searchable by name, state, district, and keyword.

    OpenSecrets.org -- http://www.opensecrets.org
    An extensive review of congressional campaign fundraising issues. You can compare candidates by size and source of their contributions, industries and interest groups that are supporting them, where the money is coming from geographically, and more.

    Political Science Resources on the Web -- http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.cneter/polisci.html
    Comprehensive and well organized site compiled by the University of Michigan

    Project Vote Smart -- http://www.vote-smart.org/
    Nonpartisan compilation of information about political candidates and elected officials: biographical information, position papers, voting records, ratings by interest groups. Type in your zip code and address, and you can find your elected representatives at the state and federal levels, their addresses and phone numbers.

    Public Agenda Online -- http://www.publicagenda.org/
    Overview, news digests, background data, polling data, resources for further information, varied perspectives, and analyses of current political issues by a nonpartisan and nonprofit research organization.

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      Taxes
     

    Amortization Table -- http://stage.bankrate.com/sam/popcalc2.asp
    If you know the number of years of your loan, interest rate, and loan amount, you can calculate your monthly payment and amortization schedule at this easy-to-use site.

    1040.com -- http://www.1040.com
    Deloitte and Touche Online -- http://www.dtonline.com
    TaxWeb -- http://www.taxweb.com
    Three high-quality tax advice and planning sites, with links to state forms.

    Electronic Filing of Taxes -- http://www.dor.state.wi.us/eserv/efiling.html
    All you need to know about electronic filing from the State of Wisconsin.

    Federal Tax Forms -- http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/formspubs/lists/0,,id=97817,00.html
    Tax forms, instructions, and publications from 1992 to the present are available at this site. Adobe Acrobat software is needed to view and print forms, and is available for free download from this site.

    Tax Forms for Other States -- http://www.taxadmin.org/fta/forms.ssi
    Links from the Federation of Tax Administrators.

    Wisconsin Tax Forms -- http://www.dor.state.wi.us/html/formpub.html
    Wisconsin tax forms for business and individuals from 1995 through the current year. Adobe Acrobat software is needed to view and print forms, and is available for free download from this site.

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