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Related Links: State and Local Government
 
http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/U_S__Government
An excellent site, which gives you links to information about most of the fifty states.

http://www.piperinfo.com
Piper Resources provides information on state and local government.

http://www.house.gov
If you want the email address or home page for your state’s representative(s) in Congress visit the homepage for the House of Representatives.

http://www.senate.gov
For email addresses and home pages for your state’s senators in the US Senate, go to the Senate homepage.

http://www.leg.wa.gov/wsladm/default.htm
The state of Washington has created a site to allow citizens to access legislative information on the current session of its state legislature and how to contact Washington state officials.

http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/state.html
Learn about state law codes (statutes) and state court cases.

http://www.vote-smart.org/reference/primer
Information on state governments, including their constitutional powers, education, and finances.

http://www.statesnews.org
States News is another excellent source for information on state governments.

http://www.statesnews.org/publications/bos.html
You can access the Book of the States, a biennial publication of the Council of State Governments from this site.

http://www.nga.org
The National Governors Association offers a wide variety of information on issues and data relating to state governments.

http://www.census.gov/datamap/www/index.html
You can find a wealth of data on state and local governments at the "Map Stats" site of the U.S. Census Bureau by simply clicking on states and counties on the maps.