Maine


Maine State Government
http://www.state.me.us
Recently reorganized, Maine's official home page provides good access to legislative, judicial and executive agency information. Also includes directories, links to town pages, quasi-governmental organizations, and commercial Maine sites.
Maine Statutes & Constitution
http://janus.state.me.us/legis/ros/meconlaw.htm
Recently added to the Maine State legislative website, Maine Statutes and Constitution can be searched by subject or by title number.
Maine Law and Legislative Library
http://www.state.me.us/legis/lawlib/homepage.htm
The library "serves the public interest by providing legal and governmental information services without discrimination to the people of Maine, their government and the legal community." This well organized web site provides links to Maine and U.S. law and legislative materials, information on the library itself, and other useful online legal information
Maine Newspapers
http://www.maine.info/newspaper.html
This web site provides a comprehensive list of current Maine newspapers' web sites with annotations written by the newspapers themselves. For a list of historical Maine newspapers available in print or microform at Bowdoin Library, please see the Newspaper Research Guide at
http://library.bowdoin.edu/rguides/newspapers/
Political Parties
http://www.mainedems.org/
http://www.mainegop.com/
http://www.mainegreens.org/
http://www.lp.org/
Created during the '96 state and national election campaigns, these party web sites continue to offer current information on party views and members.
State Profiles from the Census Bureau
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/index.html
Provides both "quick" statistics and datasets from the 2000 and 1990 censuses, organized around people, business, and geography.
County and City Data Books
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/ccdb/
Offers demographic, economic and social data at the county, city and state level from the 1988, 1994 and 2000 County and City Data Books.