Alliant Energy - Rates, rules and regulations, and types of service. Click on Popular Pages and then Tariffs for the rates for each state served by Alliant Energy.
Consumer Information Center - Your one-stop-shopping site for dozens of links to federal agencies, consumer resources, and lots more. Plus, you can view complete text editions of 200 of the best government consumer publications.
Consumer Price Index (CPI) Inflation Conversion Factors - Tracks and graphs historical trends of price levels, movie prices, government spending, debt and deficits, election costs, minimum wages, and more. Also links to Dollar Conversion Calculator which converts any figure from 1800-1998 to recent year dollars.
Consumer World - More than 1,500 of the most useful consumer resources on the Internet.
Consumer's Resource Handbook - Tips and advice on variety of topics, from car repair to home financing. From U.S. Government Consumer Information Center.
Edmund's Automobile Buyer's Guides - Compare car and truck values, results of road tests, reviews.
Kelley's Blue Book Official Guide -- Trading in your old car? Looking to buy a new or used car? Check here first.
NADA Used Vehicle Values and Appraisal Guides - Price information for used cars, trucks, boats, recreational vehicles, etc.

AnyWho's Reverse Lookup - A reverse directory: Enter the phone number and the results tell you who it belongs to.
AT&T Toll-Free Directory - Thousands of toll-free 800-numbers.
SuperPages - All-around guide for locating businesses.
Infospace - Includes more than 25 directories, including a useful guide to officials and agencies in federal, state, and local government.
Liszt - A directory of 24,000 e-mail discussion groups.
Switchboard - A nationwide directory of residence and business telephone numbers.
ObitFinder - Recent obituaries from more than 1,000 newspapers.
WhitePages.com - Telephone directory for U.S. and Canadian individuals and businesses. Also includes reverse directories for telephone numbers and for street addresses, and direct and reverse directories for area and ZIP codes. "A variety of sources are used to provide the most accurate search results available for publicly available contact information in the United States and Canada.
ZIP Code Lookup and Address Information

MAPS:
Google Maps
MapQuest - Features Tripquest, which calculates mileage and travel routes between cities in the U.S. and parts of Canada and Mexico.
Wisconsin County Maps
Yahoo Maps

Choices in Dying - Advance directives, counseling and educational information on end-of-life issues. Downloads for living will and medical power of attorney.
LawCrawler - An innovative research tool with extensive resources on various practice areas, state, federal, foreign and international law, law journals, legal forms, law schools, law reviews, and more.
FindLaw, a Thomson Reuters business, is the world's leading provider of online legal information and Internet marketing solutions for law firms. FindLaw's roots go back to 1995, when two attorneys compiled a list of Internet resources for a group of law librarians in northern California. The response to the material was so positive they decided to post the information on the Internet.
Wisconsin Supreme Court - Also includes an excellent link to the United States Supreme Court.
Wisconsin Law Library - Legal Issues A-Z
Supreme Court of the United States

Access America for Seniors - Look here for an estimate of your Social Security benefits, compare Medicare options, track packages, locate agencies, etc.
Agripedia - Agripedia is an Internet Accessible Interactive Multimedia Instructional Resource, developed by the University of Kentucky's College of Agriculture created with a USDA Higher Education Program Grant.
All Things Automotive - A directory of links to more than 3,000 sites related to cars.
American Sign Language Browser - QuickTime clips are used to demonstrate the signs for various words in this site from Michigan State University.
Audubon's Birds of America - An online version of the original Birds of America by John James Audubon. Includes color plates and bird calls.
CarTalk - Mechanic brothers Tom and Ray Magliozzi, featured on the NPR radio program "Car Talk," answer every car question under the sun, and they do it with humor.
Charity Reports - The Better Business Bureau presents this Index of Philanthropic Advisory Service Reports on charities and other soliciting organizations. Provides administrative details, including CEO salaries, financial statements, and fundraising expenses, for hundreds of charities.
E-How - Step-by-step instructions through 14 subject areas to thousands of projects.
The Foundation Center - Answers to questions about foundations, non-profit resources, and corporate giving.
Grants Information Center - Based at UW, links users to print and electronic sources of private and corporate foundations, federal funding agencies, etc.
Poets' Corner - The goal of this ongoing project is to develop a user-friendly library that is both a useful reference and an appealing place to browse and explore - and there is a lot here to explore. The collection covers nearly 7,000 works by almost 800 poets - ranging from some of the best known works in the English language to works that were never widely known or whose popularity has been obscured by time.
Repositories of Primary Sources - A listing of over 5000 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar. All links have been tested for correctness and appropriateness.
This to That - Need to glue something to something else? This site features a drop-down list where you choose which two materials you'd like to join and it recommends the product for doing so.
USDA Agriculture Fact Book - A variety of facts, figures, charts and tables on U.S. agriculture, nutrition, consumers, and trade.


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Wisconsin.gov - The State of Wisconsin's portal site, with links to government and agency sites. Search by topic.
Beloit League of Women Voters - The League of Women Voters is a nonpartisan political organization encouraging the informed and active participation of citizens in government. It influences public policy through education and advocacy. Find information about area elections, how to register as a voter and more.  You can also find out about the League of Women Voters and how to join.
Janesville League of Women Voters - Look here for contact information for local school board and city council members, as well as links to state and national representatives. Also information on who can vote, how to register, voting by absentee ballot, Janesville polling places, the Wisconsin election calendar, and much more.
Wisconsin Court System - Official location for release of Supreme Court and Court of Appeals opinions.
Wisconsin Demographic Services Center - Wisconsin population trends, including 1990 census and 1996 estimates, general profile and business patterns for each county.
Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
Wisconsin Ethics Board - Look here to find the names of lobbyists, the groups for which they work and the bills on which they are working.
Wisconsin State Legislature - Bill tracking, legislative information
Wisconsin State Statutes

United States

The White House - Send greetings to the president, tour the gardens, or access Executive Branch publications, press releases, and databases.
US House of Representatives
US Senate
Supreme Court of the United States

Census Bureau - The official statistics from the 2000 United States Census.
Congressional Quarterly VoteWatch - Your report card to action on Capitol Hill. Get insider access to Congress and your representatives' voting records.
The Embassy Page - ProjectVisa.com. This site aims to keep you up to date with visa and embassy information for all countries.
Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy - Need statistics? We got 'em. This site offers statistics of interest to the public from more than 70 agencies in the United States government.
FedWorld Information Network - A one-stop source for U.S. government information.
Government Information Exchange - Links users to state and local government web sites, federal agencies, personnel locatiors, international organizations and electronic shopping networks.  This service is provided by the Federal Citizen Information Center of the U.S. General Services Administration
GPO Access - The Congressional Record, the Federal Register, congressional bills, and a growing list of government documents.
KidsCount Data Online - Provides state-by-state data measuring the educational, social, economic, and physical well-being of children. A project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
Library of Congress - Search access to the Library of Congress catalog, digitized documents of American cultural and historical significance, a guide to the U.S. Copyright office, and an expansive database of current legislative information.
Most Popular Government Websites - from Old Dominion University Libraries,Norfolk, VA
NASA Homepage - A gateway to the largest repository of space-related information on the Internet.
POTUS: Presidents of the United States - Information on Presidents and candidates, cabinet members, election results, administration highlights, and presidential trivia. Also links to historical documents, inaugural addresses, biographies, First Ladies, and more.
Federal Election Commission - In 1975, Congress created the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to administer and enforce the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) - the statute that governs the financing of federal elections. The duties of the FEC, which is an independent regulatory agency, are to disclose campaign finance information, to enforce the provisions of the law such as the limits and prohibitions on contributions, and to oversee the public funding of Presidential elections.
THOMAS - Legislative information and a link to the Library of Congress
Trends in the Well-Being of America's Children and Youth - Annual report from the Department of Health and Human Services. The most current (1998) estimates of more than 90 indicators.
Project VoteSmart Web - Substantial and comprehensive information about political candidates and government resources. Sponsored by Project VoteSmart, a project of the Center for National Independence in Politics.