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50
best financial websites, identified by Money Magazine.as
the "leading sites in every major personal-finance category."
To be included in this list, a "site's best features had
to be free of monthly or annual subscription fees." You
can download all the URLs to your bookmarks, if you choose. Money
Magazine. provides access to full text of its articles from
July 1986 to present. Can search archives by keywords or author. |
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Fortune
Magazine: Selected highlights, including the cover story
and technology features, from the two most recent magazine issues
are available. All Web-only features, such as Street Life, the
Career Resource Center and the FORTUNE 500, are free. For articles
from 1995 to the present searching and reading article summaries
is free. Viewing a complete article costs $2.95. |
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CEO
Express: "designed by a busy executive for a busy executive."
Many great links in categories of Daily News & Info, Business
Research, Office Tools & Travel, Breaktime. |
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Morningstar.
Listed in Money's 50 best financial websites as a "must-have
bookmark for every fund investor." Basic access to their
Portfolio Manager, Portfolio X-Rays, Conversations, and Informational
Email is available FREE. Advanced Premuim membership costs $9.95
a month. |
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Researching
Companies Online: a tutorial for finding free company and
industry information on the web. |
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Superstar
Investor: a directory with more than 7500 links to the best
investing sites. Provides access to business & financial
news, online broker ratings, technical analysis, portfolio tracking,
news & newspapers, annual reports & EDGAR filings, and
other investment-related topics. |
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The
Motley Fool: investing advice with an attitude and sense
of humor. |
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Bloomberg
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SmartMoney Magazine.
Recommended by Honorine Wallack, Certified Financial Planner
and speaker at the 1999 Mid-York Staff Development day workshop,
this web version of the Wall Street Journal Magazine of Personal
Business includes updates of the day's market, tracking of
personal stocks, a personal investment & financial planning
section, the latest news, and much more. |
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The New York Stock Exchange.
Current information and a great description of the stock exchange
and its history. |
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EDGAR Database
for Corporate Information. The Securites and Exchange Commission's
database of SEC filings plus useful online publications and notifications
for investors. |
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Thomas Register.
Requires free registration but offers much of the same information
that the unwieldly print editions provide. |
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Consumer.gov. Your
resource for consumer information from the federal government,
which includes how to file a complaint, consumer issues "In
the Spotlight," Special Projects and covers such subject
areas as food, product safety, health, home & community,
transportation, children, careers & education, and technology. |
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ConsumerWorld.
"A public service, non-commercial guide cataloging over
1800 of the most useful consumer resources" and provides
much in the way of one-stop searching for consumer information. |
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Edmunds.com. Everything
you always wanted to know about buying new & used cars and
trucks -- pricing, reviews, information on incentives & rebates,
developments in the automotive world, road tests, and more. |
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Cornell Cooperative Extension |
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Kelley Blue Book |
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CollegeNET. Excellent
site. Provides information on colleges, scholarships, list of
schools with special features, and more. |
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College
Choice Website. A non-profit information service which describes
the process and points to different resources useful in finding
a college. Geared to high school students. |
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College Board
Online. Here you can register for the SAT online; get the
schedule and calendar of test administration; apply for colleges
online; and much more. There are sections for parents, students,
teachers, counselors. Site available in English or Spanish. |
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Princeton
Reviews's personalized "college search, selection and
application tool." Check out their "Best 331 Colleges." |
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Education Week on the
Web. National full text newspaper focusing on K - 12 education.
Archives, teacher magazine, special reports. |
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Peterson's. Online
version of Peterson's many and well-respected publications. Includes
the ability to search for colleges at both the graduate and undergraduate
levels and also includes job-hunting information, distance learning
courses, private schools, and study abroad programs. |
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AskERIC. Sponsored
by the US Department of Education, Syracuse University, and Sun
Microsystems, AskERIC is "a personalized Internet-based
service providing education information to teachers, librarians,
counselors, administrators, parents, and others throughout the
United States and the world." |
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Aisle
Say: the internet magazine of stage reviews & opinion. |
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All-Movie
Guide |
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Playbill
Online: THE theatre source on the web for Broadway theatre. |
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Internet Movie Database. A
great place to look up information on movies & the people
involved in making them, plus special features, movie of the
day, news headlines, celebrity birthdays, trivia, and more. |
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CNN Showbiz and ABC
News' Mr Showbiz both
provide entertainment news and more. |
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Premiere
Online: the interactive movie magazine. |
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E! online. "Colorful,
daily dose of Hollywood delivered in a fun, hip, irreverent tone."
Provides original entertainment news, celebrity gossip, games,
reviews, and much more. Intended for movie, tv, and music enthusiasts. |
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Variety |
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FedWorld Information
Network: integrated network offering the public broad access
to federal information. |
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US Federal
Government Agencies Directory: Developed by Louisiana State
University, this site divides the agencies into their respective
branches of government and provides links to each agency's web
page. Also includes links to "quasi-government" agencies.
A great site to bookmark. |
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THOMAS: Legislative Information
on the Internet. Sponsored by Congress. The premier site
for locating legislative and congressional information. Provides
access to the Congressional Record for recent years, bill &
law summaries & status, floor activities, historical documents,
public laws, other congressional websites, and a host of other
resources. |
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U. S. Census Bureau:
Provides access to primarly statistical census information as
well as information about the 2000 census.Does NOT include individual
census records which many people are seeking for genealogical
research. |
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U. S.
Business Advisor. Information on government contracts, "How-to"
section, and more. Its stated goal is to "provide business
with one-stop access to federal government information, services,
and transactions." |
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Federal Election Commission.
Information about the FEC, the federal election financing rules
agency. |
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GPO Access: NYS Library
Gateway. Congressional bills, federal regulations, current &
pending. |
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Internal Revenue
Service. The agency everyone loves to hate and the site that
everyone hates to love -- but they do love it anyway! Gives you
IRS forms & instructions, electronic filing, help with your
tax questions. All done with a sense of humor. |
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Links2Law:
a comprehensive directory of law-related websites created by
the Middletown Thrall Library. Areas covered include United States
& Federal, NY State & Local Laws, Law by Topic, International
& Foreign Law, and Law Enforcement. |
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FindLaw: an extensive
law directory. Cases & codes, legal news, LawCrawler, law
schools, law firms & lawyers, fulltext library of over 14,000
publications. Great starting place. |
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New York State
Assembly Legislative Information System |
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Thomas: Legislative Infomation
on the Web. Federal legislative information: bills, laws,
votes, the Congressional Record, Committee reports and websites. |
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Project
Vote Smart: New York Legislature. Links to State Legislature
, State Senate, and State Assembly home pages. Also includes
ZIP-code search which identifies your district if you don't know
it. Be sure to visit their home
page which "tracks performance of over 13,000 political
leaders: President, Congress, Governors, and State Legislators.
A great citizen's tool.
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Legal
Information Institute at Cornell Law School. Its aims are
"to connect the full resources of the school with the legal
profession, with other law schools, with the world; to carry
out applied research on the use of digital information technology
in the distribution of legal information, the delivery of legal
education, and the practice of law ; and to carry out these activities
in partnership with but not under the control or direction of
such other key actors as law firms, bar associations, public
law making and applying bodies, commercial publishers, and other
academic institutions." |
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New
York Newspapers . Links to many daily, limited, business,
non-daily, special, alternative, and promotional New York papers.
Gathered by American Journalism Review. |
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Media Links.
Editor & Publisher's online media directory. Browse newspapers
-- US, Canadian, worldwide -- by regional map. Browse by media
category -- magazines, newspapers, city guides, radio, tv --
and by geographical region or state. |
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CNN; MSNBC;
Fox News. 24 hour tv news
channels. |
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WUTR: News Channel 20; News Channel 2 WKTV;
WIBX950 am. |
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Yahoo News |
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Drudge Report. Matt Drudge,
online reporter turned tv personality. Here's his site, his stories,
and his many news links. Check it out. |
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News
Sources from Needle in a Cyberstack. |
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