Center for Women’s Business Research is a source for information about women business owners and their enterprises worldwide.

BUSINESS DESK RESOURCESS:
Society of American Business Editors and Writers
A new web site sponsored by API
The Knight Center at the University of Maryland has a business page resource.

PollingReport.com pulls together recent public opinion surveys and divides them into easy-to-find categories. These polls are all from reliable sources: The Gallup Organization, the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, media organizations such as The Wall Street Journal, CNN and Newsweek, and various trade organizations.

The Nov/Dec issue of the IRE Journal includes the following articles:
FOI REPORT: With so much data now, story potential abounds on school testing front
Schools Web site provides an education
GUNS: Recycled police weapons find their way to criminals
Government Ethics
TEACHING: Newsrooms use state school data to create index
And the cover story: Digging Deeper at City Hall: Getting beneath the surface of local government

The U.S. Census Bureau's Facts for Features section has a new posting today for the 2004 Presidential Election. There are links for statistical tables on the 2000 election. North Carolina's voter turnout numbers compared to the U.S.: 56.1% v 59.5%

10 Tips on Writing Original Leads from Poynter's News Coach.

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