LexWiki:Data Sources

Lexington data sources

 * Town of Lexington Public Records Portal and bylaws
 * A Guide to the Massachusetts Public Records Law
 * Commonwealth of Massachusetts Municipal Records Retention Manual
 * Newspapers
 * wickedlocal.com/lexington, the Lexington Minuteman. Subscribe to the Lexington Minuteman Email Newsletter.
 * colonialtimesmagazine.com, Lexington's Colonial Times Magazine
 * lexington.patch.com, the Lexington Patch
 * The boston.com web site (requires subscription)
 * bostonglobe.com/metro/regionals/west, the Metro West Section of the Boston Globe (requires paid subscription)
 * News aggregation
 * 02420.com. This is a news aggregation site set up by the Lexington Patch, including links to Patch and Minuteman news.
 * TV
 * lexmedia.org, LexMedia
 * Web sites
 * http://www.lexingtonma.gov, the Lexington City web site
 * http://lps.lexingtonma.org, the Lexington Public Schools web site
 * Mirror of the old 2011 Lexington Public Schools web site
 * Assessors Online Database and Registry of Deeds for Lexington, MA
 * Town of Lexington's Geographic Information System
 * Harry Forsdick's http://lexma.weebly.com, a grass roots community web site
 * Mirror of the old http://lexopengov.com web site run by Alan Seferian
 * General mailing lists
 * http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lex-tmma (viewable publicly, only Town Meeting members can post)
 * http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lexington (viewable publicly, only subscribed Lexington residents can post)
 * http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lex-polrel (private, only subscribed Lexington residents can post)

Massachusetts data sources

 * Newspapers and Magazines:
 * The boston.com web site (requires subscription)
 * The Boston Globe (requires paid subscription)
 * The Boston Herald tabloid (requires paid subscription)
 * The CommonWealth Magazine
 * The masslive.com web site, a news and information web site for Western Massachusetts.
 * News aggregation
 * MASSterList, a free daily news aggregate site covering Massachusetts state government every weekday. Subscribe to the Massterlist email newsletter.
 * Foundations and Civic Associations
 * The Beacon Hill Institute
 * The Pioneer Institute
 * The Mass Taxpayer Foundation
 * MassINC
 * Neighboring towns
 * The Cambridge Civics Online Forum

US data sources

 * Newspapers
 * www.washingtonpost.com - The Washington Post (requires subscription)
 * www.nytimes.com - The New York Times (requires paid subscription)
 * wsj.com - The Wall St. Journal (requires paid subscription)
 * News aggregation
 * www.realclearpolitics.com - Real Clear Politics
 * Foundations and civic associations
 * edexcellence.net - the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, dedicated to advancing educational excellence.
 * fas.org - The Federation of American Scientists, and its Secrecy News Blog, published by Steve Aftergood. The blog newsletter is regularly publishing reports from the Congressional Research Service, which cannot be obtained from the CRS web site directly.