Data Sources
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Lexington data sources
- Town of Lexington Public Records Portal[1] and bylaws[2]
- 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[3]
- 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[4]
- http://lps.lexingtonma.org, the Lexington Public Schools web site[5]
- Mirror of the old 2011 Lexington Public Schools web site
- Assessors Online Database, Registry of Deeds, Building Permits 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
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/lextmma (viewable publicly, only Town Meeting members can post). Archive of old Town Meeting mailing list.
- 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)
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lexParents (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 - email newsletter with daily news aggregation covering Massachusetts.
- The Download - email newsletter with daily news aggregation covering Massachusetts.
- Politico Playbook Massachusetts - email newsletter with daily state & US news.
- Foundations and Civic Associations
- Neighboring towns
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.
Notes
- ↑ Note that not all public records are stored as a matter of custom in the Public Records Portal. The easiest way to search through portal content is to use a specialized Google search instead of the Laserfiche search mechanism - i.e. type "site:records.lexingtonma.gov text-to-search..." in the Google search box.
- ↑ Check the date when the bylaws web copy was last updated at the top of the page. The bylaws web copy may be behind by a number of months.
- ↑ Since it was reorganized in Jan 2014, the Lexington Patch has started covering less Lexington-centric and more state-centric news. The web site design of the Patch was changed around 2013-14, and many of the old Patch articles about Lexington have been lost.
- ↑ The old version of the Lexington City web site, http://ci.lexington.ma.us, has operated between 2000 and 2013, and can still be browsed at the Internet Archive Way Back Machine
- ↑ The Lexington Public Schools web site has gone through several older versions: 1998 - 2002 and 2002-2012. Old versions can still be browsed at the Internet Archive Way Back Machine. Mirrors of old versions can also be found on our Web Site Mirrors page.