I added some great new tools to the left sidebar this morning.  I thought I’d tell you a little bit about them.

Iowa County & City Map

This clickable map really comes in handy when you’re trying to figure out just WHERE a county is located in Iowa and where the towns are inside that county.  It also has a search feature in the upper right corner – in case you get tired of the “hit and miss” method.

Iowa Congressional District Map

This is an up-to-date, color-coded map of the newest (2002) Iowa Congressional Districts.  If I didn’t know better, I’d think the Texas Legislature had drawn up this map.

Iowa Congressional Scorecard

See how Iowa’s Members of Congress rate.  This is a feature of the Iowa PIRG (Public Interest Research Group) site, and as you might expect, our beloved Senator Tom Harkin scores very high in matters of public interest, whereas our other senator scores near zero.

Locate Your Iowa Legislators

This site has a great search feature.  You just enter your address and up pop your Iowa legislators and your Members of Congress.  This site is current as of February 9, 2004.

Iowa House District Map

This is a color-coded map of the current Iowa House districts.  If you put your pointer over the map, a box will appear in the bottom right corner that you can click on to enlarge the photo.

Iowa Senate District Map

See Iowa House District map above for directions.

Deanlink

Part of the DFA Commons, you can do searches to find registered Dean supporters near you, or anywhere, for that matter.  You enter the center point zip code of your search and you enter a radius, as in number of miles from your center point, and then you search.

You can set up groups to save people you find, and then you can send out emails to the group (maximum 200 per group) or to individuals.  The recipients have to retrieve the messages at the Deanlink site.