Cookeville and the Upper Cumberland Region of Tennessee

• Tennessee Upper Cumberland History (Calvin Dickinson, Ph.D.)
• areaConnect: Cookeville, Tennessee: Yellow Pages, Web Search and Directory Information
• National Priorities Project: Better Choices, Better Communities
• Statistical Resources on the Web (University of Michigan Documents Center)
• GovEngine.com: the Premiere Federal, State, & Local Government Site on the Internet
• 2007 Development Report Card for the States (Corporation for Enterprise Development)
• Grading the States 2005 (Government Performance Project)
• Assets and Opportunity Scorecard, 2005 (CFED)
• Tennessee state ranking in 2005 Assets and Opportunity Scorecard (CFED)
• The Real Budget Deficit: A Call to Invest in Tennessee, Its Communities, and Its People, October 2006
  (Tennesseans for Fair Taxation and Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy)
• Education issue brief for Tennessee, 2005 (Assets and Opportunity Scorecard, 2005, CFED)
• State Education Reforms (Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education)
• City of Cookeville, Tennessee (official site)
• Putnam County, TN QuickFacts (U.S. Census Bureau)
• Summary Statistics by 2002 NAICS Cookeville, TN Micropolitan Statistical Area, 2002 Economic Census (U.S. Census Bureau)
• Putnam County, Tennessee (official site)
• Putnam County, Tennessee (information from History and Geneaology section of Tennessee State Library and Archives)
• Bibliography of Tennessee Local History Sources: Putnam County (Tennessee State Library and Archives)
• Cookeville, TN Information (Citizens Communications)
• Tennessee Community Colleges
  (Community College Review: Community and Junior Colleges)
• Tennessee Tech University Calendar [of events]
• How to Succeed as a Student (K. Bucknall)
• Resident Assistant.com: The Rx for RA's
• Counseling Center (Tennessee Technological University)
• Counseling Center Workshops, TTU
• Better Business Bureau of Middle Tennessee
• Upper Cumberland Business Journal
• Cookeville Drama Center
• Cookeville-Putnam County Emergency Management Agency
• Putnam County (National Association of Counties)
• Tennessee (State and Local Government on the Internet)
• 2002 State New Economy Index (Progressive Policy Institute)
• Cookeville Herald-Citizen newspaper
• Click here to contact Cookeville Herald-Citizen newspaper
• Herald Citizen: Celebrating 100 Years
• The [Nashville] City Paper
• Nashville Digest
• Nashville Scene
• Knoxville News-Sentinel
• Tennessee Driver License Renewal
• U.S. States and Territories (Law Library of Congress)
• Grading the States 2005 (Government Performance Project)
• 2007 Development Report Card for the States (Corporation for Enterprise Development)
• State Tax Systems Are Becoming Increasingly Inequitable
  (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
• Despite Past Boom Times, Income Gaps Have Widened in 45 States Over the Past Twenty Years (Center for Budget and Policy Priorities)
• The Way We Tax (Government Performance Project, Governing.com)
• Income Inequality Has Increased in Tennessee Since the 1970s
  (Pulling Apart: A State-by-State Analysis of Income Trends, April 2002, Economic Policy Institute/Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
• Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States, second edition, January 2003
  (Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy)
• Tennessee (The Way We Tax, Government Performance Project, Governing.com)
• Tennessee Taxes Hit Poor and Middle Class Far Harder Than the Wealthy, January 2003
  (Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy)
• Lewis J. Laska, "A History of Personal Income Taxation in Tennessee," Tennessee Historical Quarterly 60 (Winter 2001): 220-243.
• Tennessee State Budget: Information, Issues, Problems, and Solutions
• Tennessee Registry of Election Finance (official state of Tennessee site)
• Tennessee Division of Budget (official state site)
• Tennessee Tax Structure Study Commission (official site)
• [Tennessee State Budget] Fact Book, 2004-2005 (Tennessee General Assembly)
  (*.pdf format requires Adobe Acrobat reader)
• 2004-05 [Tennessee State] Budget Summary (Tennessee General Assembly)
• Working in Tennessee (Official State of Tennessee site)
• Upper Cumberland Career Center: Where People and Jobs Connect
• The Big Payoff: Educational Attaintment and Synthetic Estimates of Work-Life Earnings
  July 2002, U.S Census Bureau Special Report
• State Education Reforms (Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education)
• Measuring Up 2000: The State-By-State Report Card for Higher Education
  (National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education)
• Southern Regional Education Board
• Fact Book on Higher Education 2001
  (Southern Regional Education Board)
• Tennessee Featured Facts
  (SREB Fact Book on Higher Education)
  [.pdf format requires Adobe Acorbat Reader]
• Faculty Salaries in Colleges and Universities:
  Where Do SREB States Stand?
  (Southern Regional Education Board)
• Tennessee State Budget: Information, Issues, Problems, and Solutions
• National Priorities Project: Better Choices, Better Communities
• [Tennessee State Budget] Fact Book, 2004-2005 (Tennessee General Assembly)
  (*.pdf format requires Adobe Acrobat reader)
• 2004-05 [Tennessee State] Budget Summary (Tennessee General Assembly)
• School District Demographics (National Center for Education Statistics)
• Education in Tennessee (Official State of Tennessee site)
• Statistics and Reports (Tennessee Department of Education)
• Report Card 2000 (Tennessee Department of Education)
• American School Directory
• Putnam County, Tennessee Schools (American School Directory)
• Putnam County Schools (Official Putnam County School Board site)
• Tennessee Education Association
• WCTE-TV (PBS station in Cookeville, TN)
• Better Business Bureau of Middle Tennessee
• Cookeville, Tennessee (official city government site)
• Putnam County, Tennessee (official county government site)
• Putnam County, [Tennessee] Schools (official site)
• Cookeville.com (Cookeville, Tennessee's Home Page)
• Cumberland Microcomputer Users' Group (CMUG)
• Putnam County Library
• Putnam County, Tennessee (information from History and Geneaology section of Tennessee State Library and Archives)
• Bibliography of Tennessee Local History Sources: Putnam County (Tennessee State Library and Archives)
• Upper Cumberland Development District
• Upper Cumberland Regional Library
• Cookeville Regional Medical Center
• Humane Society of Putnam County
• Roaring River Chapter Save Our Cumberland Mountains
• Upper Cumberland Business Journal
• Upper Cumberland Business Directory
• Highlands of Tennessee (Cookeville/Putnam County Chamber of Commerce)
• fentressco.com
• Jackson County, TN Government
• CitySearch Nashville

County, State, or Tennessee Information

• Internet Tutorials (University of Albany Libraries)
• Statistical Resources on the Web (University of Michigan Documents Center)
• National Priorities Project: Better Choices, Better Communities
• The Pew Center for the States
• Government Guide: Government Services Made Easy
• International City/County Management Association
• National Association of Counties
• County and City Data Books, 1988 & 1994 (Library of Virginia)
• 2007 Development Report Card for the States (Corporation for Enterprise Development)
• State Tax Systems Are Becoming Increasingly Inequitable
  (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
• Despite Past Boom Times, Income Gaps Have Widened in 45 States Over the Past Twenty Years (Center for Budget and Policy Priorities)
• Income Inequality Has Increased in Tennessee Since the 1970s
  (Pulling Apart: A State-by-State Analysis of Income Trends, April 2002, Economic Policy Institute/Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
• The Real Budget Deficit: A Call to Invest in Tennessee, Its Communities, and Its People, October 2006
  (Tennesseans for Fair Taxation and Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy)
• Lewis J. Laska, "A History of Personal Income Taxation in Tennessee," Tennessee Historical Quarterly 60 (Winter 2001): 220-243.
• State Government Finance Data, by State (U.S. Census Bureau)
• Tennessee Registry of Election Finance (official state of Tennessee site)
• State Tax Collection Data by State (U.S. Census Bureau)
• [Tennessee State Budget] Fact Book, 2004-2005 (Tennessee General Assembly)
  (*.pdf format requires Adobe Acrobat reader)
• 2004-05 [Tennessee State] Budget Summary (Tennessee General Assembly)
• Tennessee Driver License Renewal
• Tennessee Blue Book (Tennessee Secretary of State's Office)
• State Education Reforms (Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education)
• Tennessee Teacher Employment Resource (Tennessee Department of Education
• Statistics and Reports (Tennessee Department of Education)
• Report Card 2000 (Tennessee Department of Education)
• Tennessee Higher Education and State Government Sites
• Tennessee Community Colleges
  (Community College Review: Community and Junior Colleges)
• Tennessee State Parks (TN. Department of Environment and Conservation)

Last updated November 3, 2008

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