EZGOV.COM LAUNCHES BIG GOVT. PORTAL; KEMP, CUOMO JOIN BOARD OF DIRECTORS.ezgov.com launched an online portal last week that is the first to provide citizens in every state with a direct online link to their federal, state, and local governments. Citizens and businesses across the country can pay parking and traffic tickets, buy stamps, view and pay property taxes, renew automobile tags, and search property deeds with a simple click of a mouse. The site also provides a wealth of government-related information in a user-friendly format. At the site, users can: * Enter their zip code zip code System of postal-zone codes (zip stands for “zone improvement plan”) introduced in the U.S. in 1963 to improve mail delivery and exploit electronic reading and sorting capabilities. and receive instant access to a variety of information about their federal, state, and local legislators, including backgrounds, voting records and e-mail addresses. * Find tips on how to write letters to legislators, conduct one-on-one meetings and start grassroots campaigns to gain attention on public policy issues important to them. * Perform a common language search of all top government-related sites on the Web. * Access the state and local online government services available in their area. * Link to their state government Web sites. * Access up-to-the-minute national news through CNN CNN or Cable News Network Subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting Systems. It was created by Ted Turner in 1980 to present 24-hour live news broadcasts, using satellites to transmit reports from news bureaus around the world. and the Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. . * Participate in online polls on "hot" issues of the day. * Find candidate bios, polling information, and links to candidate Web sites. * Receive answers to federal budget and tax questions and access federal and state income tax forms. "Today, we have put government at the fingertips "Fingertips" is a 1963 number-one hit single recorded live by "Little" Stevie Wonder for Motown's Tamla label. Wonder's first hit single, "Fingertips" was the first live, non-studio recording to reach number-one on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in the United States. of every United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. citizen," says ezgov.com co-founder Bryan Mundy. "Elusive government information and burdensome, time-consuming government transactions are now as easy as turning on your computer. Unlike other government- related Web sites, ezgov.com does more than put governments online -- we bring government to the people." In unveiling the new portal, founders Mundy and Ed Trimble also announced the addition of former Congressman and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Jack Kemp  The neutrality and factual accuracy of this article are disputed.Please see the relevant discussion on the . and former New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Governor Mario Cuomo to ezgov.com's Board of Directors. The addition of Kemp and Cuomo round out a team that includes former Georgia Governor Zell Miller, United Negro College Fund The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) is a Fairfax, Virginia-based American philanthropic organization that fundraises college tuition money for African-American students and general scholarship funds for 39 historically black colleges and universities. President William Gray, former Dun and Bradstreet Software Chairman John Imlay, and Elaine Kamarck, executive director of the Kennedy School of Government's Visions Project, and former manager of Vice President Gore's Reinventing Government initiative. To accelerate the roll-out, ezgov.com partnered with Portland-based Columbia Ultimate to jointly market and sell Web-enabled revenue collection systems to government agencies. "Our partnership with Columbia Ultimate typifies our strategy to form alliances with outstanding organizations who can help us to deliver on the promise of electronic government," says Trimble. n |
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