States are accentuating the positive to protect children.

Half the people in Tennessee's motor vehicle offices don't need to be there. They could be getting their services online. Tennessee learned this by getting research assistance from its native logistics expert: Federal Express.

Breakthrough waivers for Vermont and Arkansas

A new state-backed service, Florida Compare Care, is bringing consumers and health care providers a new way to assess health care. The health statistics Web site, which went live this past November, lists prices for pharmaceutical and surgical procedures at Florida's hospitals and rates outcomes of common procedures performed there. The site, the first of its kind in the nation, will also include physician and health plan information.

Online profiles of politicians have become battlegrounds for both spin doctors and mischief makers.