Initiatives to Web-enable the basic services of government are by no means the most significant Internet-driven changes.

In response to rapidly growing Hispanic populations, law enforcement agencies across the country are working to bring an understanding of the Spanish language to their personnel.

The pressure is on Wisconsin localities to work together. Governor Scott McCallum has endorsed a major recommendation in a report commissioned by former Governor Tommy Thompson that was supposed to come up with "radical and bold" ideas for Wisconsin government.

In 1999, when severe drought struck central Kentucky, localities realized they needed a way to move available water resources across and around a six-county region.

State plans to improve crumbling roads are usually greeted with cheers in counties. Not so in Michigan, where a number of local officials object to the method for funding Build Michigan III.