The Providence Journal and projo.com offer news and analysis of politics and government, but junkies may want more.

A good place to start is ABC’s The Note, daily briefings prepared by the network’s political unit. Look for it under Politics on www.abcnews.com. Like many sites listed here, The Note includes links to top news stories around the country and you can sign up for e-mail updates.

Glance at NBC’s First Read under Politics on www.msnbc.com and CBS’ Horserace at www.cbsnews.com.

Maybe even more useful: The Politico ( www.politico.com).

Also, RealClearPolitics ( www.realclearpolitics.com). In addition to story links, it excels in providing a compendium of polls and speech texts. Two more poll sites: www.fivethirtyeight.com and www.pollingreport.com.

And go to www.time.com and click onto The Page by Mark Halperin. You may see him on TV more than any other pundit, and The Page gives you that feeling of being on the inside.

You might also want to check out Talking Points Memo at www.talkingpointsmemo.com.

For a look at the electoral process, issues, and candidates: C-SPAN’s Road to the White House broadcasts on Sundays at 6:30 p.m. (also 9:30).

Sample the British Parliament (Prime Minister’s Questions) on C-SPAN2, Wednesdays, 7 a.m. (Re-airs on C-SPAN, Sundays, 9 p.m.) Resumes Oct. 8.

Back to the Web:

Glimpse presidential TV ads back to Dwight Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson in 1952. Click onto www.movingimage.us (run by the Museum of the Moving Image). Under WEB PROJECTS, look for “The Living Room Candidate.” (Incidentally, Stevenson said in 1956, “The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal is the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.” Hmm.)

For analyses of campaign ads and other political disputes, see www.factcheck.org from the University of Pennsylvania.

At www.cjrdaily.org, you can read Columbia Journalism Review critiques of government and political coverage.

Rhode Island political news/views with a liberal accent: www.rifuture.org. Conservatives would feel better with www.anchorrising.com.

Another useful local site: www.thephoenix.com/notfornothing.

For e-mail updates on coming Republican events, e-mail davetalan@aol.com.

In politics, it’s always smart to follow the money. Go to the Rhode Island Board of Elections’ www.ricampaignfinance.com.

At www.ri.gov, you can take care of several services, such as renewing your car registration. The site also may help you with federal and local government.

Here are some state agencies you can reach through the site, or you can go directly to their individual addresses:

The Ethics Commission: www.ethics.ri.gov

The General Assembly: www.rilin.state.ri.us (Among its features: bill-tracking).

The judicial system: www.courts.ri.gov

The governor’s office:

www.governor.ri.gov

And here’s how to plug into members of Congress:

www.reed.senate.gov

www.whitehouse.senate.gov

www.patrickkennedy.house.gov

www.house.gov/langevin

Bonus: Political junkies are news media junkies. Click onto The Poynter Institute’s site — www.poynter.org — and look for Romensko, a roundup of items about the press. It’s fascinating.

M. Charles Bakst is The Journal’s political columnist.

mbakst@projo.com