Voters can head to Web for Capitol info

State voters can now plug into the Web for insights into the operations of the Legislature through a new site established via an unusual collaboration between the California Voter Foundation and UC Davis.The Internet Guide to California's Legislature, found at http://www.calvoter.org, is the first product of a new partnership between CVF and UC Davis' political science department and its SunTREC laboratory. A team of three student interns worked with CVF and UC Davis professor Geoffrey Wandesforde-Smith to produce the guide. The partnership will continue this fall, when Wandesforde-Smith will teach a course on California government. "This partnership is an ideal opportunity for UC Davis students to learn directly about the policy process, while at the same time authoring Web pages that will greatly aid and benefit the people of California," said Wandesforde-Smith. Some of the resources available through the new site include rosters of the Assembly and Senate members, tips on how to be an effective citizen lobbyist and how to work with the news media, a glossary of legislative terms, and the 1997-98 Legislative calendar.