Needful News is headquartered in Santa Cruz, California. Right now it is a personal project by me, Chris Neklason, local Santa Cruz guy and news and civic information geek. At some point when I hire people to help out with the data entry, Needful News will carry ads to pay the staff and keep the lights on.

The Needful News project is building a database of news and information sources centered around your local community. Active citizenship requires accurate information, so we make it one-click convenient for you to stay current with the news and stay in touch with your elected representatives.

Information displayed by Needful News comes from the following sources:

• Most recent US census
• Weather information comes from the Weather Underground network.
• Information about your elected representative and other useful civic facts come from the Google Civic API project.
• Maps and traffic information are courtesy Google Maps.
• News headlines come from the individual newspapers as Twitter feeds. Note that Twitter has its own privacy policy with regards to how it treats your veiwing of those feeds.
• Links to newspapers, television and radio stations, road conditions and transportation agencies, come from our own databases, using information compiled by Needful News. Our database maintains over 20,000 records of news, media and other information sources, and is growing daily.

Needful News collects only standard web server logs for the purpose of monitoring server performance to better serve you.
Content provided by Twitter in the News Feed is subject to the Twitter privacy policy.

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