Already in the planning stages: a 37-km tunnel to channel water from the Benus river in water-rich Pahang state to drought-stricken Selangor state, and a pipe to link the Gombak river in KL to the Wangsa Maju water treatment plant.

CNN: Special Report Drought

Many states including New York expanded sales tax to require merchants to collect taxes if they merely have in-state affiliates they contract with and link to.

FORBES: Court Rules Internet Sales Tax Constitutional So Get Ready To Click And Pay

That has opened the way to restoring the earnings link to the basic state pension, another no-go area for the chancellor, but an indispensable reform if means-testing is to be arrested and saving encouraged.

ECONOMIST: Reforming pensions

The most contentious is a proposed high-speed rail link between the big metropolitan centres of the state.

ECONOMIST: Infrastructure in California

The Conservatives say they would restore the link between state pension and earnings by replacing the New Deal - and so cut the need for means testing.

BBC: NEWS | UK | UK Election 2005 | Pension reform tests are unveiled

But improving these tools has been slow going, largely because the higher-education lobby has fought federal efforts to create a "unit-record" system that could work across state lines to link students' educational and employment histories.

WSJ: Are Bachelor's Degrees Worth It?

Online, Obama's Web site lists early voting locations, while Gov. Mitch Daniels, the state's Republican incumbent, is e-mailing a video link that shows how easy it is to vote early.

CNN: Early voting: Every day is Election Day

Bloomberg justifies his nanny-state interventions by pointing to the social costs of obesity, but there is no direct causal link between obesity and 20-ounce sodas with sugar in them, and neither would it be anyone's business at all except for the increasing government control and subsidies for health care.

CNN: Big Gulp? Meet Big Brother

Juneau, Alaska (CNN) -- Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin moved quickly to link a key figure in a corruption scandal that rocked the state's political establishment to her defeated predecessor, newly released documents show.

CNN: E-mails: Palin moved to tie oil scandal to ousted rival

There is a link between two things: One, the frustrations that regular folks -- middle-class Americans feel about the state of the economy, the need for growth to improve, and certainly the need for job creation to improve.

WHITEHOUSE: The White House