Frequently Asked Questions

In the past year, Capitol Alert's in-depth and ongoing political news and information have become a valuable daily resource for many political professionals. During this time, we received many requests to make Capitol Alert available for free. Now, in response to the rapidly changing online world, we are moving to open the site for advertising and will offer its content to a broader audience without a subscription fee. The new model debuts Monday, Nov. 5.

Capitol Alert users will still have access to all of the blogs, exclusive Field Poll crosstabs, Congressional Quarterly's California Political Almanac and video from Capitol Television News Service. We've added a new feature to our California Clips section - hourly updates of political news, columns and blogs from across the state. We are eliminating our Early Edition section, but will still provide advance e-mail notice of stories coming in the next day's Sacramento Bee.

Enhancements are currently being made to the site, including updated navigation and the availability of advertising positions. Additional improvements will be implemented in the spring of 2008, including the ability to comment on stories and postings and a refreshed look and feel.

The information presented in Capitol Alert goes above and beyond the information found at sacbee.com. It is updated Monday - Friday (excluding holidays). It includes e-mail updates delivered by 6 AM and 8 PM every weekday. Key Capitol Alert features include:

• Exclusive Field Poll crosstabs, access to Congressional Quarterly's California Political Almanac, and video from Capitol Television News Service
• Early morning summary of the day's biggest issues and events
• Blogs by Bee columnists
• Email alerts as news happens throughout the day, plus updated content on the site
• Early announcements of stories coming in the next day's Sacramento Bee
• Hourly updated roundup of political news clips, columns and blogs

As a subscriber, you are entitled to a pro-rated refund, effective from Nov. 4, 2007, for your paid annual subscription. A check for the amount due to you will automatically be sent by Dec. 7, 2007. No action is required on your part. However, if you would like to confirm or update any account information for the refund, please email support by Nov. 9, 2007. This will help ensure your refund gets to you as quickly and easily as possible.

Please contact support.

Simply complete our brief registration form. If you are a paid or trial subscriber as of Nov. 4, 2007, no action is required on your part to continue receiving Capitol Alert.

The registration process is very brief. Email addresses are needed in order to send the news summaries and breaking news alerts. Additionally, knowing who is accessing Capitol Alert, we can continue to provide the most relevant content for the users of the site. Emails or names will not be sold to third parties. Additional information on The Sacramento Bee's privacy policy is available here.

All registered users at Capitol Alert will automatically receive breaking news email alerts. You can easily subscribe or unsubscribe from your profile page.

Simply follow the Manage Subscriptions / Unsubscribe link on the bottom of the breaking news email alert and uncheck the "Yes, I'd like to receive the "AM/PM" and "Breaking News" alerts via e-mail" box. If you wish to resume email service, click the Manage Subscriptions / Unsubscribe link and check the box.

Capitol Alert provides RSS feeds of current headlines and briefs. To view the provided feeds, you will need to install a news reader or subscribe to an online aggregator. You may publish the feed on your non-commercial Web site or Weblog as long as you tell your readers that these headlines are coming from Capitol Alert. Please be advised, registration is required to view entire articles.

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