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Caroline Cournoyer

Senior Web Editor

Caroline Cournoyer -- Senior Web Editor. Caroline covered federal policy and politics for CongressNow, the former legislative wire service for Roll Call, has written for Education Week's Teacher Magazine, and learned the ins and outs of state and local government while working as an assistant editor at WTOP Radio.

Who Said That
I'd go to jail before I put the state in red ink.
Maine Gov. Paul LePage, in a radio interview, defending his refusal to expand Medicaid even though his state's voters approved a ballot measure last year to do so -- and even though a judge ruled that he had to.
July 13, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
80%
Increase in primary voter turnout among California Democrats from the 2014 midterms to today's. Republican turnout comparatively rose 45 percent in the state. These numbers reflect general trends of Democratic participation climbing more than Republicans'.
July 13, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Michael Tubbs giving a TED x talk
Archive
Silicon Valley Is Helping Cities Test a Radical Anti-Poverty Idea
What if everyone got a paycheck that they didn't work for? It's called universal basic income, and with the help of tech entrepreneurs, Stockton, Calif., is the latest city to test it.
July 13, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Archive
Medicaid Fraud Is Flying Under Insurers' Radar
Despite receiving billions of dollars in taxpayer money, Medicaid insurers are lax in ferreting out fraud and neglect to tell states about unscrupulous medical providers, according to a federal report released Thursday.
July 13, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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World's Biggest Self-Driving Test Track to Open in Ohio
By the end of the year, the Transportation Research Center in East Liberty will open the first portion of what will be world's biggest autonomous vehicle testing facility.
July 13, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Archive
FEMA Admits to Being Understaffed, Uninformed and Unprepared for Puerto Rico Hurricanes
No tarps, no cots, and less than 200 blue roofs.
July 13, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Archive
How Freddie Gray's Death Changed Policing in Baltimore, Now the Deadliest Big City
Just before a wave of violence turned Baltimore into the nation’s deadliest big city, a curious thing happened to its police force: officers suddenly seemed to stop noticing crime.
July 13, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Archive
Video: Arizona Lawmaker Talks Himself Out of Ticket by Claiming "Legislative Immunity" and Telling Cop He Sometimes Drives 140
An elected state House representative for Arizona’s 5th District, Paul Mosley, bragged to a sheriff’s deputy that he drives at speeds of up to 140 miles per hour, claiming legislative immunity.
July 13, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Archive
No Smoking, and Other Controversial Medical Marijuana Rules in Oklahoma
Gov. Mary Fallin has signed emergency rules regulating Oklahoma's medical marijuana industry a day after they were introduced by the State Board of Health.
July 13, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Archive
Drug Companies Sue New York Over New Opioid Tax
A national trade group representing drug distributors is suing New York in an attempt to block a new law that holds its members financially responsible for the havoc wrought by the opioid epidemic.
July 13, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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