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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.

Voter ID Battle Set to Rage Again in 2013
This year promises a flurry of new voter ID legislation across the country as well as reignited court battles in states where the laws were blocked last year and a Supreme Court ruling on part of the Voting Rights Act.
January 14, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Bloomberg on Anti-Gun-Control GOP: Why Can't You Change Them?
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, America’s most prominent and deep-pocketed advocate for gun control, would rather rehabilitate Republicans than oust them.
January 14, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Gov. O'Malley Pushes Tough Gun Laws in Maryland
Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley will seek to institute some of the nation’s strictest gun-licensing requirements, ban assault weapons and restrict visitor access to schools in one of the most expansive government responses sought to last month’s school shooting in Newtown, Conn.
January 14, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
On Illegal Immigrants' Driver's Licenses, North Carolina Reverses Course
After first indicating it would grant driver’s licenses to young illegal immigrants who received deferrals from deportation, the state now says it won't allow them to drive until the agency is legally required to do so. North Carolina joins Arizona, Iowa, Michigan and Nebraska in denying driver’s licenses to deferred action recipients, while other states such as California, Texas and Florida are allowing the licenses.
January 14, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.
Fiorello La Guardia, the former mayor of New York City from 1934 to 1945.
January 11, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
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The maximum number of bills that representatives in the Tennessee House are now allowed to introduce in one year.
January 11, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Wyoming Legislators Seek to Block Federal Gun Restrictions
As the Obama administration prepares to unveil a comprehensive gun control proposal, state Rep. Kendell Kroeker introduced a bill that would block federal restrictions on guns -- any of them.
January 11, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Feds Propose Overhaul for Florida's Treatment of Disabled Children
The proposal by the U.S. Justice Department demands the state stop slicing in-home nursing services for frail youngsters, stop ignoring the requests of family doctors who treat disabled children and stop sending hundreds of children to geriatric nursing homes.
January 11, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Santa Clara Weighing Benefits of Hosting a Super Bowl
Local officials began weighing whether the city can still make money from a Super Bowl after stomaching a new list of financial demands from the NFL.
January 11, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Cloud Computing Taxes at Issue in Idaho and Elsewhere
Fast-changing technology has created gray areas in tax laws across the country. Businesses and lawmakers are sparring over whether commercial use of remote computer software and servers should be taxed.
January 11, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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