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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.

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Year that a new ban on California cities passing soda taxes expires. The state is home to the nation's first soda tax -- in Berkeley -- which is allowed to remain intact.
July 03, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Obamacare Enrollment Is Up, But Fewer Signed Up During Open Enrollment
More Americans who signed up for Obamacare plans are sticking with them.
July 03, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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After Initial Refusal, Trump Orders Flags to Lower for Newsroom Shooting Victims
The White House will permit Annapolis mayor Gavin Buckley to lower U.S. flags to half-staff in remembrance of the mass shooting at The Capital last week after Buckley said it denied his initial request.
July 03, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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After Medicaid Ruling Doesn't Go His Way, Kentucky Governor Eliminates Dental and Vision
U.S. Rep. Andy Barr said Monday he supports Kentucky's ability to determine who receives Medicaid benefits, a day after the Bevin administration eliminated access to vision and dental coverage for 460,000 Kentuckians on Medicaid.
July 03, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Soda Taxes Started in California. Now the State Is Banning Them.
California cities and counties won't be allowed to tax soda for the next 12 years after Gov. Jerry Brown signed fast-moving legislation Thursday.
July 03, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Plastic Straw Bans Face Blowback
Hard on the heels of banning plastic bags, states and cities are being pressed by environmentalists to eliminate another consumer convenience — plastic straws. But objections from the plastics industry, restaurants and disability advocates have derailed or delayed some proposed straw bans.
July 02, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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A First in the Nation, Pennsylvania Seals Some Criminal Records
Gov. Tom Wolf on Thursday signed a "clean slate" bill that seals nonviolent criminal records after a decade, a move that progressive groups touted as a first for any state and a national model for planned federal legislation.
July 02, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Why Is Wyoming's Incarceration Rate Rising When America's Is Falling?
Every weekday at 2 p.m. a metal door swings open in a Casper courtroom and people wearing shackles and orange jumpsuits shuffle inside. The defendants, mostly men, wait for a judge to call their case and read them their rights.
July 02, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Feds Increase Oversight of Medicaid Enrollment, Managed Care Plans
The CMS is ratcheting up scrutiny of state Medicaid programs.The agency announced Tuesday that it is boosting audits to confirm that Medicaid beneficiaries are correctly identified as expansion or pre-expansion enrollees. States receive higher federal match rates of around 90% for expansion enrollees, while the match rate can be as low as 50% for pre-expansion enrollees.
July 02, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
As a guy who, professionally, is supposed to be able to convince people with words to do something, I couldn't reach her. She said, 'I'm tired of being tired. And I just want to go. And she said, 'Do you want to hear it?' And I said, 'No, I don't.'
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall on his last words to his wife before she hung up the phone and died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He says his wife struggled with mental illness and substance abuse.
July 02, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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