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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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Michigan Effort Shows Republican Sway in State Issues
Groups that spent millions on the national election have little to show for it, but state efforts were successful.
December 17, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Newtown Debates Gun Rights, Controls
In Newtown, an anguished debate has broken out: how to protect the rights of responsible gun owners, including hunters, while working to prevent another massacre.
December 17, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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North Carolina's New Health Secretary Picked from Outside the Box
Not many DHHS secretaries started their journey to state government in Warsaw – that’s Poland, not the town in Duplin County.
December 17, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Gun Rights Battle May Reach Supreme Court
The next big issue in the national debate over guns -- whether people have a right to be armed in public -- is moving closer to Supreme Court review.
December 17, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
We’ve got bigger fish to fry.
President Barack Obama talking to Barbara Walters about marijuana legalization in an interview last week. In his first comments on the issue, Obama said that prosecuting pot smokers in Colorado and Washington -- where the drug is now legal -- should not be a “top priority” of the federal government.
December 14, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
4:30 a.m.
The time that the Michigan Legislature ended its lame duck session early Friday morning after rushing to pass a number of bills, including ones that would ease gun restrictions, make it tougher to recall state lawmakers, and replace the emergency manager law that voters struck down in November.
December 14, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Michigan Legislature Passes Abortion, Emergency Manager, Gun, Recall Bills
After a final-day session that lasted more than 18 hours, the Michigan Legislature hastily passed laws related to taxes, abortion, elections, Detroit lighting, a regional transportation authority for southeast Michigan, and emergency managers for distressed cities and school districts, among other measures.
December 14, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Texas' Death Row Population at Its Lowest Since 1989
The population on Texas' death row is at its lowest in more than 20 years, and the state has seen a 75 percent drop in death sentences since 2002.
December 14, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Embattled North Carolina Democratic Party Leader Won't Seek Re-Election
The position of state Democratic Party chair is expected to take on added importance now that the Republicans control all three branches of state government in Raleigh.
December 14, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Despite Cory Booker's National Acclaim, He's Still Slogging in Newark
Mayor Cory Booker lives in two political worlds.
December 14, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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