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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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Georgia Counties Extend Health Insurance to Pets
Some public employees and residents now get 25 percent off all types of veterinary services.
November 29, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Ambitious Anti-Teen Pregnancy Program Seeing Success in Milwaukee
In 2006, Milwaukee had one of the nation’s highest teen birth rates. With more than two years to go on an ambitious goal to curb teen pregnancies, the city has already cut its rate by more than a third.
November 29, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Innovation In-Demand as Economy Makes a Comeback
After years of belt-tightening, CIOs are being petitioned to innovate.
November 29, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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The Problem with Preferential Bids for Women, Minorities
Giving preference to women- or minority-owned businesses is a widely acceptable social policy that can run into management problems.
November 29, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
The Fiscal Future That Won’t Happen
Arithmetic always triumphs; our unsustainable trends will stop. What matters is how.
November 29, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
The Top 5 State-Local Issues Facing the Feds
In the next four years, state and local governments are going to be at the very front of domestic policy -- especially on issues like health care where the feds have gotten most of the headlines.
November 29, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Santa Claus and a Civics Lesson
A 115-year-old editorial on the existence of Santa Claus sheds light on the future of civics in America.
November 29, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
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The number of reported slayings, stabbings, shootings or knifings in New York City this past Monday -- marking the "first time in memory" that the city has had a day without any of those crimes, according to the deputy police commissioner.
November 29, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
Last week The Onion said I was going to become a male stripper. That was my secret plan B if we lost the election.
Education Secretary Arne Duncan, joking that he's more likely to become a stripper -- which the satirical newspaper The Onion suggested -- than secretary of state after New York Times columnist Tom Friedman said he would be a good replacement for Hillary Clinton.
November 29, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Portland OKs Land-Line Tax
Portland's City Council unanimously voted to extend a tax to all land-line phone service providers - an idea that Mayor Sam Adams pushed to raise millions of dollars a year for federally-mandated police reforms.
November 29, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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