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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.

An internship program in Georgia is hoping to open young minds to a career in public service.
Millions of millennials will soon be putting down roots. Cities and suburbs that are less attractive to them have a limited window to turn things around.
The latest market for gaming isn’t in the suburbs anymore; it’s downtown, where developers are retrofitting existing buildings and changing the casino as we know it.
Elections and governance have become so intertwined that it’s hard to know when campaigns begin or end. We do know we need big ideas.
Changes in its political system may point the way for it to meet financial challenges.
Washington, D.C., one of the most congested cities in the country, is testing technology that could ease traffic gridlock.
Thomas Jordan Jarvis, North Carolina’s governor from 1879 to 1885.
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The portion of states that levy an estate tax based on the federal system and would have to decide whether to create an estate tax of their own if Mitt Romney becomes president and ends the federal estate tax, as he plans.
A decade after a federal court judge ordered New Jersey to stop enforcing a controversial residency requirement for state legislative candidates, Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa is fighting to reinstitute it.
State taxes, which are closely tied to the federal tax code, could change dramatically depending on the outcome of the election.