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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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L.A. County Sheriff Agrees to Long List of Jail Reforms
Bowing to mounting pressure to fix the nation's largest jail system, Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca agreed Wednesday to sweeping reforms to improve the management and oversight of his agency amid allegations of deputy brutality against inmates.
October 04, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Study: Indiana's Per-Capita Debt is Among Lowest in U.S.
It would cost each person in Indiana about $5,700 to pay off the state’s debt. The national average is more than $13,000.
October 04, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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CDC: Rare, Deadly Meningitis Outbreak Spreads to 5 States
An outbreak of a rare and deadly form of meningitis has now sickened 26 people in five states who received steroid injections. Four people have died.
October 04, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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North Carolina Gubernatorial Debate Reflected State's Political Polarization
North Carolina’s candidates for governor, Walter Dalton and Pat McCrory, engaged in a sharp-edged televised debate, offering barbed exchanges on taxes, businesses, fracking, race and voter ID.
October 04, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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5 Dem Governors Miss Health Benefits Plan Date
It’s not just Republican-led states that didn’t turn in their homework when the teacher asked for it — a handful of states with Democratic governors didn’t meet HHS’s suggested target for submitting their essential health benefit benchmark plans either.
October 04, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Chicago Teachers Overwhelmingly OK New Contract
The members of the Chicago Teachers Union voted 79.1 percent in favor of the contract, which union officials said was the highest approval rating for a contract in the CTU’s history.
October 04, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Atwater, California Declares a Fiscal Emergency
Atwater, California, declared a fiscal emergency and told almost a quarter of its city employees they will lose their jobs as it seeks to avoid becoming the state's fourth city to seek bankruptcy protection.
October 04, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
The economy is not doing poorly because of a lack of money. ... [It's] because we don’t have the creativity, education and investments in people that we had previously.
Fred Leeb, the former emergency financial manager for Pontiac, Mich., a financially distressed city that was essentially taken over by the state. Leeb proposes solving cities' economic problems by giving a few billion dollars to the country's top minds to collaborate on a monumental project -- if they agree to live and work in one of America's struggling cities.
October 03, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
2,362
The number of people in households earning at least $1 million who got unemployment benefits in 2009. According to a Congressional report, prohibiting such payments to millionaires would save $20 million in the next decade.
October 03, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Los Angeles Council Repeals Ban on Medical Marijuana Dispensaries
After struggling for years to regulate storefront pot shops, the Los Angeles City Council voted to repeal the carefully crafted ban on medical marijuana dispensaries it approved a few months ago.
October 03, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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