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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.

News in Numbers
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The number of metro areas where commuters increased their use of public transportation last year, according to a Governing analysis of new census data. Find out if yours was one of them.
October 01, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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DNA Evidence Exonerates 300th Prisoner Nationwide
A Louisiana man is released from death row after his murder conviction is overturned. He said he was coerced into giving a false confession.
October 01, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Montana Opens 1st State Public Employee Health Clinic
Gov. Brian Schweitzer says the primary care clinic in the state capital Helena will keep the area's 11,000 state workers and their dependents healthier while saving the state $20 million over five years.
October 01, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Bill Giving Young Immigrants Driver's Licenses Becomes California Law
Gov. Jerry Brown signed a new law that will allow hundreds of thousands of young illegal immigrants to obtain driver's licenses and vetoed another that would have restricted sheriffs from helping federal authorities detain undocumented Californians for potential deportation.
October 01, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Felons Getting Voting Rights Back in Virginia
Gov. Robert F. McDonnell is on pace to achieve his campaign-trail pledge to restore the right to vote to more felons than any governor in Virginia history. Virginia is one of four states where the power to restore voting rights rests solely with the governor.
October 01, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Convicted Public Officials Fail to Pay Back Legal Fees in Pennsylvania
A law requires convicted public officials to reimburse the treasury if they had lawyered up at public expense.
October 01, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Terrorism Charges Rarely Upheld in Tennessee
Only nine people in the state have been arrested on terrorism-related charges since the laws went into effect in 2002. All but one of the defendants had their charges dismissed or were convicted on lesser charges.
October 01, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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California 1st to Ban Gay 'Conversion' Therapy
Gov. Jerry Brown has signed legislation that makes California the first state to ban a controversial form of psychotherapy that's aimed at making gay teenagers straight.
October 01, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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How Body Language Can Improve Union Talks, the Real Cost of Closing Schools and a Board Game for Budget Writers
Plus: Advice for the public sector from the private sector and more management news
September 28, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
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The portion of deaths in Utah that occurred in a person's home -- the highest at-home death rate of any state.
September 28, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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