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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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What Makes the Best Government Website?
The ‘Best of the Web’ winners showcase must-have features for effective public-sector sites.
September 27, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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DIY Urbanism Makes Creative Use of Public Spaces
As the economy continues to take big bites out of arts and city planning budgets, this bottom-up approach is changing the look of some cities. Are governments ready to embrace these grassroots ideas?
September 27, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Tow rows of police officers walking away from the camera down a street.
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How Private Services Became Public
Things we take for granted today -- public police, roads and libraries -- were only achieved through long, hard political battles that lasted decades and sometimes centuries.
September 27, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Electric Vehicles’ Role in Meeting New Efficiency Rules
One man’s test of the electric vehicle charging infrastructure along the West Coast highlights the hurdles ahead for states and localities in meeting the Obama administration’s new fuel efficiency rules.
September 27, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
65%
The portion of Americans who trust their state government, according to a recent Gallup poll. Citizens' confidence in state government is among the strongest since Gallup started the poll in 1997.
September 27, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
We may lose some seats in the Legislature, but this is a Republican state and it isn’t going to change.
Steve Pierce, president of the state Senate in Arizona, where newly redrawn legislative maps are expected to help Democrats pick up seats in November.
September 27, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Arizona Conservatives Face Triple Threat in November
New legislative district maps are expected to help Democrats pick up seats; Arizona is voting on a ballot initiative to install a top-two primary system intended to help elect more moderates; and even if conservatives remain in charge, another ballot initiative could force the legislature to spend more on education than it otherwise would.
September 27, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Philadelphia's GunStat: It's Like GPS for Repeat Firearm Offenders
The city started GunStat to reduce gun violence by targeting violent and repeat offenders in some neighborhoods where bullets fly too often.
September 27, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Camden Rejects Bids for New Jersey’s 1st Privately Owned Public School
In January, Gov. Chris Christie signed a law allowing nonprofits to apply to start up to a dozen new public charter schools in struggling districts like Camden, Newark and Trenton.
September 27, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Terminally Ill May Decide How, When to Die in New Jersey
Assemblyman John Burzichelli quietly proposed a bill that would grant doctors the right to prescribe lethal doses of drugs to patients who have less than six months to live.
September 27, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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