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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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Challenge to Tennessee Voter ID Law Rejected
A state judge ruled that Tennessee’s voter identification law does not violate the state’s constitution, likely keeping thousands of Tennesseans without proper photo ID from the ballot in November.
September 27, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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State, Local Sales Tax Deduction at Risk of Being Eliminated
More than five dozen House members are pressing leaders of a tax panel to preserve a deduction for state and local sales taxes.
September 27, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Georgia Archives to Cut Back Service, History to the Public
The move will make Georgia the only state without an archives open to the public on a regular basis. But this closing is simply the most severe symptom of a greater crisis facing permanent government collections in nearly every state, professional archivists say.
September 27, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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UC Davis Gives Pepper-Sprayed Students $30,000
The University of California will pay out $630,000 to 21 UC Davis students who were doused with pepper spray by campus police during a videotaped protest in November that the Occupy movement used as the iconic example of excessive police force.
September 27, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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New Mexico Police Chief's Resignation Leaves Just 1 Certified Officer: A Dog
A drug-sniffing dog now is the only certified member of the police force in the small eastern New Mexico town of Vaughn.
September 27, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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GOP Study Warns Against Federal Bailout of State Pensions
State and local governments facing pension liabilities that already total in the trillions of dollars will be forced to seek bailouts from the U.S. government, Republican Party Congressional staffers said in a study, as they warned that such bailouts could have dire consequences.
September 27, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
Americans have the mistaken idea that more medicine is better medicine.
Andy Allison, the director of Arkansas' Medicaid program, which is launching an initiative aimed at taming runaway costs by offering doctors financial incentives to provide more efficient care.
September 26, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
9 points
The new font size that candidates' names will appear in on New York City's general election ballot this fall. Voters had complained that they could barely read the names when they were printed in a 7-point font.
September 26, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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U.S. Supreme Court Lets West Virginia Voting Maps Stand
The court reversed a January lower federal court ruling that threatened to upend an incumbent-friendly redistricting map.
September 26, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Pennsylvania Eases Voter ID Rules
Responding to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court opinion that raised questions about the ID card process, the requirement that a voter first attempt to get a traditional Department of Transportation ID card has been eliminated.
September 26, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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