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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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Candidate for Georgia Governor Bought Condo From Lobbyist
Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle bought a condo in downtown Atlanta a decade ago from a well-connected energy lobbyist who owned the unit next door.
June 15, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Court: Federal Government Doesn’t Owe Insurers Obamacare Payments
The federal government doesn’t have to pay health insurers money they claim they’re owed from an Obamacare program, a federal appellate court ruled Thursday morning in a case with billions of dollars at stake.
June 15, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Medicaid Work Requirements Get Their Day in Court. Here's 5 Things to Know About Them.
The Trump administration’s decision in January to give states the power to impose work requirements on Medicaid enrollees faces a federal court hearing Friday.
June 15, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Missouri Refuses to Pay Ex-Governor's Legal Bills
Missouri has refused to pay two attorneys hired to help Eric Greitens stave off possible impeachment, leaving the bill up to the former governor himself.
June 15, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Houses Burn 'Like Dominoes' as Wildfires Menace the West
A fast-moving brush fire destroyed eight homes in the Utah tourist town of Moab, while more than 3,000 people in Colorado and Wyoming fled multiple wildfires scorching the drought-stricken U.S. West on Wednesday. The blaze in Moab, known for its dramatic red rocks, started in a wooded area Tuesday night and quickly spread to homes over less than a square mile, Police Chief Jim Winder said. Crews were extinguishing embers Wednesday.
June 15, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Time to Bust Out the Buttons? Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban on Political Attire at Polls
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a Minnesota law that prohibits people from wearing political clothing or buttons at polling places, calling the ban overly broad but leaving room for the state to impose narrower restrictions.
June 15, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
More than 100
Confederate monuments and symbols that have been taken down since 2015, when a white supremacist killed nine African-Americans in a Charleston, S.C., church. Roughly 1,700 still stand in public spaces.
June 14, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
There aren't enough white kids to go around.
Arizona state Rep. David Stringer, a Republican. Under fire, he later defended his comment: "Diversity may be a great thing, there might be a lot of advantages, I’m not arguing against diversity at all, but no country can be demographically transformed without any political or social consequences."
June 14, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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New York AG Sues Trump, His Kids and His Foundation
The Trump family's claims of good will were built on a bad foundation.
June 14, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Mayors Unite to Press for Federal Marijuana Reform
The Denver and Thornton mayors have joined a new coalition of U.S. city leaders that will lobby Congress and the Trump administration to increase local control over marijuana policy.
June 14, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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