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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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New Jersey Governor Holds Hospitals Hostage During State Budget Battle
New Jersey hospital CEOs just received a worrisome statement from state Health Commissioner Shereef Elnahal alerting them that money they count on to pay the tab for uninsured patients and educating new doctors will be late, NJ Advance Media has learned.
June 13, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Radical Plan to Split California Into 3 States Qualifies for November Ballot
California's 168-year run as a single entity, hugging the continent's edge for hundreds of miles and sprawling east across mountains and desert, could come to an end next year _ as a controversial plan to split the Golden State into three new jurisdictions qualified Tuesday for the Nov. 6 ballot.
June 13, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Amazon Backlash Spurs Seattle City Council to Repeal 'Head Tax' Just Weeks After Approving It
In a stunning reversal without parallel in Seattle's recent political history, the City Council voted 7-2 Tuesday to repeal a controversial head tax on large employers like Amazon.
June 13, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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A Landslide and a Runoff: South Carolina's Primary Results for Governor
State Rep. James Smith claimed the Democratic Party's nomination for governor in a landslide Tuesday as he and his party try to reclaim the S.C. Governor's Mansion for the first time in 20 years.
June 13, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Democrats Flip Wisconsin State Senate Seat
Democrats in Northern Wisconsin declared victory in a state Senate special election on Tuesday, the party's 43rd red-to-blue state legislative flip since President Donald Trump stepped into the White House last year.
June 13, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Laxalt, Sisolak to Face Off for Nevada Governor
A Democrat fighting for gun background check enforcement and a Republican who wants to keep California’s sanctuary immigration policies out of Nevada are facing off in November to replace term-limited Gov. Brian Sandoval.
June 13, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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The Most Famous Pimp in Nevada Defeats GOP Lawmaker
Pimp Dennis Hof, the owner of half a dozen legal brothels in Nevada and star of the HBO adult reality series "Cathouse," won a Republican primary for the state Legislature on Tuesday, ousting a three-term lawmaker.
June 13, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
I kissed my spouse on stage at my inauguration as mayor. But I don't think I would have put it in a campaign eight years ago.
Openly gay former Houston Mayor Annise Parker, referring to Maryland state Sen. Richard S. Madaleno Jr.'s campaign ad that features him kissing his husband. It is likely the first-ever kiss of a same-sex married couple in a U.S. political ad.
June 12, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
7:01 p.m.
Time that Mark Maggs was handed his termination letter from the Bon Homme County Sheriff's Office in South Dakota -- just one minute after the polls closed for a race between Maggs and the current sheriff. Maggs won.
June 12, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Colleges and State Laws Are Clamping Down on Fraternities
Fraternity members at Louisiana State University adhere to age-old rituals, shrouded in secrecy, that dictate how they gather, greet each other and initiate their young pledges.
June 12, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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