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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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Penn State Officials Conspired for Silence in Sandusky Case
Joe Paterno, former Pennsylvania State University president Graham B. Spanier, and other top administrators conspired for more than a decade to keep quiet sex-abuse allegations against Jerry Sandusky, according to the findings of an internal investigation
July 13, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Philadelphia Homeless Feeding Ban Blocked by Judge
A federal judge blocked enforcement of Mayor Nutter's ban on the distribution of free meals in city parks.
July 13, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Birth Control Bill Veto Sets up Showdown for Missouri Gov. Nixon
Gov. Jay Nixon today vetoed a bill that would have allowed employers and insurers to decide not to provide coverage for abortion, contraception or sterilization if such procedures run contrary to their religious beliefs or moral convictions.
July 13, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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85 Potential Illegal Voters Discovered by Colorado Secretary of State
Secretary of State Scott Gessler has taken his most expansive step yet to identify noncitizens who may be registered to vote, filing open- records requests with jails in 10 of Colorado's largest counties for lists of anyone held on an immigration detainer since 2010.
July 13, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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3 States Kill Medical Marijuana Deduction for Food-Stamp Applicants
Oregon, New Mexico and Maine will no longer allow certain food stamp applicants to deduct medical marijuana expenses from their incomes after federal officials threatened the states with penalties.
July 13, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Texas Sharply Drops Medicaid Expansion Cost Estimate
On the heels of Gov. Rick Perry's declaration that Texas will not expand Medicaid because it is too costly, his health and human services commissioner said that fully implementing health care reform would cost the state about $11 billion less over 10 years than previously estimated.
July 13, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
It's like when you're in high school and your parents get a note from the principal. Your story is, 'Oh, it's nothing, Mom.' But your mom knows better.
Richard Weishaupt, an attorney for a nonprofit that advocates for poor and low-income residents, on Pennsylvania's nonchalant reaction to a letter from the Obama administration probing whether the state wrongly dropped 130,000 people from its Medicaid rolls since last summer.
July 12, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
$242.6 billion
The amount state and local governments spent on construction in May -- the lowest since 2006. Meanwhile, private construction spending has soared to its highest level in more than two years.
July 12, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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CMS Probes Sharp Drop in Pennsylvania Medicaid Rolls
Pennsylvania has dropped tens of thousands of people from its Medicaid rolls since last summer -- and now the Obama administration wants to know if the state wrongly cut off those benefits.
July 12, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Detroit Closes Expensive 311 Call Center
Noted by Pew Charitable Trust researchers as having the most expensive per-call cost among cities that it recently analyzed -- $7.78 per call -- Detroit ceased operations at its 311 Call Center.
July 12, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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