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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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Pennsylvania Struggles to Help Financially Distressed Cities
Pennsylvania has an ambitious program aimed at fixing the finances of troubled cities. In most cases, it doesn’t accomplish a lot.
July 12, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Emergency Manager Dispute Heads to Mich. High Court
If the state Supreme Court allows voters to decide whether to repeal the controversial law, it would have an immediate effect on emergency managers in several towns and possibly the city-state consent agreement in Detroit.
July 12, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray Ignores Calls to Resign
District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray said that he still believes he's the best person to lead the city despite revelations that he was elected with the help of a $650,000 in illicit funds.
July 12, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Thousands of Colorado Wildfire Evacuation Calls Failed
More than 20,000 evacuation calls were never delivered to residents in the path of a wildfire that destroyed about 350 homes around Colorado Springs last month, records show.
July 12, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Fate of Mississippi's Last Abortion Clinic Still on Hold
A federal judge extended a temporary restraining order against a Mississippi law that could shut down the state's last abortion clinic, citing a need to review documents.
July 12, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Smart911 Online Citizen Profiles to Help D.C. Emergency Responders
When someone calls 911, information stored in a previously created online profile — such as photographs, the presence of seniors or people with disabilities, or the locations of gas valves — is displayed on the dispatcher’s computer screen.
July 12, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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ACLU to Sue Michigan for Violating Students' 'Right to Learn to Read'
In the first case of its kind, the American Civil Liberties Union is charging that the state of Michigan and a Detroit area school district have failed to adequately educate children, violating their “right to learn to read” under an obscure state law.
July 12, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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9/11 Memorial Bars Elected Officials from Speaking at Ceremony
The change comes amid reports of tension between the office of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, the memorial’s chairman, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which is run by those states’ governors, over control of the ceremony and other developments at the World Trade Center site.
July 12, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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New Mexico Attorney General Gary King to Run for Governor, Again
This will be the third time King has sought the governor’s office.
July 12, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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U.S. House Votes to Repeal Health Care Law
The House voted again to repeal President Obama’s healthcare law, a largely symbolic gesture that gave Republicans some revenge against the Supreme Court ruling that declared the law constitutional. The repeal effort will likely die in the Democratic-controlled Senate.
July 12, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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