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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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Following Supreme Court Ruling, GOP Vows to Repeal Health Law
Republicans are doubling down on promises to repeal the healthcare reform law in the wake of the Supreme Court decision upholding President Obama's signature legislation.
June 29, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Historic College Merger Plan Passes New Jersey Legislature
The Legislature approved a historic restructuring of the state higher education system that merges the troubled University of Medicine and Dentistry into Rutgers University and makes Rowan University part of a sprawling new collegiate complex in South Jersey.
June 29, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Tea Party Fired Up After Supreme Court's Health Ruling
When the high court upheld the requirement that everyone purchase health insurance, Republicans and GOP strategists vowed to double down in swing states such as Colorado to try to turn the tables of power.
June 29, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Fireworks Restrictions, Bans Span Across Utah
As wildfires streak across a parched and scorched Utah, cities and counties are restricting the use of private fireworks. A few towns have banned them altogether, and their use is now prohibited on all public lands outside of incorporated areas.
June 29, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
#UNCONSTITUTIONAL: #SCOTUS overturns #Obamacare’s individual insurance #mandate. Developing…
U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx of North Carolina, via Twitter, incorrectly interpreting the Supreme Court's ruling on the federal health-care law. The tweet was deleted six minutes later.
June 28, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
$39 million
The amount of money that Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper has already transferred from other places in the budget to help fight the fires raging through the state. Communities will also get help from the federal government, since the White House declared the wildfires a federal disaster yesterday.
June 28, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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The Politics of Rising Tuition Costs
Obama blames the states, but the problem is more complicated.
June 28, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Twitter Impersonators Take Public Officials' Image
Satirical accounts for politicians and public officials are almost as numerous as their real-life counterparts.
June 28, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Panama Canal Expansion Has U.S. Ports Rushing
States are seeking to spend billions of dollars to build bigger ports to accommodate the massive ships that will soon be traveling through the canal. Can they move quickly enough?
June 28, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Cathy Lanier Changes Policing in D.C. and Maybe Nation
The police chief's rejection of zero-tolerance policing that’s driven urban crime fighting for a generation may change the future of public safety in America.
June 28, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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