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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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Property-Tax Delinquents Owe Philadelphia $515.4M
Philadelphia property-tax delinquents piled up an additional $43.8 million in new debt over the last year, an increase of 9.3 percent in a single year, city records show. About 18 percent of all parcels in the city are in arrears -- no other big city in the nation approaches that level of property-tax delinquency.
June 11, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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No Right to Medical Marijuana in Colorado Constitution: Supreme Court
The Colorado Supreme Court has declined to hear a case, effectively endorsing the decision of the Colorado Court of Appeals, which decided last year that medical-marijuana patients have no right to use cannabis.
June 11, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Civil Service Reform: Lessons from Georgia and Indiana
Several states this year are changing how public employees are hired and fired. They may be able to learn a thing or two from states that already have.
June 08, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Minnesota Supreme Court to Rule on Voter ID Ballot Question
The Minnesota Supreme Court plans to move quickly in determining whether to change or quash a constitutional amendment on voter ID before it appears on the November ballot.
June 08, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
People can no longer say that not having a job is better than working at Walmart.
Chicago Alderman Howard B. Brookins, who supports Walmart's move into urban areas. The Windy City has five Walmart stores and construction begins this summer on a sixth.
June 08, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
36%
The portion of young adults in the South who stayed on or enrolled in their parents’ health insurance in the last year, compared to 49 percent in the West, 51 percent in the Northeast, and 60 percent in the Midwest.
June 08, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Medical Marijuana Businesses Lured to Arizona by New Law
Arizona has one of the country’s strictest set of requirements governing the sale of medical marijuana.
June 08, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Polygamist Leader's Town to See More Arizona Police
The Arizona Attorney General’s Office plans to provide funding to the Mohave County sheriff to provide law enforcement patrols in a northern Arizona community with a polygamist enclave.
June 08, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Groups End Effort to Recall Michigan Gov. Snyder
This week's failure of an effort to recall another Republican governor, Scott Walker of Wisconsin, was a factor in Michigan Rising's decision to halt its drive to collect signatures, spokesman Bruce Fealk said.
June 08, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Florida County Elections Chiefs Refuse to Resume Voter Purge
Despite the state’s decision to fight the feds over Florida’s noncitizen voter purge, elections supervisors say they won’t resume the program.
June 08, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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