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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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Rick Perry Endorsements Don't Include Texas House Speaker
Gov. Rick Perry has announced a string of endorsements in the upcoming elections, but he hasn't publicly supported the current House speaker, Joe Straus, who has been criticized in some quarters for not being conservative enough.
May 17, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Child-Care Fraud Detected in Los Angeles County Using Data Analytics
L.A. County Department of Public Social Services rings up $6.8 million in cost avoidance through the use of a detailed data mining and networking system.
May 17, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Oregon County Cuts Law Enforcement, Releases Inmates After Failed Tax Hike
The sheriff of Josephine County got ready to hand out pink slips for deputies and draw up release forms for jail inmates after voters rejected a property tax hike to make up for the loss of federal timber subsidies. Josephine County is among several Oregon counties trying to plug gaping budget holes after the expiration last year of a federal law that sent billions of dollars to rural counties across the country for a decade to compensate for losses in timber revenue on federal lands.
May 17, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Income Tax Hike on High Earners Passes Maryland General Assembly
Maryland’s General Assembly passed the state’s first income-tax hike in five years, targeting six-figure earners to allow continued record spending on education and other Democratic party priorities.
May 17, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Minority Births Are New Majority in U.S.
For the first time in U.S. history, whites of European ancestry account for less than half of newborn children, marking a demographic tipping point that is already changing the nation's politics, economy and workforce.
May 17, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Ousted Ohio Rep. Kucinich Won’t Run in Washington State
Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich, who lost a March primary to fellow Ohio Rep. Marcy Kaptur, had been considering whether to wage a bid in Washington, where the veteran Democratic congressman has a following and where there are three vacant House seats.
May 17, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Chicago Plans 60 More Charter Schools in 5 Years
Chicago Public Schools plans to create 60 more charter schools over five years, which would increase the share of privately run charters to about a quarter of all schools in the district. The plan for charter growth, part of a larger proposal for 100 new schools over the same five years, is laid out in an application seeking $20 million for charter schools from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
May 17, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Georgia Income Tax May Be Abolished, But Not Just Yet
Georgia's General Assembly could abolish the state's income tax, but two local legislators said that isn't going to happen soon.
May 16, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Longtime State Pension Chief Resigns, Calls 401(k) Experiment a 'Failure'
After more than two decades heading pension systems in Colorado and Kansas, Meredith Williams tells Stateline that Americans are woefully underprepared for retirement.
May 16, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
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The number of houses that Detroit has sold to its police and firefighters more than a year after the start of a program to offer cheap, refurbished homes to first responders to convince them to live in the city they're protecting. About half of Detroit's 2,700 officers now live outside the city.
May 16, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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