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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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Fake Candidates Kept on Wisconsin Recall Ballots
State elections officials voted 6-0 to leave in place the protest candidates who filed paperwork to run in the recall elections against Gov. Scott Walker and five other GOP officials, ensuring that all the races would hold primary elections May 8 and general elections June 5.
April 18, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Police Departments See Risks When Officers Use Social Media
As more law-enforcement agencies are using networking websites to engage their communities, departments are weighing in on the role social media play in the personal lives of their employees and warning of the dangers.
April 18, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Bill Banning Teacher-Student Relationships Dies in California
Because state law already bans adults from having sex with or attempting to seduce minors, the key impact of AB 1861 would have been to crack down on affairs between teachers and 18-year-olds.
April 18, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Corruption Costs Cities with Enormous Legal Bills
The costs can continue years after the accused have been ousted. And in some cases, the expenses exceed the amount of city money that officials are accused of stealing or squandering in the first place.
April 18, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
It’s the appearance of progress rather than actual progress.
Ken Wolski, head of New Jersey’s Coalition for Medical Marijuana, on the state's decision to allow the first medical pot center to start growing the cannabis crop yet none of the centers are operating and not one patient has received access to the drug.
April 17, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
64 cents
The amount, on average, that a woman in Wyoming earns for every dollar earned by a man. The state has the nation's biggest wage gap between genders. The District of Columbia, where the earnings ratio for women is 91 cents, has the best.
April 17, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Texas to Reject Federal Funding for Women's Health Program
Texas officials have proposed phasing-out federal funding for the women's health program through November after Washington said it was illegal to ban the participation of Planned Parenthood.
April 17, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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First Medical Pot to be Planted in New Jersey
More than two years after New Jersey’s medical marijuana law was passed, state officials have given the go-ahead for the first crop of cannabis to be planted.
April 17, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Utah's Child Abuse Fatality Disclosure Laws 'Most Improved'
Utah moved from an F to an A minus in a periodic nationwide analysis of child fatality disclosure laws, despite recent restrictions to the amount of information the state gives out about children who die during or shortly after receiving state services. Utah was one of two states classified as "most improved" by the Children’s Advocacy Institute at the University of San Diego School of Law and First Star.
April 17, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Democrats Recruit Congressional Candidates Outside Political Arena
Rep. Steve Israel said there is a 2012 strategy to recruit non-traditional candidates with compelling biographies or achievements outside of the political arena in an effort to compete in traditionally safe Republican territories.
April 17, 2012
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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