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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.

Who Said That
I just take the verbal abuse. I’m used to it.
Tom Belote, a Ridgefield, Conn., town constable, referring to the angry calls he takes at the emergency operations center from the many people still without power. The town cut off all of the electricity during the tropical storm to eliminate the restoration crews' risks of electrocution.
September 01, 2011
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
$173,000
The legal fees that the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has been court ordered to pay to The L.A. Times. The newspaper filed a lawsuit after the department denied a request for the names of deputies involved in three fatal shootings.
August 31, 2011
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Archive
Municipalities Challenge Census Numbers
Dozens of cities and counties insist that not all their residents were counted. They may be fighting a losing battle.
August 31, 2011
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
Remain in la casa para much rain y lighningo y thundera! El Bang Bang!
A tweet from @ElBloombito, which one New York City resident created to poke fun at Mayor Bloomberg's heavy American accent and prolific mispronunciations when he delivered warnings in Spanish about the tropical storm. Within days, the account gained 15,000 followers.
August 31, 2011
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
I wouldn’t recommend that any landowner simply rely on state regulations to guarantee that there aren’t going to be any violations.
Stephen Saunders, an oil and gas attorney, on school administrators' assumption that it's the government and not landowners' responsibility to ensure safe drilling practices. Dozens of school districts nationwide have leased their mineral rights to natural gas companies.
August 30, 2011
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
3 1/2 years
The prison sentence that former Nogales, Ariz., Mayor Octavio Garcia Von Borstel received for fraud and illegally conducting an enterprise. He pleaded guilty to defrauding Western Union of nearly $618,000, but no contest to helping companies get city contracts in exchange for kickbacks.
August 30, 2011
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
The localities should know better what the requirements are of their citizens, and one size doesn’t normally fit all.
Virginia Del. Thomas A. Greason, who said he would renew efforts to give school boards more control over their start dates. The "Kings Dominion law," which bars schools from opening before Labor Day, was passed in 1986 to protect the tourism industry from losing late-summer customers.
August 29, 2011
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
$316,000
The amount of a federal early childhood education grant that Detroit Mayor Bing wants to use to relocate and renovate the city's Human Services Department building. Councilmembers are calling for an investigation, noting that the city has previously lost federal funds because of improper use.
August 29, 2011
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
More than 5 million
The number of homes and businesses that lost power when Hurricane Irene hit the East Coast over the weekend.
August 29, 2011
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Archive
Florida’s Unlikely Emergency Management Director
Many are watching to see how former Wal-Mart executive Bryan Koon will adapt his private-sector knowledge to aiding the Sunshine State.
August 26, 2011
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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