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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.

News in Numbers
One-third
The portion of people who signed a petition to repeal Maryland's new immigrant tuition law using a website. This is the first time in two decades that enough signatures have been collected to suspend a Md. law and many say it's because of the online petition.
July 14, 2011
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
What do you do when you lay off half your cops? Do you say, 'I’m sorry.'
New Jersey state Sen. Donald Norcross of Camden, who said the survival of his city was literally at stake with the governor's cuts to a program that helps cities and towns. Gov. Christie reduced the program's funding from $139 million to $10 million.
July 13, 2011
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
3 years
The length of time a person will lose their federal welfare benefits if they refuse to take a drug test or test positive for them. Under the new Missouri law, people can be tested if there's reasonable suspicion they're using illegal drugs.
July 13, 2011
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
This is America's dirty little secret, these are crimes the public doesn't see, that the public doesn't want to believe exist.
Ernie Allen of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, referring to human trafficking. A new law in Georgia imposes harsh penalties for forcing children into the sex trade and protects trafficking victims from criminal charges.
July 12, 2011
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
13
The number of residential property owners in New York City who got approval to install solar panels in fiscal year 2010. A lengthy and confusing approval process, among other things, has kept people from going solar.
July 12, 2011
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
50%
The portion of Mississippi residents who have tested positive for HIV and are not receiving treatment for it -- a rate comparable to Botswana, Rwanda and Ethiopia.
July 11, 2011
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
The big lesson from Minnesota is that the unthinkable is possible.
Political scientist Lawrence Jacobs on Minnesota's state shutdown, which is in its second week with no budget deal in sight. Minnesota’s government shutdown is now the longest of any state in nearly a decade.
July 11, 2011
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
240 miles
The distance away from an oil spill site that shows shoreline contamination in Montana. A 12-inch Exxon pipeline burst a week and a half ago, pouring 1,000 barrels of oil into one of America's most pristine rivers not too far from Yellowstone National Park.
July 08, 2011
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
I do have fewer paper cuts since we went into this.
N.Y. Justice Paul G. Feinman, mentioning one of the many benefits to the state supreme court's recent move to go paperless. Although federal courts have been online for a decade, state courts are just starting to follow suit.
July 08, 2011
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
Whenever there's a large contribution, it always begs the question of what's that for?
Jay Heck, an advocate for limits on private fundraising, on Wisconsin's law that allowed some senators facing recall elections to accept unlimited donations from single donors. State Sen. Alberta Darling raised $958,418 just this year. Her top contributor was the president of Tamarack Petroleum.
July 07, 2011
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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