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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’ve hated this impasse because I feel like were family — and families have fights.
Salt Lake City Councilman J.T. Martin to the municipal employees who are protesting the mayor's proposal to give them a 3 to 4 percent raise in exchange for doing away with merit pay and cost of living allowances.
May 18, 2011
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
93%
The portion of Texas' wildfires, which have burned 1.5 million acres so far this year, that were caused by human activity. State officials are now putting restrictions on outdoor smoking, campfires and grilling.
May 18, 2011
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
36
The age of New York's new education chief, John B. King Jr., who will be one of the nation's youngest education leaders and also the state's first African-American and first Puerto Rican commissioner.
May 17, 2011
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
It's the government's job to get out of the way.
GOP Ore. state Rep. Vicki Berger, noting her disappointment about the lack of bills that cut regulations and rein in government.
May 17, 2011
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
There's just a lot more shouting than there is sober thinking.
Angela Kelley, VP for immigration policy at a D.C.-based think tank, who professes that politics are keeping Congress from addressing immigration and suggests that reform would happen if lawmakers voted anonymously.
May 16, 2011
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
170
The approximate number of local governments that got rid of their D.C. lobbyist last year.
May 16, 2011
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
$10 million
The savings that Wash. state, which faces its worst budget deficit in 80 years, will get from suspending its 2012 presidential primary election.
May 13, 2011
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
You're STILL relying on automated responses to constituent emails? Shame on you. You're done for. Tick tock. Good bye.
One of Wis. Rep. Lee Nerison's constituents in an email, which prompted police to investigate as a death threat. The party professed that "tick tock" was meant to refer to time running out to pass the budget-repair bill.
May 13, 2011
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
Where I live, if you don't have a gun it's like you don't have a car.
Mo. state Sen. Brian Nieves, who wanted to lower the minimum age to get a gun permit to 18. Lawmakers compromised, reducing the age requirement from 23 to 21.
May 12, 2011
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
$233,123
The salary set for the new Miami-Dade County, Fla., mayor, which candidate Jose "Pepe" Cancio pledges to cut in half, if elected. He also said he would refuse a pension or a car allowance.
May 12, 2011
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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