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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
428
The number of businesses that were not on the state tax roll until Washington instituted a three-month amnesty period allowing them to pay overdue taxes without penalty or fines.
May 05, 2011
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
This is no budget crisis. It's a moral crisis.
Bryan Perlmutter, an N.C. State University sophomore, who joined teachers to protest the proposed $1 billion cuts to education. NCSU would lose $80 million.
May 04, 2011
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
60%
The drop in paper and plastic bag usage at food and alcohol stores since Washington, D.C., implemented a bag tax in January 2010. Montgomery County, Md., just passed a similar tax.
May 04, 2011
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
We would have expected this sort of thing from the Bush administration, but not Obama.
A medical marijuana lobbyist, Ezra Eickmeyer, referring to a letter from the Dept. of Justice warning states that everyone from licensed growers to state employees could be subject to prosecution for their role in marijuana regulation -- even if it's legal under state law.
May 03, 2011
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
23,000
The average number of people that Michigan Gov. Snyder reaches through his town hall meetings conducted by telephone. He's held four since taking office in January.
May 03, 2011
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
Are we going to put bars around the city, around Detroit, so you cannot leave?
Michigan native Eric Buchanan on NYC Mayor Bloomberg's proposal to get Detroit's population numbers back up by allowing immigrants in but only if they agree to stay for five to 10 years.
May 02, 2011
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
28%
The hike in a NYC resident's rent, violating a 2009 court ruling limiting annual rent increases to a few percentage points. In contrast to the ruling, lawmakers have proposed allowing landlords to continue charging unregulated rates.
May 02, 2011
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
6.6 million
The number of subscribers to NY-alert, a free state-created system that sends people warnings in a variety of ways, such as texts or emails, when emergencies and threats arise.
April 29, 2011
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
Death Row was never supposed to be a long-term retirement home.
Calif. state Sen. Joel Anderson on the state's slow pace of executing inmates. He said this after cheering the cancellation of a new Death Row, which would have cost $356 million to build.
April 29, 2011
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
I am officially requesting a written reason from each of you about why I am being removed.
Steve LeBlanc, who was fired after serving 14 years as the Galveston, Texas, City Manager. The meeting to consider his removal was filled with his supporters, who threatened to recall the City Council.
April 28, 2011
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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