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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
It makes you itch so bad you want to scratch until you bleed.
Marina Gallo, a resident of Seville, Calif., where the water, which she showers with, frequently fails public health standards. She buys bottled water for cooking and drinking. People in these communities sometimes spend 18 percent of their income on water.
April 25, 2011
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
When you're driving around looking for a parking space, double parking, circling, you're dumb. I want us to be smarter.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee on the city's launch of a smartphone app that tells drivers where parking is available -- and how much it will cost.
April 22, 2011
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
$15,915
The amont of money Ohio demanded back from an auto-parts supplier that received a $35,000 grant five years ago to employ 816 people. Only 445 have been hired so far.
April 22, 2011
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
$1,000
The fine that Indiana state senators of the minority party would receive for each day they're out. GOP lawmakers proposed an "anti-bolting" bill to prevent Democrats from walking out and causing a future shutdown.
April 21, 2011
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
I think there is an inability for people in the system to consider other new or different ways of doing things.
Oregon state Rep. Matt Wand (R) criticizing those opposed -- mostly Democrats -- to a bill that would make it easier for school districts to hire superintendents with no background in education.
April 21, 2011
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
It’s just so much easier to put the handcuffs on, take them to jail ... But you’re not solving anything.
Fairfax County, Va., police officer, Leanna Wilson, who had to talk a suicidal man out of jumping off a bridge. Police are increasingly taking on the job of mental health workers, as state and local governments cut their programs.
April 20, 2011
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
$36 million
The amount of planned new spending on fighting prescription drug addiction in Ohio, where fatal overdoses more than quadrupled in the last decade.
April 20, 2011
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
3.9 million
The gallons of fracking fluids in Texas containing a carcinogen that can destroy red blood cells and damage internal organs and bone marrow, according to a Congressional investigation amid concerns of groundwater contamination.
April 19, 2011
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
The loser shouldn't win.
Indiana GOP state Sen. Michael Young defending his amendment to allow the Republican governor to appoint a new secretary of state if the recently elected one is found ineligible. Under current law, the job would go to the runner-up -- a Democrat.
April 19, 2011
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
$200,000
The amount given to Tenn. candidates for state legislature and governor last year by the banking industry, which is now asking lawmakers to reduce the number of public notices required for foreclosures.
April 18, 2011
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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