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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.

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New tax, per employee, that big companies in Seattle, like Amazon and Starbucks, will soon have to pay. The money will go toward alleviating homelessness, which reached emergency levels in the city in 2015.
May 16, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Nebraska Primary Sets Up Showdown for Governor
Nebraska voters set up a November gubernatorial showdown between Gov. Pete Ricketts and State Sen. Bob Krist as both candidates cruised to wins in Tuesday’s primary election.
May 16, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Idaho Lt. Gov. Wins GOP Primary for Governor
Lt. Gov. Brad Little seized an early lead Tuesday night and held it as he asked Republican voters for a promotion from Idaho's No. 2 job to its No. 1 job.
May 16, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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California's Assisted Suicide Law Overturned on a Technicality
A judge ordered a halt Tuesday to California's right-to-die law for terminally ill patients, ruling that it was illegally taken up and passed during a special legislative session devoted to health care funding. Unless a higher court intervenes, the law, in effect since June 2016, will become unenforceable next week.
May 16, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Socialist-Backed Candidates Sweep Pennsylvania State House Primaries
Four Pennsylvania state House candidates backed by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) won their Democratic primaries, marking another milestone in the radical left’s march into electoral politics.
May 16, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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State Lawmaker Wins GOP Nomination to Challenge Pennsylvania Governor
Scott Wagner, the Republican Party's endorsed candidate for governor, survived an expensive three-way primary Tuesday to set up a showdown in November with Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf.
May 16, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Oregon Governor Cruises to Primary Win
Gov. Kate Brown cruised to an easy win in the Democratic primary, marking the official start of a re-election campaign she has focused on for more than a year.
May 16, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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What Protesting Teachers in North Carolina Want
The group organizing Wednesday's mass teacher rally in Raleigh says it wants state lawmakers to sharply raise education spending _ including pay raises for all school employees _ and to reverse many of the education changes made in the past seven years.
May 16, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Parents of Parkland Victims Run for School Board
The normally uneventful election for Broward County School Board has turned into a nationally watched race now that two parents of victims at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High have filed to run.
May 16, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Trump Official Suggests Shipping North Korea's Nuclear Weapons to Tennessee
A top Trump administration says North Korea’s nuclear weapons should be shipped to East Tennessee if that rogue regime makes good on its promise to dismantle its nuclear-testing program.
May 16, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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