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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.

911 calls that failed to go through in 2017 due to an AT&T outage. Customers couldn't dial 911 again on Tuesday morning.
Jonathan Singer, one of just two state legislators who endorsed the Colorado ballot measure that legalized recreational marijuana. He was talking to a reporter in his car while his 3-year-old sat in the back seat.
Criminal records that Pennsylvania is automatically sealing for charges that didn't result in convictions and low-level misdemeanors committed by people who haven't incurred any other charges within a decade. The state's Clean Slate law is unprecedented in America.
Patricia Okonta, a legal fellow at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, referring to school dress codes that prohibit hairstyles typically associated with black people, such as afros, braids, twists, and locks. California is on its way to becoming the first state to ban discrimination against natural hair.
Anticipated reduction in non-citizens' response rate to the 2020 Census if it includes a citizenship question. That translates to an overall drop of 2.2 percentage points for all households.
The justices rejected the Trump administration's plan, for now, to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census. Even if it's not ultimately added, there are concerns about immigrants, minorities and low-income people not being counted.
Chief Justice John Roberts, writing Thursday's U.S. Supreme Court decision that leaves it up to states and Congress to address partisan gerrymandering.
People who could lose their health care -- whether it's through Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program or the marketplace -- if the Trump administration goes through with its proposal to change how the federal poverty line is calculated.
LGBTQ people's representation in U.S. politics. Out of the nearly 520,000 elected offices, LGBTQ people hold 698 of them.