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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
1,000
National Guard troops that the Texas governor said on Friday that he will deploy to the U.S.-Mexico border, which will double the number of Texas troops there.
June 25, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
The Oklahoma City bombing got our attention. We knew we needed to be prepared.
G. Kemble Bennett, on how he thought of "Disaster City," a mock municipality where Texas A&M’s Emergency Services Training Institute prepares first responders from around the world for the worst disasters. The "city" has derailed train cars, a leaking chemical tank, a strip mall, an office complex, a single-family home and a theater, to name a few.
June 25, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
65 bitcoins
Ransom that hackers demanded from Riviera Beach, Fla., which is equivalent to $600,000. The city paid it. The cyberattack forced local police and fire departments to write 911 calls on paper.
June 24, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
When you see his hand go up, you get off your device, you quit your Googling and you listen.
Tom Cochran, executive director of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, referring to West Sacramento, Calif., Mayor Christopher Cabaldon.
June 24, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
The Planned Parenthood clinic in St. Louis.
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Missouri's Only Abortion Clinic Awaits Court Decision After State Denies License
Planned Parenthood will continue providing abortions at least until a St. Louis judge issues a ruling in the clinic's legal battle with the state Department of Health and Senior Services, which on Friday declined to renew the facility's license.
June 24, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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More than 3,500
Current and former police officers whose offensive social media posts have been compiled and published by the watchdog Plain View Project. Several law enforcement agencies have since taken disciplinary action against those officers or launched their own investigations.
June 21, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
Send bachelors and come heavily armed. I'm not going to be a political prisoner in the state of Oregon.
Oregon state Sen. Brian Boquist, one of the nearly dozen Republican lawmakers who went into hiding or left the state last week to prevent the chamber from voting on a bill that would create a cap-and-trade system in the state to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The Democratic governor sent the state police to find them.
June 21, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
This has been the dirty little secret of the [corrections] system for decades.
Adam Gelb, founder and director of the Council on Criminal Justice, in reference to a report that shows 45 percent of admissions to state prisons are the result of probation or parole violations -- about a third as minor as missing a meeting or spending time with other felons.
June 20, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
$1 billion
Amount that Google pledged to give toward alleviating the housing crisis in the San Francisco Bay Area, where its headquarters is located.
June 20, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
To a large extent, everybody could benefit from having a pet. When is it an emotional support animal and when it is a pet?
Utah state Sen. Todd Weiler, who voted for a new state law that makes it a misdemeanor to lie about a pet being an emotional support animal. More than two dozen states have passed laws cracking down on this type of fraud.
June 19, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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