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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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34 years old
Age of Quinton Lucas, the Kansas City Councilor who won the mayor's race on Tuesday. He will be the city's youngest mayor in more than a century.
June 19, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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From Poverty to the Mayor's Office: The 34-Year-Old Who Won Kansas City's Race
Quinton Lucas, who rose from poverty and homelessness on Kansas City's East Side to become an Ivy League-educated lawyer and City Council member, won a decisive victory in the mayor's race Tuesday night, becoming the youngest person to win the office in more than a century.
June 19, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
We’re doing a disservice to patients if we protect them from hospital bills but bankrupt them on the way there.
James Gelfand, senior vice president of health policy for the ERISA Industry Committee, on air ambulance rides, which can cost in the tens of thousands and aren't usually covered by insurance. Congress is floating plans to protect patients from surprise medical bills -- but none of them address air ambulance costs.
June 18, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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13th
On Monday, New York joined the 12 other states that let undocumented immigrants get driver's licenses.
June 18, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Red ax breaking the floor.
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Why's It So Hard to Ax Bad Government Programs?
Performance data hasn’t worked out the way it was intended.
June 17, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
Some days I’m ready to go, some days I look outside and I want to despair. I want to just lie down and die. But that’s not an option.
Stormy Deere, a resident of Redwood, Miss., whose home is surrounded by chest-deep water that's expected to stay there until at least July, months after record rainfall caused parts of the Mississippi River to flood for the longest time since 1927. She now travels by boat.
June 17, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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23.5%
Long-term health care workers who are immigrants. According to a new study, the Trump administration's immigration policies could worsen workforce shortages in this industry, which already suffers from high turnover.
June 17, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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4 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Hours that California utilities will start charging customers extra for weekday energy use. It will be the first to implement statewide surge pricing.
June 14, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
I want to remind the people of Flint that justice delayed is not always justice denied.
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, after her department announced that it was dropping the remaining criminal charges for the Flint water crisis. The cases were dismissed without prejudice -- meaning they could be refiled -- in order to conduct a full and complete investigation.
June 14, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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This week, Maine joined the seven other states that have legalized physician-assisted suicide -- otherwise known as "death with dignity" or "aid in dying" -- for terminally ill people.
June 13, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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