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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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Out of Other Execution Drugs, Oklahoma Makes Unprecedented Turn Toward Nitrogen Gas
Oklahoma plans to start carrying out executions with nitrogen gas, a method that has never been used in the U.S. but that some states have already approved amid difficulties with lethal injections.
March 15, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
I still had the floor and as a freshman I was expected to shut up, but I thought it was an important issue and I didn’t stop talking.
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, in 1993, on his "shouting match" over welfare funds for disabled legal immigrants with the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.
March 14, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
62%
Increase in new houses built in wildfire-prone areas in Southern California between 1990 and 2000. That's double the U.S. housing growth rate during that time. Last year, wildfires in the state killed almost 50 people and destroyed more than 10,000 structures.
March 14, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Beyond Amazon: States Prepare to Pounce on Online Sales Taxes
With the U.S. Supreme Court weeks away from hearing arguments in a landmark case on online sales taxes, several states are readying laws that would allow them to begin collecting millions of dollars almost immediately if the court rules in their favor.
March 14, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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First Openly Gay Mayor Elected in Fort Lauderdale
Fort Lauderdale has elected its first openly gay mayor.
March 14, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Wisconsin Makes It Easier for Rural School Districts to Raise Property Taxes
Low-spending school districts in Wisconsin will be allowed to increase property taxes without voter approval under a measure signed into law Monday by Gov. Scott Walker.
March 14, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Republican Wins Tennessee Special Election
Republican Shane Reeves has won a special election to fill a vacant seat in the Tennessee Senate.
March 14, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Publicly Financed Campaigns Coming to Local D.C. Elections
In a turnaround that caught many by surprise, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Tuesday signed a bill creating a public financing program for local campaigns — and said she would fund it in her upcoming budget.
March 14, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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In California, Trump Talks Up the Wall and Bashes His Critics
President Trump saw just what he wanted to see on his first visit to California as president on Tuesday -- physical evidence of the "big, beautiful wall" separating the United States and Mexico that was the central promise of his campaign -- yet steered clear of the resistance to his presidency that has come to define the state.
March 14, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Court Allows Most of Texas' Anti-Sanctuary Cities Law to Stand for Now
A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that most of Texas' "sanctuary cities" law can remain in effect while the legal battle continues in a lower district court, a major victory for the state.
March 14, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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