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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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Decrease in rental housing stock and increase in rental prices after San Francisco applied its rent control law to more properties. Tenants living in rent-controlled units, however, did see savings.
February 22, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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This chocolate syrup represents diversity. You don’t get inclusion until you actually stir it up.
Tyronne Stoudemire, Hyatt Hotels' diversity and inclusion executive, before handing a glass of chocolate milk to Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner. The governor drank it and remarked, "It’s really, really good. Diversity!"
February 22, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Is a 2% Pay Raise Enough to Deter a Teacher Walkout?
Gov. Jim Justice signed the bill Wednesday to raise the salaries of state government employees, despite the inadvertent removal of language that would make the teachers’ pay raises permanent and the teachers’ walkout planned for Thursday.
February 22, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Does the Second Amendment Protect Assault Weapons? 4 Courts Said No.
Almost exactly a year ago, a federal appeals court considered whether a Maryland law banning assault weapons was unconstitutional.
February 22, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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'Rifles From This Point Forward': Parkland's County Arms School Deputies
While lawmakers and activists in Tallahassee and Washington, D.C., furiously debate gun control, deputies in Broward County will be adding firepower to deal with the threat of school shooters, effective immediately.
February 22, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Trump Backs Arming Teachers in Meeting With School Shooting Survivors
President Donald Trump embraced arming educators to stop mass shootings as students and parents from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., pleaded with him to make America's schools safer.
February 22, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Overdose Deaths Fall in 14 States
New provisional data released this month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that drug overdose deaths declined in 14 states during the 12-month period that ended July 2017, a potentially hopeful sign that policies aimed at curbing the death toll may be working.
February 22, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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For Some Crimes, Philadelphia Says Goodbye to Cash Bail
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner said Wednesday that prosecutors would no longer seek cash bail for people accused of some misdemeanors and nonviolent felonies, a significant policy shift that could have a wide-ranging impact on the city's criminal justice system.
February 22, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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At Democrats' Debate for Illinois Governor, Candidates Clash Over Who's a Bigger Madigan Ally
Democratic governor candidates J.B. Pritzker and Daniel Biss clashed Wednesday night over who was more closely allied with House Speaker Michael Madigan as each sought to tarnish the other at a Downstate candidate forum.
February 22, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Jeopardy Host to Moderate Pennsylvania Debate
In 2012, longtime Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek admitted he would have loved to have been one of the questioners at a presidential debate between President Barack Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.
February 21, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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