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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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Supreme Court Denies Pennsylvania GOP's Request to Delay New Voting Maps
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene Monday in a Pennsylvania gerrymandering case with national implications, denying Republican lawmakers' attempt to delay drawing a new congressional map and increasing the likelihood that the map will be redrawn in time for this year's midterm elections.
February 05, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
job-vacancy
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Unfilled Jobs Take Toll on Governments Across the Country
When vacancies are high, there are consequences -- and many places are feeling them.
February 05, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
$3.2 million
Taxpayer money Pennsylvania has spent in the last eight years to resolve more than two dozen sexual harassment claims against public employees. On Friday, the state's Democratic Party chairman was fired amid complaints about his handling of elected officials who have settled harrasment-related cases.
February 05, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
A person convicted of a crime may have long ago exited the prison cell and completed probation. Her voting rights, however, remain locked in a dark crypt. Only the state has the key -- but the state has swallowed it.
Judge Mark Walker, upon ruling that Florida's voting system for felons -- which bars them from participating in elections unless they receive executive clemency -- is unconstitutional. Florida is one of a handful of states where felons’ voting rights aren’t automatically restored after they serve their sentence.
February 05, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Walker's Welfare Limits Could Cost $90 Million to Implement
Gov. Scott Walker's administration estimates that implementing his proposed limits on welfare could cost state and federal taxpayers nearly $90 milliona year, plus millions more in startup expenses.
February 05, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Prisoners Reach Settlement With Texas in Air Conditioning Case
After years of court wrangling over the dangers of unmitigated summer heat in cellblocks, Texas prison officials have reached a tentative settlement to provide air conditioning at a geriatric prison outside of Houston along with resolving lawsuits involving inmates who died or were injured by excessive heat in several other prisons.
February 05, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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In Voting Trial, Kris Kobach Will Represent Himself
When a federal lawsuit challenging Kansas's proof of citizenship voter law goes to trial in March, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach plans to be in the courtroom.
February 05, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Baltimore Sues Opioid Companies -- and a Local Doctors' Office
Baltimore's law department filed a lawsuit Wednesday against opioid manufacturers and distributors over the marketing of addictive pain pills, adding the weight of the Maryland jurisdiction hardest hit by the overdose crisis to the legal campaign to hold the pharmaceutical industry accountable.
February 05, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Trump Administration Approves Indiana's Medicaid Plan
Indiana on Friday became the second state to win federal approval to add a work requirement for adult Medicaid recipients who gained coverage under the Affordable Care Act, but a less debated “lockout” provision in its new plan could lead to tens of thousands of enrollees losing coverage.
February 05, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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The Rising Crime That Police Struggle to Track and Fight
Utah’s chief law enforcement officer was deep in the fight against opioids when he realized that a lack of data on internet sales of Fentanyl was hindering investigations. So the officer, Keith D. Squires, the state’s public safety commissioner, created a team of analysts to track and chronicle online distribution patterns of the drug.
February 05, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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