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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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Infection Lapses Are Rampant in Nursing Homes, But Punishment Is Rare
Basic steps to prevent infections — such as washing hands, isolating contagious patients and keeping ill nurses and aides from coming to work — are routinely ignored in the nation’s nursing homes, endangering residents and spreading hazardous germs.
December 22, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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The Medical Marijuana Industry Has a Staff Problem in Hawaii: Not Enough
Hawaii's cannabis industry is facing more setbacks as the state struggles with an understaffed program.
December 22, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Top Education Official in Pennsylvania, Accused of Sexual Relations With Teens, Resigns
Gov. Wolf accepted the resignation of the chairman of the state Board of Education on Thursday after the Inquirer and Daily News reported that a number of women said he had pursued sexual relationships with them when they were teenagers and he was years their senior.
December 22, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Michigan's Mechanism for Funding Retiree Health Care Ruled Unconstitutional
Michigan school employees got an early Christmas present Wednesday from the Michigan Supreme Court, which ruled that the state has to refund $554 million that was taken from them during the height of the last recession.
December 22, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Secret Texting App Spurs Investigation of Missouri Governor
Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley has launched an investigation into whether Gov. Eric Greitens and his staff illegally destroyed public records by using an app that erases text messages.
December 22, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Obamacare Enrollment Going Strong Despite Funding Cuts and Confusion
A day after President Donald Trump said the Affordable Care Act “has been repealed,” officials reported that 8.8 million Americans have signed up for coverage on the federal insurance exchange in 2018 — nearly reaching 2017’s number in half the sign-up time.
December 22, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Disaster Aid Package Dies in U.S. Senate After Passing House
Congress averted a government shutdown Thursday by approving a short-term spending bill, but an $81 billion disaster aid bill died in the Senate after winning passage in the House.
December 22, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Congress Offers More Short-Term CHIP Funding As At Least One State Prepares to Use Its Own
Colorado lawmakers on Thursday approved emergency funds to keep alive a health insurance program for children and pregnant women, amid concerns that a short-term extension of the program's funding OK'd by Congress won't arrive soon enough to help.
December 22, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
If we get into those emails and executives are in the chain knowing what they’ve unleashed on the American public, I’m going to kick it over to a criminal lawsuit. I’ve been to too many funerals.
Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood, who in 2015 was the first state AG to sue a prescription drug company over their role in the opioid epidemic. Since then, more than 100 cities, counties and states have filed similar lawsuits.
December 21, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
1962 and 1963
Last time, until recently, that life expectancy in the U.S. dropped two years in a row. It declined in 2015 and again in 2016, partially fueled by a 21 percent increase in fatal drug overdoses.
December 21, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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