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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.

Who Said That
What does Netflix care if it loses 5,000 people in Kentucky? That’s not worth paying extra money for.
Christopher Mitchell, director of the Community Broadband Networks Initiative at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, on how the repeal of net neutrality regulations could hurt the more than 100 cities that have their own broadband networks and are in direct competition with giants like Verizon.
December 19, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
553,742
Homeless people in America in 2016, which is a 1 percent increase from the year before and the first time the national count went up since 2010.
December 19, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
The privacy that the aging boomers really valued while raising their kids, now they’re beginning to question that. If they’re retired, suddenly that privacy can seem lonely.
Ellen Dunham-Jones, director of the urban design program at Georgia Tech University and a leading authority on suburban evolution.
December 19, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
7 years old
Age that kids are required to start school in 14 states. In one of them, Indiana, the top education official wants to lower the compulsory school age to 5 years old.
December 19, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
36
Number of races for governor this year. Republicans have 26 offices to defend, Democrats have nine, and one governor up for reelection is an independent.
December 19, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
$357,000
State funding for New Year's Eve security in Las Vegas this year, which is almost triple the amount Nevada spent the year before. The increased vigilance follows the October mass shooting in the city that left 58 concertgoers dead.
December 19, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
Mayor Lee was like Beyoncé with a mustache.
London Breed, the acting mayor of San Francisco, talking about her predecessor, Ed Lee, who died of a heart attack last week. During a memorial service, she remarked on his celebrity-like status in San Francisco and in China.
December 19, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
They used to be governors first and Democrats or Republicans second. Now, they're Democrats or Republicans first and governors second.
Ray Scheppach, a former executive director of the National Governors Association, on the increasing partisanship among governors.
December 19, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
64
Official death toll in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria. But on Monday, the island's governor ordered a recount because investigations from news outlets have found that the number of fatalities could actually exceed 1,000.
December 19, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Archive
Technical Issues Have Left Thousands of Illinois Families Without Food Stamps Since November
Tens of thousands of Illinois households aren't receiving federal food stamp benefits leading up to the holidays because of problems with a state computer system.
December 19, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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