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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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Chicago Cop Sentenced to Prison
A veteran Chicago police officer was sentenced to five years in prison Monday for firing 16 times into a moving vehicle filled with teens, wounding two.
November 21, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Records Reveal Pennsylvania's Election Czar Was Fired. The Reason Remains a Mystery.
The former head of the Pennsylvania Department of State didn't resign on his own but appears to have been ousted by Gov. Wolf, according to newly released documents.
November 21, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Why Virginia Won't Certify Election Results That Could Change Its Balance of Power
Controversy continued to grow Monday over a close House of Delegates race in the Fredericksburg region that could determine control of the chamber.
November 21, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Nebraska Approves Keystone XL Pipeline -- But Sets a New Route
TransCanada Corp. won Nebraska's permission to build its long-delayed Keystone XL crude oil pipeline across the state.
November 21, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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911 Knocked Out by Gas Fire in Michigan County
In the early hours after a massive Monday night fire in the Orion Township-Auburn Hills area knocked out the 911 system for the Oakland County Sheriff's Office, the phone system has been restored.
November 21, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Miami-Dade Obeyed Trump on Immigration. Chicago Didn't. Both Just Got $3M Police Grants.
Miami-Dade and Chicago sit on opposite sides of the debate over sanctuary cities under President Donald Trump: The largest government in South Florida won praise from the president himself for agreeing to detain immigration violators at local jails, while the Windy City is suing the Trump administration to preserve its "sanctuary" status.
November 21, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Trump's Original 'Sanctuary Cities' Order Permanently Blocked
President Trump acted unconstitutionally when he threatened to strip billions of dollars in federal funding from sanctuary cities and counties, like San Francisco and Santa Clara County, that refuse to cooperate fully with immigration officers, a federal judge ruled Monday.
November 21, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
All four demanded that I apologize immediately, and those are women I listen to.
Ohio Supreme Court Justice William O'Neill, who is also running for governor, referring to his two daughters and two sisters who were upset that he boasted on Facebook about having sex with 50 "very attractive women" and decried media "hysteria" over the sexual harassment and assault claims against U.S. Sen. Al Franken and U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore.
November 20, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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The Women Leading the First Study of Diversity in State and Local Government [Episode 15]
"Most local governments are run by white men, so there hasn’t needed to be a conversation about what diversity looks like."
November 20, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
$9/month
Proposed cost of podcasts -- which are free to the public -- for prisoners in Indiana. The tablets they would use to download them, though, would be supplied free of charge to the state.
November 20, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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