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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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Proposals submitted to Amazon from cities, counties and states that want the online retailer to build its second U.S. headquarters in their region. Some offered the company billions of dollars worth of tax incentives.
October 24, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Child Deaths Spike After Illinois Privatizes Child Services Program
The 5-year-old girl was found dead in the bathtub with shallow water framing her cherubic face and open eyes.
October 24, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Ed Murray Is Gone, But His Legal Troubles Are Still Costing Seattle
A Kent man who earlier this year withdrew a lawsuit that helped expose a wider alleged child-sex-abuse scandal that drove Ed Murray out of public office has refiled a legal case against Seattle's former mayor.
October 24, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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After Violent Prison Deaths in North Carolina, Top State Official Steps Down
David Guice, a top North Carolina prisons leader who oversaw an extraordinarily deadly time for the state's correctional officers, is stepping down from his post.
October 24, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Why Some Cities Are Buying Trailer Parks
Here in the heart of one of Colorado’s most expensive cities, Isabel Sanchez bought a mobile home seven years ago for just $6,000. Her four-bedroom bungalow now sits on a lot she rents for $355 a month.
October 24, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Citing Supreme Court Ruling, Judge Lets Kentucky Sex Offenders Back on Facebook
Kentucky's registered sex offenders have the constitutional right to use Facebook, Twitter and other online social media, a federal judge ruled Friday.
October 24, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Harley-Riding Illinois Governor's Unconventional Re-Election Video
Gov. Bruce Rauner kicked off his re-election bid Monday with a campaign video featuring the Republican politician clad in a helmet and black leather motorcycle gear, riding his Harley-Davidson alone past a sometimes-desolate landscape of urban, rural and suburban Illinois.
October 24, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Iowa Drops Obamacare Waiver Request
Thousands of Iowans face paying significantly more for their individual health insurance premiums -- or going without coverage -- after a state effort to win federal waivers of some Affordable Care Act provisions to prop up Iowa's collapsing marketplace ended Monday.
October 24, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Chicago Offers Amazon $2 Billion to Locate HQ2 There
Billing Illinois and Chicago as an "extraordinary opportunity for Amazon" to locate its second headquarters, state and city political leaders entered the nationwide competition to land the online retail giant's 50,000 jobs by offering $2 billion in incentives while hinting they were willing to dig even deeper, sources familiar with the bid confirmed Monday.
October 24, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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HHS Secretary or Not, Seema Verma Could Redefine Medicaid
She helped craft Mike Pence’s conservative approach to expanding Medicaid in Indiana. Now, the CMS administrator is one of President Trump's top contenders to replace Tom Price.
October 23, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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