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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.

News in Numbers
29%
Reduction in toxic emissions from local plants when they were covered by local newspapers, according to a study. Other research shows that newspaper closures can lead to more polarization, fewer candidates and a rise in municipal borrowing costs.
April 24, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
31%
Median rise in renters since 2000 in cities with at least 100,000 residents.
April 23, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
Those nurses ... probably play cards for a considerable amount of the day.
Washington state Sen. Maureen Walsh, a Republican, in response to a bill that would require nurses to get breaks and protect them against mandatory overtime. Her comments sparked online outrage among nurses nationwide.
April 23, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
65%
Increase in the number of paid firefighters since the 1980s even though the number of overall firefighters dropped 5 percent. With fewer volunteer firefighters, departments have had to hire more paid ones.
April 22, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
We as men also have a responsibility to change the diapers of our children.
Connecticut state Sen. Dennis Bradley, a Democrat who introduced a bill that would require new publicly-accessible buildings to have diaper-changing tables accessible to men and women. New York passed a similar law this year, which was the first of its kind in the country.
April 22, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
682
New residents that Alameda County, Calif., which includes Oakland, gained last year -- much lower than the more than 13,000 new residents it had regularly gained for years. It reflects a larger trend of migration to the West and the South slowing down after years of explosive growth.
April 19, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
A fireman need not obtain the informed consent of the owner before extinguishing a house fire. Vaccination is known to extinguish the fire of contagion.
Judge Lawrence Knipel, in his dismissal last week of a lawsuit against New York City's emergency requirement for some residents to get the measles vaccine. There has been an outbreak of the once-eradicated disease in certain parts of the city.
April 19, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Archive
Amid Measles Outbreak, Washington State Poised to End Some Vaccine Exemptions
Spurred by a measles outbreak that has sickened 74 kids in Washington this year and the biggest national resurgence of the disease in at least five years, the Washington state Senate late Wednesday voted to remove parents' ability to exempt their children from a vaccination for personal or philosophical reasons. But the stricter rules would apply only to one vaccine -- the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccination.
April 18, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Trump's Offshore Drilling Plan Runs Into Bipartisan Resistance in South Carolina
The S.C. Senate took a major step Wednesday in the fight against oil drilling along the S.C. coast, agreeing overwhelmingly to block the petroleum industry from establishing refineries, pipes and other infrastructure needed to support drilling.
April 18, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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'Sanctuary Cities' Ban Advances in Florida
Though it faced a near death in the Senate Rules Committee, a contentious bill aimed at banning so-called "sanctuary cities" is headed to the Senate floor.
April 18, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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