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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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Women Are Scarce in Governors' and AG Offices. Democrats Aim to Change That.
Hillary Clinton’s defeat last year sparked an intense debate about the role of gender in American politics, but the presidential race overshadowed a deeper structural challenge for Democrats: They have a scarcity of female officeholders in state capitals.
September 19, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Foxconn Final: Scott Walker Signs $3 Billion Incentives Deal, One of the Largest Ever for a Foreign Company
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker Monday approved up to $3 billion in subsidies for a flat screen plant, binding the state's economic hopes and his own political future to the investment proposed by an Asian electronics giant.
September 19, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Key Governor Backs Obamacare Repeal Bill
A last-ditch Republican push to roll back the Affordable Care Act appeared to pick up momentum Monday even as opposition from leading patient advocates and health care organizations mounted, setting the stage for another potentially dramatic Senate vote on the future of the 2010 law, often called Obamacare.
September 19, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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An HR Expert's Dos and Donts of Managing
Sometimes you have to be the bad cop. Throwing out stereotypes about millennials is a good idea, too.
September 18, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Pennsylvania Defaults on $1 Billion Worth of Debt
Most Pennsylvanians avoided the big budget hurt when the state ran out of money Friday to cover $2.5 billion in bills amid a months-long budget stalemate in the state Capitol.
September 18, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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NSFW: New York Governor Restricts What State Workers Can Say About Immigration
State agencies including the State Police won't be allowed to ask a person about his or her immigration status in most cases, under an executive order issued by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo Friday.
September 18, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Attica Scott Is Tired of Being the 'Angry Black Woman' [Episode 11]
The first black woman elected to the Kentucky state House in almost 20 years says she gets the label sometimes for simply speaking her mind.
September 18, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
Whose streets? Our streets!
Chants that police officers were heard saying this weekend shortly after arresting protesters in St. Louis. The same chant is typically used by protesters. The city has been dealing with protests since Friday, when a former St. Louis cop was acquitted of murdering Anthony Lamar Smith, a black drug suspect.
September 18, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
Oct. 15
Day that Baltimore's bike-share service will reopen. It shut down this weekend because so many bikes were stolen that the company is installing additional locking devices.
September 18, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Judge Blocks Trump's Funding Rules for 'Sanctuary Cities'
In a ruling with national significance, a federal judge in Chicago on Friday blocked the Trump administration's rules requiring so-called sanctuary cities to cooperate with immigration agents in order to get a public safety grant.
September 18, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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