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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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15-State Lawsuit Over DACA Aims to Use Trump's Words Against Him
A group of Democratic-led states is leading a legal challenge to President Trump's planned repeal of a program allowing nearly 800,000 young undocumented immigrants to remain in the United States -- and just as in the court fight over the president's proposed travel ban, the challengers want to use his ethnic broadsides against him.
September 07, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Obamacare Hearing Highlights Different Priorities of Insurance Commissioners and Congress
A key Senate committee Wednesday launched a set of hearings intended to lead to a short-term, bipartisan bill to shore up the troubled individual health insurance market, but a diverse group of state insurance commissioners united around some solutions that were not necessarily on the table.
September 07, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Marijuana Ads Banned From Las Vegas Airport
Clark County commissioners voted unanimously today to ban the possession or advertisement of legal marijuana at McCarran International Airport and other properties overseen by the county's aviation division.
September 07, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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School Voucher Measure Makes 2018 Ballot in Arizona
A coalition of parents and public-education advocates gathered enough signatures to let voters decide whether Arizona moves forward with or rejects a massive expansion of the state's school-voucher program.
September 07, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Kasich Among Prominent Republicans Urging Supreme Court to End Gerrymandering
Ohio Republican Gov. John Kasich has joined the legal fight against gerrymandering, the political map-drawing process geared toward creating congressional and statehouse districts that sharply favor one party over the other.
September 06, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Candidate Touts Being 'White' as a Qualification for Mayor in North Carolina
The chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party Tuesday condemned a Facebook post from a Charlotte Republican mayoral candidate who listed one of her qualifications as being "white."
September 06, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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As Irma Approaches, Florida Sheriff Threatens to Arrest People in Shelters With Warrants
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd is threatening to jail wanted people seeking shelter due to Hurricane Irma.
September 06, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
Less than half
Households with incomes under $20,000 that have internet access.
September 06, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
VOTE FOR ME! REPUBLICAN & SMART, WHITE, TRADITIONAL.
Facebook post by Kimberley Paige Barnette, a candidate in Charlotte, N.C.'s mayoral race.
September 06, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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California Lawmakers Defend DACA, Promise to Fight Trump's Decision
President Trump's decision to abandon existing protections for young men and women in the United States without legal status drew a sharp rebuke from the administration of Gov. Jerry Brown and other California officials Tuesday, with some suggesting the state take its own extraordinary efforts to keep those immigrants from being deported.
September 06, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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