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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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Seattle Set to Elect Its First Female Mayor in Almost a Century, But Which?
King County Elections certified the results of Seattle's mayoral primary Tuesday, stamping as official an outcome made clear last week -- Jenny Durkan and Cary Moon will advance to the Nov. 7 general election.
August 16, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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In Redistricting Case, Court Orders Texas to Fix 2 Maps
Federal judges invalidated two Texas congressional districts Tuesday, ruling that they must be fixed by either the Legislature or a federal court.
August 16, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Utah Mayor Wins GOP Primary for Chaffetz's Seat in Congress
Provo Mayor John Curtis has won the Republican primary to replace former Rep. Jason Chaffetz in Utah's 3rd District.
August 16, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Confederate Monuments Quickly and Quietly Taken Down in Baltimore
onfederate statues in Baltimore were removed from their concrete bases overnight, as crews using heavy machinery loaded them onto flat bed trucks and hauled them away, an end to more than a year of indecision surrounding what to do with the memorials.
August 16, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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No Bathroom Bill But New Abortion Laws: What Passed and Failed in Texas' Special Session
It appeared late Tuesday that Texas' legislative special session would end a day earlier than expected with only about half of Gov. Greg Abbott's priorities having passed both the House and the Senate and made it to the governor's desk.
August 16, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
Women don’t plan to be raped. Parents don’t plan for their children to be victims of incest. Asking a woman or a parent to foresee something like that and buy supplemental insurance to cover that horrific possibility is ... ridiculous.
Texas state Rep. Chris Turner, a Democrat, speaking in opposition of a bill that will require women to pay an extra health insurance premium for nonemergency abortions. GOP Gov. Greg Abbott signed the legislation on Tuesday.
August 15, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
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Number of hate groups in California, which is the most of any state. Trailing right behind is Florida (with 63) and Texas (with 55).
August 15, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Climbing Cost of Decades-Old Drugs Threatens to Break Medicaid Bank
Skyrocketing price tags for new drugs to treat rare diseases have stoked outrage nationwide. But hundreds of old, commonly used drugs cost the Medicaid program billions of extra dollars in 2016 vs. 2015, a Kaiser Health News data analysis shows. Eighty of the drugs — some generic and some still carrying brand names — proved more than two decades old.
August 15, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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NAACP's Travel Advisory Is Costing St. Louis Business, Says City
The head of the city's tourism and convention agency said hotels have lost business as a result of a travel advisory issued by the national NAACP last month and that her industry is "being used as a weapon" in the political arena.
August 15, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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'Rape Insurance' Bill Becomes Law in Texas
Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday signed a bill that will require Texas women to pay an extra health insurance premium for non-emergency abortions, one of three abortion-related items the governor placed on lawmakers' agendas for the special session.
August 15, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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