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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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After Train Derails, NYC Subway System in State of Emergency
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo declared a state of emergency for the MTA on Thursday and pledged the state would "commit an additional $1 billion" to the agency's capital plan as part of an effort to expedite improvements to New York City's embattled transit system.
June 30, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Trump's Voter Fraud Committee Asks All 50 States for Every Voters' Personal Data
President Trump's commission investigating alleged voter fraud in the 2016 elections has asked states for a list of the names, party affiliations, addresses and voting histories of all voters, if state laws allow it to be public.
June 30, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Texas Leads Request for Trump to End DACA Immigration Program
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and officials from nine other states on Thursday urged the Trump administration to end an Obama-era program that’s allowed hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants to live and work in the country without fear of being deported.
June 30, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
Twice
Times that one man has rammed his car into a Ten Commandments monument outside of a state capitol. He did it in Oklahoma in 2014, and again in Arkansas this week.
June 29, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
These guys aren’t deadbeats. They’re dead broke.
Kevin McGuire, the social services commissioner for Westchester County, N.Y., which is piloting a debt forgiveness program that incentives parents who owe child support to get a good job and keep up with their payments. One study showed that 70 percent of late child support payments were owed by parents who made no more than $10,000 a year.
June 29, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Why Cap-and-Trade Supporters Can Breathe a Sigh of Relief
California's cap-and-trade law, which requires companies to buy permits to emit climate-changing greenhouse gases into the air, survived a legal challenge Wednesday when the state Supreme Court turned down an appeal by business groups.
June 29, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Why Flint Is Being Sued by the Agency Partially Responsible for the Water Crisis
The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality sued the City of Flint today over the City Council's foot-dragging in approving Detroit's Great Lakes Water Authority as its long-term drinking water source.
June 29, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Destruction of Ten Commandments Monument in Arkansas Spotlights Gray Areas of Secularism
The 6-foot-tall stone monument engraved with the Ten Commandments _ a capstone of sorts to years of debate in Arkansas over the separation of church and state _ was erected with little pomp on the lush grounds of the state Capitol.
June 29, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Perjury Charge Dropped Against Trooper Who Stopped Sandra Bland
The former Texas trooper who stopped Sandra Bland on a Waller County roadside in 2015 had the criminal charge against him dismissed Wednesday, stirring painful emotions from Bland's family members who had hoped the case would go to trial.
June 29, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Citizens Review Board: Decision to Clear Cop Who Killed Keith Scott Made in Error
Charlotte's Citizens Review Board has determined that there was "substantial evidence of error" in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police's decision that the fatal shooting of Keith Lamont Scott in September was justified.
June 29, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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