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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.

Who Said That
People overdose every day in Missouri. I’m not going to give up.
Missouri state Rep. Holly Rehder, who sponsored a now-dead bill this year to establish a prescription drug monitoring program in an effort to crack down on the opioid crisis. It's the only state that doesn't have one.
May 16, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
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Students packed into one classroom in New Jersey because the elementary school can't afford to build walls and instead creates classroom boundaries using pieces of furniture. Since 2010, two-thirds of the state's school districts haven't been getting the funding they were promised.
May 16, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Planned Parenthood Watching Trump Administration's Response to Texas Request
Testing their luck with the Trump administration, Texas officials are asking for federal money to help support the state's women's health program even though it has barred Planned Parenthood as a provider.
May 16, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Does California's Autograph Law Hinder Freedom of Speech?
With the support of consumer advocates, film studios and police chiefs, California lawmakers decided last year, without a dissenting vote, to require sellers of autographed collectibles to include a certificate authenticating the signature or face substantial financial penalties.
May 16, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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'Unprecedented' Political Power Structure Created by South Carolina Firm's 'Tentacles'
In South Carolina one political consulting firm represents more than 25 lawmakers, a couple of large state agencies and a quartet of the state's biggest corporations.
May 16, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Missouri, Only State Without Prescription Drug Monitoring, Rejects the Idea Again
After months of debate, Missouri remains the only state in the country without a prescription drug monitoring program.
May 16, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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School Districts Worry About GOP's Proposed Medicaid Changes
For school districts still getting their financial footing after the Great Recession, the Medicaid changes being advanced as part of the health care overhaul are sounding familiar alarms.
May 16, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Critics of Voter ID Laws Get a Victory, But It May Not Last
Opponents of strict voter ID laws won a closely watched, but perhaps temporary, victory Monday, as the Supreme Court declined to revive a 4-year-old North Carolina measure.
May 15, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
This event involving torches at night in Lee Park was either profoundly ignorant or was designed to instill fear in our minority populations in a way that hearkens back to the days of the KKK.
Charlottesville, Va., Mayor Mike Signer, after white nationalists carrying torches marched through the city this weekend in protest of its decision to sell a Confederate statue.
May 15, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
300,000
Eligible voters in Wisconsin who lacked a valid photo ID and may have been blocked from casting a ballot in November, the first presidential election with the state's strict voter ID law in effect.
May 15, 2017
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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