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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.

News in Numbers
More than 2,000
Fires started by equipment from California's three largest utilities over the course of three years.
January 29, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
95,000
Voters that Texas may purge because they may not be U.S. citizens. This is the first of what will be a monthly process by the Secretary of State's office of using new technology to identify potential non-citizens who have registered to vote. Voter advocacy groups argue that the method the state is using is problematic.
January 28, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
If mayors were calling the shots, you would get comprehensive immigration reform in a day.
Mayor Jorge Elorza of Providence, R.I. His remarks were made when the border wall dispute had kept the federal government partially closed for more than a month. Now, the White House and Congress have three weeks to work out a border security deal -- or potentially face another shutdown.
January 28, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
After years of perceived tolerance regarding enforcement, speed limits have lost the concept of ‘limit.’
Tara Casanova Powell, an independent researcher for the Governors Highway Safety Association, which released a report showing that the proportion of traffic deaths related to speeding has remained steady at about 26 percent since the beginning of the millennium. The report partially blamed lax enforcement.
January 25, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
$3.3 million
Settlement New York City gave the family of Kalief Browder, who killed himself at home after being jailed for three years -- much of it in solitary confinement -- for charges that were eventually dropped of stealing another teen's backpack. His family couldn't afford the $3,000 bail.
January 25, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Archive
Republican Party Shrinks in California as Lawmaker Switches
San Diego Assemblyman Brian Maienschein, who has served in the Legislature for six years, announced Thursday that he has left the California Republican Party and re-registered as a Democrat in a move that further shrinks GOP influence in Sacramento.
January 24, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Archive
After Blackface Photos Surface, Florida Secretary of State Resigns
Former Seminole County elections chief Michael Ertel resigned as Florida secretary of state Thursday after photos emerged of him wearing blackface as a Hurricane "Katrina victim" at a Halloween party in 2005.
January 24, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
The only people who love you as much as your family are your fellow mayors.
David Holt, the Republican mayor of Oklahoma City, at the U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting in Washington, D.C., this week.
January 24, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
16,000
Children in Ohio in social services' custody. The state has launched a public awareness campaign to increase interest in foster care and adoption.
January 24, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
We can't wait for Congress to act. States must lead in this fight. As state legislative sessions begin, we commit to supporting survivors and working to address sexual harassment and violence in our workplaces, our schools, and every place it occurs.
Letter signed by nearly 300 state lawmakers from 40 states taking the #20statesby2020 pledge, which aims to strengthen the legal support and protection for victims of sexual harassment and violence in at least 20 states by 2020.
January 23, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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