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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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ACC Follows NCAA's Lead and Pulls Championship Games From North Carolina
The Atlantic Coast Conference has pulled this year's football title game from Charlotte amid the ongoing firestorm over North Carolina's House Bill 2, the latest sports-related blow stemming from the controversial law.
September 15, 2016
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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D.C. Police Update Body-Camera Policy After Fatal Shooting Not Caught on Video
D.C. police will be required to confirm to dispatchers that they have turned on their body cameras when they respond to a call or interact with citizens, a change ordered Wednesday after a fatal police shooting in which a camera was not activated until after the incident, city officials said.
September 15, 2016
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Washington Governor Way Ahead of Challenger in Fundraising
Gov. Jay Inslee enters the final months of his re-election bid with a campaign-cash pile dwarfing that of GOP challenger Bill Bryant.
September 14, 2016
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Despite Veto, Advocates Continue Push to End Diaper and Tampon Taxes in California
Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed bills Tuesday that would have repealed the sales tax on diapers and tampons, saying that they would cost the state budget too much money. Now the two legislators who authored the legislation have an idea they say will make that argument irrelevant: Tax candy instead.
September 14, 2016
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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A First in 4 Decades, Tennessee House Ousts One of Its Own
For the first time in 36 years and just the third time in Tennessee's 220-year history, members of the General Assembly on Tuesday ousted a lawmaker from their midst as unfit to serve.
September 14, 2016
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Results Too Close to Call for GOP Governor's Race in New Hampshire
An unexpectedly strong showing throughout the state had first-term state Rep. Frank Edelblut running neck-and-neck with Executive Councilor Chris Sununu in a tight race for the Republican gubernatorial nomination that saw Manchester Mayor Ted Gatsas finish third.
September 14, 2016
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Van Ostern Wins Democratic Nomination for New Hampshire Governor
Promising to take New Hampshire on its "next step forward," Executive Councilor Colin Van Ostern accepted his party's nomination at the Millyard Museum in Manchester Tuesday night.
September 14, 2016
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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With GOP Nomination for Governor, Bonini Now Looks to Break Democrats' Dominance in Delaware
State Sen. Colin Bonini brushed off a challenge from political newcomer Lacey Lafferty in the Republican primary for governor Tuesday, setting the stage to challenge Democrats' dominance of statewide offices in the November general election.
September 14, 2016
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Police Chief Considered Pioneer in Opioid Crisis Put on Paid Leave
Gloucester police Chief Leonard Campanello, who rose to national prominence for spearheading a treatment-based approach to handling the city's opioid crisis, was placed on paid leave yesterday amid an unspecified investigation, the city's mayor said.
September 14, 2016
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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'Whose Blood Will Be Shed?' If Clinton Wins, Asks Kentucky Governor
Democratic candidates for federal office in Kentucky criticized Gov. Matt Bevin on Tuesday for suggesting last weekend that blood might someday need to be shed if Hillary Clinton wins the presidential election, going so far as to suggest impeachment.
September 14, 2016
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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