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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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Bill that the husband of Oregon Gov. Kate Brown sent to President Trump after he cleaned up a national park's bathroom. Park employees are among the hundreds of thousands of furloughed during the government shutdown.
January 15, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Census Citizenship Question Blocked by Judge
A federal judge blocked the Trump administration's plan to put a question about citizenship on the 2020 census, which will help determine U.S. elections, congressional seats and federal funding decisions for a decade.
January 15, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
Education is a right! That is why we have to fight!
Chant from teachers in Los Angeles, who went on strike Monday. It's the first strike the nation's second-largest school district has seen since 1989.
January 14, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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5 parts per billion
Lead allowed in bottled water under FDA regulations. Meanwhile, the EPA only requires municipal water systems to alert customers if samples exceed 15 ppb, and the agency recommended a threshold of only 20 ppb for its voluntary school testing program.
January 14, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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So-called donor states, meaning their taxpayers pay more in federal taxes than their state receives back in federal funding.
January 11, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
I'm a Jewish precinct chair. Does this mean I'm next?
John Seidenstein, after a small group of precinct chairs in Texas tried last week to oust the Tarrant County Republican Party's vice chairman, Shahid Shafi, because he is Muslim.
January 11, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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7.1 million
Job openings in the U.S. in October, which was about 1 million more than the number of unemployed workers. The Midwest, Northeast, South and West all had more jobs available than jobless.
January 10, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
Way to ruin an entertaining @Imaginedragons half-time concert with the weird rantings of a tired, has-been like @LilTunechi... One act still rising...The other, not so much...
Tweet from Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, who apparently is not a fan of rapper Lil Wayne who performed at the college football national championship game.
January 10, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
Fentanyl is stronger, you need less of it, and it’s cheaper. So why wouldn’t I, as somebody with limited funds, want to spend my money on something that’s a better value and therefore a better product?
Kristen Marshall, who runs a drug testing program for the Harm Reduction Coalition, conveying the thinking of someone who intentionally uses fentanyl, which is responsible for many deadly opioid overdoses.
January 09, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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January 20
Last day for states to request emergency food stamps funding from the federal government. The Trump administration announced that it can fund the program through February, if the government shutdown continues that long, but the money has to be distributed within 30 days of the shutdown's start.
January 09, 2019
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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