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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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In Case That Hurt His Campaign, Gillum Not Mentioned in 44-Charge Indictment of Tallahassee Commissioner
Tallahassee City Commissioner Scott Maddox was indicted Wednesday on 44 charges in an FBI corruption investigation that became a key issue in Democrat Andrew Gillum's campaign for Florida governor.
December 13, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
24 years old
Age of Brandon Wentz when he fatally overdosed on heroin and fentanyl last year. He was the mayor of the small Pennsylvania town called Mount Carbon.
December 13, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
This sentence serves as a warning to others in public life. If you engage in public corruption, you will be shown no mercy, and you will go to jail.
U.S. District Court Judge Valerie E. Caproni, who sentenced Alain Kaloyeros, the former president of the SUNY Polytechnic Institute, on Tuesday to three and a half years in prison.
December 13, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
Does Nikolas Cruz deserve to die? Choose the best answer.
Title, and instruction, of a worksheet distributed to students at a high school 10 minutes from Marjory Stoneman Douglas, where Cruz killed 17 people in February. The assignment had questions about the death penalty based on a New York Times articles with the same title.
December 12, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
633%
Increase in homes placed under contract in the Crystal City, Va., area from last November to this November, the month that Amazon announced it would build a new headquarters there.
December 12, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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A 2016 California Law Meant to Prevent Wildfires. Utility Regulators Delayed Enforcing It.
Long before the Camp Fire raced through Northern California, claiming at least 85 lives and all but erasing the Gold Rush town of Paradise, state law required the three big power monopolies to file detailed strategies to prevent wildfires.
December 11, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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In Censorship Settlement, Social Media Critics of Maine Governor Come Out on Top
Good morning from Augusta, where it just got easier to post comments on the governor's Facebook page. The American Civil Liberties Union of Maine has settled its First Amendment lawsuit against Gov. Paul LePage, whom the group said unconstitutionally censored comments on his Facebook page.
December 11, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
The punishments didn’t fit the crimes. ‘Interfering with public transit’ was a Class A misdemeanor, the same as a DUI. And ‘interfering with public transit’ could be anything, including fare evasion.
Shawn Fleek, a spokesperson for OPAL Environmental Justice Oregon, which helped the state rewrite the law to lower the penalty for fare evasion.
December 11, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
22,000
Employees accidentally invited to a potluck hosted by Utah's Department of Corrections. The evite was only meant for 80 people, but a technology glitch sent it to almost the entire state workforce.
December 11, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
You're hurting my son!
What a woman yelled as New York City police officers aggressively pulled and yanked her 1-year-old child out of her arms so they could arrest her on charges of trespassing and resisting arrest for refusing to stand up at a government welfare office where she was renewing her child care benefits. There were no chairs available, so she sat on the floor in the corner.
December 10, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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