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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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Planned Parenthood Wins Abortion Case as Divided Supreme Court Refuses Appeal
A divided Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear an abortion-related case from conservative states that sought to defund Planned Parenthood.
December 10, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
Dec. 13
Day that Pennsylvania is distributing naloxone, the drug that reverses opioid overdoses, to the public for free at 80 select locations -- mostly government health offices.
December 10, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Lauren Matsumoto
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A Cautionary Tale for the Newly Elected
By the end of her first term, Hawaii state Rep. Lauren Matsumoto was hospitalized for exhaustion from trying to "do it all."
December 10, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Medicaid Expansion Ruling Means 'End Is in Sight' for Maine's Health-Care Uncertainty
The judge deciding the Medicaid expansion lawsuit has denied a stay request by the outgoing LePage administration, but set a new Feb. 1 deadline to begin enrolling people in the expanded health insurance program.
December 07, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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New York State Lawmakers on Track to Be Highest-Paid in the Country
Even while some suggest its unconstitutional, government reform groups praised a commission's decision to raise state lawmakers salaries for the first time in 20 years while also imposing restrictions on outside income and legislative stipends.
December 07, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Deadliest Wildfire in California History May Have Been Started by Faulty Utility Hook
For weeks a PG&E transmission tower northeast of Paradise has loomed as a possible culprit in the Camp fire, triggering a slew of lawsuits and official investigations.
December 07, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
There's a lot of interest with what's happening with Trump, but when you look at what's happening in states and particularly Wisconsin, you see how easy it is to have what amounts to minority rule.
Dan Kaufman, author of The Fall of Wisconsin, on the GOP legislature's lame-duck attempt to strip power from the incoming Democratic governor.
December 07, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
113 million
Americans with an immediate family member who has been incarcerated in jail or prison, which represents nearly half the population, according to a first-of-its-kind study.
December 07, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Gone Before He Got There: Newly Elected Rhode Island Lawmaker Won't Take Seat After Campaign Cover-Up
A rising young star in Rhode Island Democratic politics came crashing to earth Wednesday as state Representative-elect Laufton Ascencao said he would not take his seat in the General Assembly under mounting pressure from fellow progressives for fabricating a story and documents about his help for local candidates.
December 06, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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The Supreme Court 'Double Jeopardy' Case That Could Impact the Mueller Investigation
The Supreme Court justices sounded unwilling Thursday to overturn a long-standing precedent that allows a state and the federal government to prosecute a person for the same crime _ despite the constitutional ban on "double jeopardy."
December 06, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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