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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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Largest U.S. Pension Fund Settles With Moody's in Ratings Case
Moody's Corp. will pay $130 million to the California Public Employees' Retirement System to settle allegations that the ratings agency acted negligently by giving top scores to ultimately toxic investments that cost the pension fund hundreds of millions of dollars, CalPERS said Wednesday.
March 10, 2016
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Arizona Bans Voter Outreach Groups From Collecting Early Ballots
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey signed a proposal Wednesday that makes it illegal in most cases to collect and drop off someone else's ballot.
March 10, 2016
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Kentucky Lawmakers Kill Bill to Abolish Death Penalty
A state House committee strongly rejected a bill Wednesday that would abolish the death penalty, saying the state needed to retain capital punishment as a sentencing option.
March 10, 2016
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Did Lawmakers Hit the Raw Milk Too Hard? Investigation Underway.
A West Virginia lawmaker who passed out cups of raw milk to celebrate passage of a raw milk-related bill says the unpasteurized beverage had nothing to do with an intestinal virus that plagued a number of House of Delegates members and staffers last weekend.
March 10, 2016
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Snyder Asks State to Pay His Legal Bills in Flint Crisis
The costs of the Flint drinking water crisis continued to climb Tuesday as Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder asked the State Administrative Board to approve contracts worth up to $1.2 million to cover his outside legal bills and Attorney General Bill Schuette asked for approval of a $1.5 million contract with attorney Todd Flood to cover the cost of his investigation into the public health disaster.
March 10, 2016
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Texas Voter ID Law Gets Another Chance in Court
The full U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals agreed to take up the Texas voter ID case Wednesday, adding another chapter to the law’s convoluted journey through the federal court system.
March 10, 2016
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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High-Speed Rail Wins Key Legal Victory in California
The California bullet train has won a court victory in a key lawsuit that sought to stop the $64-billion project because it allegedly violated restrictions voters imposed in 2008.
March 10, 2016
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Despite Near Record 37-Hour Filibuster, Missouri Senate OKs Anti-Gay Religious Bill
Just after 5 a.m. Wednesday, sleep-deprived Republican senators were huddled behind closed doors.
March 10, 2016
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Virginia Becomes First State to Regulate Fantasy Sports
A first-of-its-kind bill to regulate both daily and seasonlong fantasy football, basketball and baseball contests, among others, has been signed into law in Virginia.
March 09, 2016
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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After Crude Conspiracy Theorist Wins, Texas County GOP Looks for Ways to Oust Him
At a packed Travis County GOP executive committee meeting Tuesday night, it took less than a minute for someone to acknowledge the elephant not in the room.
March 09, 2016
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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