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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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'Fed Up With Politics as Usual,' Maryland Governor Creates 'Emergency' Redistricting Commission
Gov. Larry Hogan created an "emergency" commission on Monday to redraw the borders of Maryland's 6th Congressional District, moving ahead on a new map despite state Attorney General Brian Frosh's appeal of a federal ruling that ordered the redraft.
November 27, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Ex-Pennsylvania AG Headed to Jail After Appeal Fails
After the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear her appeal, disgraced former Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane has exhausted her legal options and must begin serving her jail sentence.
November 27, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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In 'Bridgegate,' Appeals Court Upholds Most Convictions
A three-judge appellate panel in Philadelphia on Tuesday affirmed most of the convictions of two onetime allies of former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie charged in the Bridgegate scandal.
November 27, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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What the First Woman to Lead a New York Legislative Chamber Might Change
Poised to become the state's first female Senate majority leader, state Senate Democratic leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins indicated Monday she will continue a tax on the wealthy.
November 27, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Pay Taxes in Bitcoin? One State Will Let You.
Ohio will become the first state to accept cryptocurrency for tax payments, beginning this week.
November 27, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Shooting at Municipal Building in Pennsylvania Leaves Public Employee Dead
A Paradise Township employee is dead and a man is in custody after a shooting at the municipal building in north-central Monroe County Tuesday morning.
November 27, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
More than 100
Cities where electric scooters have hit the streets.
November 27, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
There are more people coming here, and the only way to solve the problem is people are going to have to start taking up less space.
Jeremiah Adler, founder and chief executive of Up(st)art, which leases property in California, then adds bunk beds or stacked, enclosed "sleeping pods," and rents it out for between $695 and $775 a month in neighborhoods where most studios start at $1,000 a month. "This is the future," he says.
November 27, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
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People still missing more than two weeks after California's "Camp Fire," which was finally fully contained on Sunday. It was the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in the state's history, killing at least 85.
November 26, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
The Mississippi Legislature's professed interest in 'women's health' is pure gaslighting. Its leaders are proud to challenge Roe but choose not to lift a finger to address ... our alarming infant and maternal mortality rate.
District Judge Carlton W. Reeves, in a ruling that permanently blocks one of the strictest abortion laws in the country -- Mississippi's 15-week ban.
November 26, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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