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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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New Mexico Governor Lays Out Lengthy Plans for Short Session
Gov. Susana Martinez on Tuesday set forth a sweeping agenda for the short 2016 legislative session, calling on lawmakers to get tough on crime, further stiffen DWI penalties, implement her education and economic development proposals and to finally pass a Real ID driver's license bill that has been a touchstone of her gubernatorial tenure.
January 20, 2016
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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To Fund Education, Scott Walker Looks to Employee Benefits
Seeking to rehabilitate his sagging standing in the state, Gov. Scott Walker pledged Tuesday to spend more money on public education using savings from changes to state employee health plans.
January 20, 2016
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Why Iowa's GOP Governor Wants Ted Cruz to Lose
The Republican governor of Iowa urged Tuesday that his state defeat Ted Cruz in the crucial Iowa precinct caucuses in less than two weeks, blasting the Texas senator for opposing federal support for ethanol.
January 20, 2016
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Christie Vetoes Gun, Smoking, Tax-Exemption Bills
Gov. Christie on Tuesday acted on more than 100 pieces of legislation, vetoing bills that would ban firearms for certain criminals, raise the smoking age, and preserve nonprofit hospitals' property-tax exemption.
January 20, 2016
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Kasich Takes 2nd Place Behind Trump in New Hampshire
Exactly three weeks before the nation's first presidential primary, Ohio Gov. John Kasich became the first GOP candidate not named Trump to reach 20 percent in any independent poll of New Hampshire this year.
January 20, 2016
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Gov. Snyder to Flint Residents: Government Failed You
Facing the biggest crisis of his five years as governor, demands for his resignation and even calls for his criminal prosecution, Gov. Rick Snyder accepted major responsibility for the Flint drinking water catastrophe in his State of the State address Tuesday and set out short-term plans and long-term promises to put things right.
January 20, 2016
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Obama Meets With Flint Mayor About Water Crisis
President Barack Obama met Tuesday with Flint Mayor Karen Weaver to discuss high concentrations of lead found in her city's drinking water, offering continued logistical and technical support for efforts to address the crisis and dispatching an official from the Department of Health and Human Services to coordinate federal response.
January 20, 2016
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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U.S. Supreme Court to Decide Fate of Obama's Immigration Plan
The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to decide the legal fate of President Barack Obama's sweeping immigration program and rule on whether he has the power to offer "lawful presence" and a work permit to more than 4 million people living here illegally.
January 19, 2016
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Protesters Arrested After Shutting Down Bay Bridge on MLK Day
California Highway Patrol officers arrested 25 demonstrators after the group used the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday Monday to chain themselves and their vehicles across all five westbound lanes of the Bay Bridge, bringing traffic to a standstill as they demanded racial equity.
January 19, 2016
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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In Jail, Tablets Calm and Educate Inmates
On the surface, the notion seems preposterous: Hand out Samsung computer tablets to dozens of Sacramento County Main Jail inmates.
January 19, 2016
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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