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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.

News in Numbers
129
Openly gay and transgender people who will be serving in state legislatures come January, which is a record high. Before the midterms, there were only 119.
November 21, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
I teach middle school because when I was in eighth grade on 9/11/2001, that was the day I received my first death threat. It was in my locker. It was shoved in there. My teachers did nothing.
Shifa Bhatti, a Pakistani-American teacher in Texas
November 21, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
164 in 35 states
People who have become ill from consuming turkey in the past year, as of Nov. 5. Health officials have yet to pinpoint the salmonella outbreak to a single source.
November 20, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
I don’t want you to think I’m picking on you because we’re part of the master race.
Leavenworth County Commissioner Louis Klemp, who is white, talking to a black woman at a public hearing. The comment led Kansas GOP Gov. Jeff Colyer to call for Klemp's resignation.
November 20, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
$12.74 for every $1 spent
Return on investment the city of Philadelphia would get from putting $3.5 million a year toward legal services for low-income renters facing eviction. It would elicit $45.2 million in annual savings, according to the Philadelphia Bar Association.
November 19, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
Folks can go to the San Diego Zoo to see the endangered pandas and then visit San Diego City Hall to see one of the last California Republicans.
San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer, a Republican, joking about the state of his political party. In the midterm election, the GOP lost every statewide office in California, and Democrats regained their supermajority in the legislature.
November 19, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib
Governing Podcasts
Year of the Woman? Not So Fast.
An expert on women in politics dissects the 2018 midterms.
November 19, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
I don’t agree, obviously, with her politics. I just think she qualifies as significant.
Texas school board member Marty Rowley, a Republican, who supports adding Hillary Clinton back into the state's U.S. history curriculum after she was removed earlier this year.
November 16, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
$2 trillion
Total state spending for fiscal 2018, which is a record high. The increase is largely driven by higher income tax revenues that resulted from last year's federal tax changes.
November 16, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
20,667
DUI convictions that could be thrown out in New Jersey because a state trooper tampered with the sobriety tests.
November 15, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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