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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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5 Major Challenges Facing Kentucky's New Governor
After a day of celebration Tuesday on becoming Kentucky's 62nd governor, Republican Matt Bevin faces the stark reality of governing a challenged state.
December 08, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Dannel Malloy Takes Over Democratic Governors Group
Connecticut's governor, Dannel P. Malloy, has been auditioning for this moment.
December 08, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Rahm Emanuel Scrutinized as Feds Announce Investigation of Chicago Police
The U.S. Justice Department announced a civil rights investigation Monday into the use of deadly force by Chicago cops, prompting Mayor Rahm Emanuel to make what just days ago would have been considered a stunning admission: He needs the federal government's help to clean up his police department.
December 08, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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U.S. Supreme Court Gives States, Localities Green Light on Gun Control
The Supreme Court gave an apparent green light Monday to lawmakers who want to restrict the sale of guns such as the rapid-fire weapons that have been used in the recent wave of mass shootings from Paris to San Bernardino, Calif.
December 08, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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In Symbolic Move, Congress Votes to Repeal Obamacare
This time, the vote in Congress to send a bill repealing the Affordable Care Act to President Barack Obama's desk was supposed to be easy.
December 07, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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The Newest Ally Against Climate Change: New York's Pension Fund
The state pension fund is more than doubling investments in clean energy and sustainability, including a new $2 billion fund that will put more money behind green energy and less in companies responsible for large emissions of climate-changing greenhouse gases, Comptroller Tom DiNapoli said Friday.
December 07, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Chicago's Flawed System for Investigating Police Shootings
It is a system seemingly designed to fail.
December 07, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Ferguson, Baltimore and Now Chicago Police Will Get Federal Review
The U.S. Department of Justice will open a wide-ranging civil rights investigation into the Chicago Police Department after the release of a video showing a patrolman's fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald and police reports from the officers on the scene that conflict with that video.
December 07, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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San Bernardino Attack Defies Both Parties' Solutions to Gun Violence and Terrorism
The massacre in San Bernardino, Calif., now being investigated as a terrorist attack, has reshaped the political debate in an election that strategists in both parties had thought would be fought primarily over domestic policy.
December 07, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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The Daily Life of Abortion Providers: Stalking, Hate Mail and Intimidating Protesters
Since 1993, 11 people have been killed in abortion-related attacks — doctors, clinic staff, and last week, a police officer and two visitors in the line of fire at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs.
December 07, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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