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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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A Conversation With Gary Blackmer, One of America's Performance Management Leaders
Gary Blackmer talks about auditing police, changes in the field and the toughest parts of the job.
November 17, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Alaska on the Hunt for a New Prisons Chief
Gov. Bill Walker announced Monday he had accepted the resignation of the commissioner of Alaska's Department of Corrections after release of a scathing report that detailed widespread failures and dysfunction that may have led to deaths in Alaska jails.
November 17, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Baltimore Leaders Claim to Be Better Prepared After Riots
The Baltimore Police Department is better prepared than ever before to handle civil disturbances, given the lessons it learned from the rioting that broke out in April, the mayor and police commissioner said Monday.
November 17, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Maryland Governor Says He's 'Cancer-Free'
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan announced Monday he is "100 percent cancer free."
November 17, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Common Core Suffers Defeat in West Virginia
The West Virginia Board of Education Friday moved forward with a repeal of the state's current Common Core-based K-12 math and English language arts standards, in order to replace them with a version the state schools superintendent says isn't based off the national standards blueprint.
November 17, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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In Immigration Fight, Texas AG Keeps Information About the Undocumented Secret
A ruling from the Texas Attorney General's office has just made it more difficult to access information about the kinds of crimes undocumented immigrants have committed in Dallas County — and whether local officials turned those offenders over to federal authorities.
November 17, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Obamacare's Most Popular Plans Offer Poor HIV Drug Coverage
In most states, consumers with HIV or AIDS who buy silver-level plans on the insurance marketplaces find limited coverage of common drug regimens they may need and high out-of-pocket costs, according to a new analysis.
November 17, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Charleston Mayor, Champion for Integration, Prepares to Leave Office After 40 Years
Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr. sat behind the big desk in his formal and stately City Hall office here, with a photo of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on one wall and a portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee staring down from another.
November 16, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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New ACLU App Helps People Record and Report Police
The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico has unveiled the Mobile Justice New Mexico app, a tool that lets New Mexicans use their smart phones to record police or Border Patrol encounters and file reports of law enforcement misconduct.
November 16, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Sex Offender Registry Upheld by Ohio Supreme Court
Requiring convicted sex offenders to register their address with authorities is not cruel and unusual punishment, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled on Thursday in a 7-2 decision in a case from Clark County.
November 16, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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