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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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Private Money Saves Birth Control Program in Colorado
A Colorado birth control program that has cut unintended pregnancies and abortions by nearly half since 2009 will stay alive for at least one more year thanks to $2 million in donations from private foundations.
August 31, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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40 Years After Alaska, Obama Renames Tallest Peak in America
North America's tallest peak is getting a new name as the administration resolves a decades-long dispute between Alaska and Ohio.
August 31, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Judge Lets Alaska Medicaid Expansion Move Forward Over Legislature's Objections
A state judge said Friday that Alaska Gov. Bill Walker's administration could expand the Medicaid health care program beginning next week, dismissing a request by the state Legislature to temporarily block enrollment while attorneys argue lawmakers' underlying legal challenge.
August 31, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Police Worry About Their Own Safety After Killings
During his 21 years in law enforcement, Cpl. Wayne Curry hasn't worried much about the approach of strangers.
August 31, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Texas AG Paxton Pleads Not Guilty, Loses His Lawyer
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's first courtroom appearance as a criminal defendant was a 30-minute affair in which Paxton's lead lawyer quit for unspecified reasons, the attorney general requested that no cameras be allowed at his trial and the judge admonished everyone to limit public statements about the case.
August 28, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Nevada to Lose a Major Obamacare Insurer, Forcing Thousands to Find New Coverage
The Nevada Health Co-Op, a consumer-owned and operated health plan created under the Affordable Care Act, is going out of business because of high costs, state officials announced Wednesday.
August 28, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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In Medicaid Dispute, Court Protects Arizonans Health Coverage
A judge ruled Wednesday that a hospital assessment that pays for the expansion of the state’s Medicaid program did not require a supermajority vote of the Legislature to be enacted and is therefore constitutional.
August 28, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Even in Summer, Californians Cut Water Usage More Than Required
Californians are letting their lawns turn brown. They are driving dusty cars and using buckets to collect shower water. They are saving billions of gallons of water every day.
August 28, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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California Shelves 100+ Bills Till Next Year
State lawmakers shelved bills Thursday to raise the minimum wage, ban oil drilling off the coast and provide work permits to agricultural laborers who are in the country illegally.
August 28, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Obama Praises New Orleans' Recovery 10 Years After Katrina
As President Barack Obama toured the Treme neighborhood of this city on Thursday, admiring the neat rows of brightly painted houses on a street battered by Hurricane Katrina, a 92-year-old woman _ a local icon _ told him she was proud of all he had done.
August 28, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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