✕

Internet Explorer 11 is not supported

For optimal browsing, we recommend Chrome, Firefox or Safari browsers.
GOVERNING Avatar Logo

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.

Who Said That
[Girls] pretty much ruin everything.
Jared Hensley, the athletic director of a Tennessee high school, in a video broadcast to the student body. He was explaining why the dress code forbids students from wearing athletic shorts. He has since been placed on administrative leave.
September 28, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Archive
Maryland State Lawmakers Urge Local Police to Investigate Kavanaugh Allegations
Eleven state delegates from Montgomery County are calling on local police and prosecutors to investigate allegations that U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh committed one or more sexual assaults while a high school student at Georgetown Prep in the 1980s.
September 27, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
$3 billion to $4 billion
So-called performance fees, which are rarely reported, paid to Wall Street firms by public pension funds each year.
September 27, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
The last time I tried voting they ran out of ballots. The voting machine broke another time.
Leonard Holiday, a resident of the Navajo Nation Reservation.
September 27, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
GOV10_25_Wisconsin_770x513
Archive
Scott Walker: Born-Again Centrist?
Long considered a conservative hero, Wisconsin’s governor is sounding kinder and gentler as he seeks a third term.
September 26, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
GOV10_46_5G
Archive
FCC Sets Rules for 5G Infrastructure, Limiting State and Local Control
The new industry-backed regulations are likely to attract lawsuits from state and local government groups that worry they will cost them revenue, make it easier for internet providers to sue them and do little to address the digital divide.
September 26, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Archive
Is Forced Patriotism Legal? Texas Thinks So.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is defending a state law that requires schoolchildren to say the Pledge of Allegiance by joining a lawsuit that could determine the legality of similar mandates nationwide.
September 26, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Archive
Cracked Beam Shuts Down New $2 Billion Transit Center in San Francisco
San Francisco's Transbay Transit Center closed on Tuesday during the afternoon rush hour after officials found a cracked six-and-a-half-foot steel beam that supports the rooftop park.
September 26, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
This incident has lived with me for 42 years. My assaulter went on to become a physician. I let him get away with it, because I was PROTECTING MYSELF.
New Hampshire state Sen. Martha Hennessey, who shared her story of sexual assault -- at a Dartmouth College fraternity party in 1976 -- amid allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
September 26, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
$17.8 million
Value of cocaine hidden in boxes of bananas and sent to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
September 26, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Load More
gov-footer-logo-2024.png
GT-footer-logo.png
II-footer-logo.png
NAV-footer-logo.png
CDG-footer-logo.png
CDE-footer-logo.png
CPSAI-footer-logo.png
EM-footer-logo.png