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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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Supreme Court Debates Judges' Rights to Campaign
In a clash between the First Amendment and judicial ethics code, the Supreme Court debated Tuesday whether to free elected judges to personally ask for campaign contributions from voters, including lawyers and others who might one day find themselves in their courtroom.
January 21, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Repealing Immigrant Driver's License Law Among New Mexico Governor's 2015 Goals
In her annual State of the State address on Tuesday, Gov. Susana Martinez outlined her wish list for the 2015 legislative session, including higher pay for new teachers, a large highway spending package, more money to help lure businesses to the state and more funds for job-training programs.
January 21, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez's 2015 State of the State Speech (Text and Video)
Read and watch the governor's annual address.
January 21, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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MLK’s Birthday Marked by Protests over Black Men's Deaths
In Atlanta, about 200 young demonstrators sat down in the middle of Peachtree Street, not far from the annual Martin Luther King's Birthday commemoration at Ebenezer Baptist Church, and briefly stopped the parade.
January 20, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Fracking Waste Linked to Earthquakes in Kansas
The disposal of waste saltwater from hydraulic fracturing could be to blame for a sharp increase in earthquakes in south-central Kansas, according to a geophysicist with the Kansas Geological Survey.
January 20, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Ohio Overpass Collapses, Kills One
The Cincinnati police chief urged morning commuters to plan ahead Tuesday after an interstate overpass undergoing demolition collapsed, killing one person and injuring another.
January 20, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Virginia Governor Hospitalized After Being Thrown from Horse
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe has been hospitalized following a horse-riding accident over the Christmas holidays in Africa that left him with seven broken ribs and fluid around his lungs, a spokesman said Monday.
January 20, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Cuomo Calls for New Minimum Wages -- One for NYC and One for the State
Flanked by a collection of liberal groups and labor leaders, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Sunday announced a raft of proposals on social issues, among them a plan that would raise the minimum wage to $11.50 an hour in New York City and $10.50 an hour in the rest of the state.
January 19, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Snowplow Tracking Apps Keep Cities Accountable
As another storm flung snow at Chicago, Alexandra Clark wondered how she'd get to work. Like an increasing number of snowbound city dwellers, she had a ready tool at hand: an app that tracks hundreds of city snowplows in close to real time.
January 19, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Thousands Sent Back to Prison without New Convictions
More than half of the nearly 8,000 people sent to Wisconsin's prisons in 2013 were locked up without a trial — and they weren't found guilty of new crimes.
January 19, 2015
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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