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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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Washington Governor Proposes Cap-and-Trade System to Fund Transportation
After two years of watching gas-tax increases tank in the Legislature, Gov. Jay Inslee proposed Tuesday to take a new approach: Charge major polluters for the right to emit carbon.
December 18, 2014
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Most Executions Occur in Just 3 States
The death penalty is on the decline in the United States in every conceivable category. Fewer states execute inmates, fewer executions are carried out and fewer people are sentenced to death in the first place.
December 18, 2014
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Drought-Stricken States Collaborate to Preserve Lake Mead
With a 14-year drought in the Colorado River basin showing few signs of breaking, states along the river’s path are taking new steps this month to ensure that Lake Mead — the Colorado River reservoir that is the water source for much of the Southwest — does not fail them.
December 18, 2014
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Vermont Drops Plan to Become First State with Single-Payer Health Care
Gov. Peter Shumlin has abandoned his plan to institute a single-payer health system in Vermont.
December 18, 2014
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Detractors of Google Take Fight to the States
They have lobbied state attorneys general. They have hired former state attorneys general. They have even helped draft a menacing letter for one state attorney general.
December 17, 2014
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Push to Provide Lawyers in Housing Court Gains Momentum
The Sixth Amendment guarantees a right to counsel in criminal cases, but the Constitution does not provide a similar right in civil cases.
December 17, 2014
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Appeals Court Denies Inmate's Sex-Change Surgery
A federal appeals court has overturned a ruling ordering Massachusetts prison officials to provide taxpayer-funded sex-reassignment surgery for an inmate convicted of murder.
December 17, 2014
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Local Governments Battle Businesses That Won't Serve Gays
The refusals by the religious merchants — bakers, florists and photographers, for example — have been taking place for several years.
December 16, 2014
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Congress Quietly Ends U.S. Ban on Medical Marijuana
Tucked deep inside the 1,603-page federal spending measure is a provision that effectively ends the federal government's prohibition on medical marijuana and signals a major shift in drug policy.
December 16, 2014
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Top DGA, RGA Staffers Form Consulting Firm
Over the past four years, the men who ran the Republican and Democratic governors’ associations competed fiercely. Now, they’re going into business together.
December 15, 2014
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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