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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.

Facing the prospect of a federal lawsuit over abuse and corruption at the Rikers Island jail complex, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Tuesday that he would seek to change civil service laws to allow his administration to use uniformed officers from outside the Correction Department to help fix the system.
Google is breaking ties with the American Legislative Exchange Council, a prominent network of conservative state legislators that, among other projects, works to roll back laws that promote solar and wind power, the company's chairman said Monday.
More than 100 people were arrested Monday after at least 1,000 green activists halted traffic in New York’s Financial District with a pointed message for the masters of Washington and Wall Street: Unrestrained capitalism is a major cause of climate change.
A proposed partnership between Hard Rock International and the impoverished Menominee Tribe of Wisconsin would funnel millions in profits back to Florida if Gov. Scott Walker approves the plan to open an $808 million casino complex in Kenosha.
A Lafayette judge Monday ruled Louisiana's ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional. But Attorney General Buddy Caldwell plans to appeal the decision directly to the Louisiana Supreme Court, a Caldwell spokesperson said.
Crist, a Republican turned Democrat running for his old job, is in one of the toughest gubernatorial races in the country.
After years of teenage inmates being slashed, stabbed and maimed, it appeared that the jail for adolescents at Rikers Island had finally been brought under control. In April 2011, a new warden and deputy warden were named, and almost immediately, official tallies of inmate fights fell by two-thirds.
In the late 1990s the Democratic candidate for governor of Kansas was getting a lap dance at a strip club when cops raided it in search of drugs, a situation Paul Davis on Saturday described as being “in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
The municipal identification cards that New York plans to start issuing next year in an effort to make life easier for undocumented immigrants will come with an added benefit so enticing that many others may sign up for them too: an offer of free tickets or discounts at 33 of the city’s leading cultural institutions.
Dozens of police chiefs meeting in Chicago this week said a notorious fatal police shooting in Ferguson, Missouri in August had been a defining moment for law enforcement and pledged greater transparency over such incidents.