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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.

A Nevada-based startup that plans on selling medical and recreational marijuana products named former New Mexico governor and U.S. Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson as its CEO and president, the company announced Tuesday.
Gov. Corbett refused late Monday to sign a $29.1 billion budget that the Republican-controlled legislature scrambled to deliver to him just 90 minutes before the midnight deadline.
Democrats in the Legislature don’t have enough votes to override Christie's vetoes.
Regrouping after federal judges told the state it cannot count empty medical beds as reductions in prison crowding, Gov. Jerry Brown is asking for more time to meet the court's looming deadlines.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday decided against hearing several closely watched California legal challenges, in each instance leaving intact a ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Among the cases the justices let go were:
Cities across the nation have teamed up with professional and minor league soccer teams to host public viewing parties to cheer on the United States.
Sixteen years ago, D.C. activists gathered signatures to let voters decide if the District should be among the first in the nation to legalize medical marijuana.
Randy Oliver has a pressing question as legal marijuana sales are about to begin in Washington: Where’s all the weed?
Governor Deval Patrick today signed into law a bill raising the minimum wage from $8 to $11 per hour by 2017, setting Massachusetts on course to have the highest minimum wage of any state in the country.
California Governor Jerry Brown on Saturday signed into law a bill that clears away possible state-level obstacles to alternative currencies such as bitcoin.