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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.

The final standalone race for lieutenant governor has attracted some famous S.C. political names in the Republican primary, including a former state attorney general and the son of a former governor.
Measure 1, the only ballot initiative to be decided Tuesday, would move the deadline for submitting ballot measure petitions from 90 days to 120 days prior to an election.
Depending on the outcome of more than half a dozen key races pitting establishment GOP candidates against outsiders, tea party members or Ron Paul supporters, the results could affect Democrats’ chances of winning the lieutenant governor’s job and maintaining control of the state Senate in the Nov. 4 general election.
Conservative, combative Republican Gov. Paul LePage has a phrase for the three-way race that pits him against Eliot Cutler, an independent who almost beat him four years ago, and Democratic Rep. Mike Michaud, who would be the first openly gay person elected governor if he wins in November.
Gov. Bobby Jindal has signed legislation aimed at killing a lawsuit filed by a New Orleans area regional levee board against 97 oil and gas companies, despite concerns that the new law could negatively affect state and government claims against BP over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Sgt. Kelly will join representatives from other local law-enforcement agencies Monday in Yonkers to help unveil a new initiative of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to replace lost federal grants.
During the Obama administration, according to Pentagon data, police departments have received tens of thousands of machine guns; nearly 200,000 ammunition magazines; thousands of pieces of camouflage and night-vision equipment; and hundreds of silencers, armored cars and aircraft.
A review of court records, and interviews with current and former Port Authority officials, suggests that there was a more urgent motivation for the transaction: shifting a looming financial problem for Christie onto the authority’s ledgers.
Birmingham, Cleveland, Columbus, New York, Philadelphia and Phoenix.
A state judge announced today that she will hear a major challenge to Gov. Chris Christie's plan to take funds meant for public-workers' pensions to solve a budget crisis, a development that adds even more pressure on lawmakers and the governor as they scramble to finish a new budget by June 30.