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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.

Surrounded by developmentally disabled children in wheelchairs, Gov. Jay Nixon on Thursday announced his veto of a tax cut bill that he maintains would gut funding for them and other vulnerable Missourians in order to give generous breaks to the richest people in the state.
The Prince George's County Police Department says it will take to Twitter as the Vice Unit conducts a prostitution sting next week.
Seattle minimum-wage workers would be making $18 an hour in a decade — double the current wage — under a plan announced Thursday morning by Mayor Ed Murray.
All 34 cities targeted for the expansion of Google'S fast Fiber Internet service met a deadline on Thursday by responding to a long list of requirements from the company.
Mayor Bill de Blasio, confronting the unsettled labor agreements that have loomed over his first months in office, announced a deal on Thursday with New York City’s largest teachers’ union that would raise wages by 18 percent over nine years in exchange for a $1.3 billion reduction in health care costs.
For the first time, the federal government on Thursday named colleges and universities that are facing investigations into their handling of sexual assaults.
Counties in Washington state have joined a growing number of local jurisdictions in Colorado and Oregon that will no longer detain immigrants who are eligible for release on behalf of federal immigration authorities.
A Democratic group with ties to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has been quietly working to enforce the controversial Citizens United decision at the state level.
The National Transportation Safety Board has launched an investigation of a freight train derailment in Lynchburg that destroyed three oil tanker cars, lifted a plume of black smoke into the sky and spilled thousands of gallons of crude oil into the James River.
At least two inmates died and more than 150 other people were injured when an apparent gas explosion collapsed part of a county jail in the Florida panhandle late Wednesday, officials said.