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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.

Assemblyman Craig Coughlin recently introduced a bill (A2949) that would create a new pool of potential jurors from volunteers.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will begin work Monday on a berm to allow workers to pump river water out of a 260-acre area of the Snohomish County mudslide, making it safe to continue the search for the missing.
A three-month house arrest for San Diego’s former Mayor Bob Filner is ending.
As deaths from heroin and other opiate drugs rise throughout New York, state officials are planning to equip police with an antidote to reverse the effects of overdoses.
In what may be the first legal test of the state’s medical marijuana law in the workplace, a 57-year-old Newark man with end stage renal failure is suing NJ Transit, his employer, for suspending him and sending him into rehab because he is a registered patient with New Jersey’s medical marijuana program.
Companies wouldn't reap the tax benefit until hitting the job-creation mark, even if it takes several years.
When it came to the biggest issue in the community she serves, casino gambling, Garcia deserves credit for holding her ground against it even though it is very popular at home. But when it came up for a vote this year, one that procedurally was more critical than Medicaid expansion, she didn't register a vote there either.
Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant signed a bill Thursday that supporters say will assure unfettered practice of religion without government interference but that opponents worry could lead to state-sanctioned discrimination against gays and lesbians.
The include a right to space inside public buildings.
The state political practices commissioner concluded that Senate Majority Leader Art Wittich violated the law by coordinating with Western Tradition Partnership and other entities to accept illegal corporate donations in his 2010 primary election campaign.