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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 abrupt decision was a rare political retreat by the New York governor.
The Oregon Health Authority on Monday issued revised rules for marijuana-infused products, allowing the sale of baked goods and other sweets but banning marijuana-laced sweets "attractive to minors."
Gov. Martin O’Malley’s proposal to raise Maryland’s minimum wage to $10.10 an hour advanced in the Senate on Wednesday, but only after a key committee stretched out the timetable two years beyond what the governor had proposed.
President Barack Obama, in Michigan yesterday rallying Congress to raise the minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 an hour.
Drones won’t join coyotes as prey on the dun-colored prairie after voters in Deer Trail, Colorado, population 563, turned down a proposal for the town to issue hunting licenses for unmanned aerial vehicles.
The governor signed a bill into law Monday to enable online voter registration by the middle of 2015.
New police statistics show total crime - violent and non-violent - plummeted nearly 30 percent for the first quarter of 2014 compared against the same quarter from 2013.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s administration violated federal law by trying to remove non-citizens from the voter rolls too close to the 2012 presidential election, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday in calling the mistake-prone effort “far from perfect.”
Muriel E. Bowser, a low-key but politically canny District lawmaker, won the Democratic mayoral nomination Tuesday, emerging from a pack of challengers in a low-turnout primary to deny scandal-tarnished incumbent Vincent C. Gray a second term.
A Texas Monthly piece published Tuesday morning positing that Academy Award-winning actor Matthew McConaughey is weighing a write-in candidacy for agriculture commissioner is most likely an April Fools' joke.