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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.

Republican leaders are threatening to take congressional action to stop state governors from flouting the food stamp cuts contained in the 2014 farm bill.
Indiana lawmakers have ended their 2014 session, sending business tax cuts, a preschool program, new roads funding and a series of other measures to Gov. Mike Pence for consideration.
It took three years and tortured negotiations that lasted until the final day of the Legislative session.
Even as he came under escalating attacks from Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and the Legislature for his stance toward charter schools, Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday stepped closer to securing state financing to expand prekindergarten in New York City.
The delegation from the National Cannabis Industry Association made a point of dressing well for its day on Capitol Hill, sporting mostly dark suits, lots of ties and plenty of the group’s signature lapel pins, which feature a sun rising over vibrant fields of marijuana.
Doctors, hospitals and advocates for the poor had high hopes Utah would become the 28th state to expand Medicaid this legislative session — a move that would cover more than a quarter of the state’s 400,000 uninsured.
Reubin Askew, one of the most popular and effective governors in Florida history and a fiercely determined advocate for tax reform, racial equality, managed growth and ethical government, died early Thursday in Tallahassee. He was 85.
Lawmakers appear ready to make marijuana oil legal in Kentucky, after the Senate unanimously approved a bill Wednesday that would make the controversial extract available to treat children with uncontrollable seizures.
The day after U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder called for expanded use of the life-saving opioid overdose antidote naloxone in the nation's burgeoning heroin epidemic, Ohio Gov. John Kasich made that expansion a little easier here.
Two top state lawmakers say they were caught off guard Tuesday by Gov. Chris Christie’s administration’s sudden decision to stop allowing Tesla Motors to sell its electric cars directly to customers in New Jersey, and are considering a legislative remedy.