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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.

With so little good news about obesity in the USA, public health advocates are celebrating a rare victory: a sharp decline in obesity rates among young children.
After having the state's broadcast television markets to himself for nearly a month, York businessman Tom Wolf has surged to the lead in the Democratic race for governor in a new survey by Harper Polling.
Long before tunnel-boring machine Bertha stalled underneath Seattle because of leaky seals, it experienced a problem involving the same seals back in Japan.
Colorado's state corrections chief took his call for reforming solitary confinement to a Senate panel Tuesday, saying he wants to lower the number of people serving in those conditions in Colorado down to fewer than 3 percent of the state's prison population by next summer.
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to wade into the politically volatile issue of gun control by leaving intact three court rulings rejecting challenges to federal and state laws.
On party lines, South Dakota's House of Representatives rejected Medicaid expansion Monday afternoon.
Utah and Colorado lawmakers both voted favorably on proposals Thursday to treat tobacco like alcohol and take it away from 18- to 20-year-olds, a move inspired by new research on how many smokers start the habit as teenagers.
With Gov. Chris Christie set to propose a new state budget today, Democrats who control the state Legislature Monday warned that he shouldn’t expect support for a tax cut.
Gov. Jan Brewer’s closest advisers and the Arizona Republican establishment are urging her to veto Senate Bill 1062, the controversial right-to-refuse-service legislation that landed on her desk Monday.
Six state attorneys general — all Democrats — have refused to defend bans on same-sex marriage, prompting criticism from Republicans who say they have a duty to stand behind their state laws, even if they do not agree with them.