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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.

Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz has little to show for a voter fraud investigation that has gone on for nearly 18 months and cost the state almost $150,000.
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes on Monday allowed appeals of two of his critical rulings.
Gov. Pat Quinn dropped his appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court over his failed attempt to withhold legislators' paychecks until they sent him a bill to overhaul the state's public employee pension system, clearing the way to collect nearly $74,000 in back pay he refused to take during the stalemate.
Republican Rep. Mark Patterson, under scrutiny by his own party following revelations of a 1974 Florida rape case, said Monday he won't run for re-election in 2014 but was still considering whether he'll serve in the upcoming Legislature.
Colorado prison wardens can no longer send prisoners with major mental illness to solitary confinement, according to a memo distributed Thursday that solidifies state policy years in the making.
Public support for labor unions has plunged in California, with more voters for the first time saying they do more harm than good, according to a new Field Poll.
A Los Angeles employee relations officer delivered a stinging defeat to the city's labor leaders Thursday, saying that they failed to meet a procedural deadline for challenging a hotly contested rollback in public employee pension benefits.
MNsure Director April Todd-Malmlov took a two-week trip to Costa Rica around Thanksgiving, leaving behind a state health insurance exchange plagued by glitches and under daily fire from critics.
The battle over Medicaid expansion in Arizona moves to the courtroom today, less than three weeks before the expanded program is scheduled to take effect.
Reports of "Knockout Game" attacks — in which someone sneaks up to a random person and tries to knock them unconscious with one blow to the head — have proliferated across the U.S. in recent months.