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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.

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Not Just the NSA: State, Local Law Enforcement Collected Cell Phone Data, Too
Federal, state and local law enforcement agencies conducting criminal investigations collected data on cellphone activity thousands of times last year, with each request to a phone company yielding hundreds or thousands of phone numbers of innocent Americans along with those of potential suspects.
December 09, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Amid Referendum, California Governor OKs Tribe Casino
California's second-largest Indian tribe could soon have its first casino under a deal signed by Gov. Jerry Brown.
December 09, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Bloomberg Battles Plastic To-Go Containers in His Final Days
He has battled the tobacco, taxicab and soda industries. Now, in his last days in office, one of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s final showdowns is with makers of plastic-foam food containers.
December 09, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Satanists Want a Place at the Oklahoma Statehouse
In their zeal to tout their faith in the public square, conservatives in Oklahoma may have unwittingly opened the door to a wide range of religious groups, including satanists who are seeking to put their own statue next to a Ten Commandments monument on the Statehouse steps.
December 09, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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California Cities Get Out of Bankruptcy without Addressing Pensions
Stockton, along with pretty much every other city in California that has gone into bankruptcy in recent years, has not done is address the skyrocketing public pensions that are at the heart of many of these cases.
December 06, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Medical Marijuana Ballot Lanuage At Issue in Florida
Florida Supreme Court justices held a one-hour, sometimes testy hearing Thursday on a proposed medical marijuana amendment to determine the constitutionality of ballot language.
December 06, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Social Workers Strike over High Caseloads in L.A. County
In the first strike by Los Angeles County employees since 2000, more than 1,000 social workers took to the picket lines Thursday in a major escalation of a labor dispute over salary increases and caseloads.
December 06, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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The Nation's First Black Governor Remembers Mandela as 'Monument to Humanity'
L. Douglas Wilder, the nation’s first elected African-American governor, had a special kinship with Nelson Mandela, who triumphed over a prison ordeal to serve as South Africa’s first black president.
December 06, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Illinois Governor Quietly Signs Pension Reform
Gov. Pat Quinn launched Illinois' epic attempt to bail itself out of a $100 billion public employee pension debt Thursday, signing into law an ambitious financial, legal and political effort to restore the state's tumbling credit ratings and unstable economy.
December 06, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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William Bratton to Lead NYPD Again
Bratton ran the NYPD from 1994 to 1996, when he worked for Republican Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Their tactics are largely credited with beginning a sharp decrease in the city’s crime rate.
December 06, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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