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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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Florida Governor Apologizes for Flawed Voter Purge
In a rare display of contrition coming to a Florida city near you, Gov. Rick Scott’s administration is acknowledging what civil rights groups and local elections officials had already been saying: Last year’s attempted purge of noncitizens from voter rolls was fundamentally flawed.
October 07, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Controversy over How to Recover from California's Rim Fire
Calls for massive salvage logging, restoration and reforestation projects in the 257,000 acres of public wilderness scarred by the Rim fire have ignited controversy over how to proceed with the largest recovery effort undertaken in the Sierra Nevada.
October 07, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Study: Off-Year Local Elections Reduce Voter and Minority Turnout
Off-year municipal elections like those held this year in Los Angeles reduce overall voter turnout and appear to draw disproportionately small numbers of voters from minority groups, according to a study by the Greenlining Institute to be released Monday.
October 07, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Challenging Arizona's Ban on Race-Based Abortions
A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit challenging an Arizona law that bans abortions based on a fetus’ race or sex, saying the civil-rights groups that filed the suit lacked legal standing.
October 07, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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A Renewed Recall Effort in Colorado
A renewed and spirited effort is underway to recall Sen. Evie Hudak, a Democrat from Westminster, less than six months after an initial effort faltered.
October 07, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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California Governor Sues U.S. Labor Department over Pension Law
As he announced last month, Gov. Jerry Brown today sued the U.S. Department of Labor over its ruling that California's new pension-reform law violates mass-transit workers' collective bargaining rights.
October 07, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Illinois Governor: No More Corporate Tax Breaks without Pension Reform
Despite previously supporting millions of dollars in tax breaks to keep corporations in Illinois, Gov. Pat Quinn on Friday declared there will be no more special incentives for businesses until lawmakers send him a measure to overhaul the state's public employee retirement system.
October 07, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Arizona's 1988 Ban on Begging in Public Ruled Unconstitutional
A federal judge has overturned a state law that made it a crime to beg in public, declaring it violated free speech rights.
October 07, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Obamacare Meets Extra Resistance in Oklahoma
The state attorney general is leading one of the last state challenges against the law in federal court.
October 04, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Lawsuit Challenging Arizona's Medicaid Expansion Has No Merit, Says Governor's Lawyers
Arizona lawmakers on the losing side of the Medicaid expansion vote have no legal authority to stop the new law that broadens eligibility for low-income residents, attorneys for Gov. Jan Brewer argued in a court filing Wednesday.
October 04, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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