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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.

Latest News
New Jersey Adopts Some of Strictest Trash-Talking Rules for Sports
New Jersey is believed to be the first state to implement strict guidelines to clean up school athletics by banning bias language and imposing penalties for violators. Several states are considering similar steps.
September 23, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
$39 billion
The amount the U.S. House voted last week to cut from the food stamp program over the next decade. The bill approved in the Senate would cut only $4.5 billion.
September 20, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
Privacy as we’ve known it is dead, and so we’re going to have to reconcile that the two things need to go together: privacy and transparency.
California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, at a Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society event called “Can Open Data Improve Democratic Governance?”
September 20, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Latest News
Watchdog Group Complains Oregon's Malpractice Law Hides Bad Doctors
A new Oregon law establishing a medical malpractice mediation process will undermine patient safety by withholding the names of negligent doctors from a national database, the watchdog organization Public Citizen has complained to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
September 20, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Archive
When ACA Expands Mental Health Care, Peer Specialists Can Help States
The federal health law will cause a surge in demand for mental health care that combined with an already severe shortage of mental health workers has many worried there won’t be enough providers to serve everyone in need.
September 20, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Latest News
Report Examines Why Cities Struggle Financially
Detroit, Chicago and three other U.S. cities fell into financial distress for a variety of reasons, according to analyses of financial data released on Thursday.
September 20, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Latest News
House Passes $39B Deep Cuts to Food Stamps
The House approved a Republican plan Thursday to cut food stamps by $39 billion during the next decade, setting up a showdown with Democrats over the program used by nearly 48 million low-income Americans.
September 20, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Latest News
A Rush to Fix Pricing Glitch on Federally Run Health Exchanges
Less than two weeks before the launch of insurance marketplaces created by the federal health overhaul, the government's software can't reliably determine how much people need to pay for coverage, according to insurance executives and people familiar with the program.
September 20, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Latest News
U.S. Lawmakers Call for Nationwide Investigation of Local Tax-Lien Programs
A dozen U.S. senators are calling on the federal government to investigate tax-lien programs across the country and find ways to thwart “unscrupulous practices” that in the District alone have cost dozens of families their homes.
September 20, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Latest News
4 States Sue EPA over Clean Air Requirements
North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas and Nevada have sued the Environmental Protection Agency, alleging it has failed to determine the states' compliance with a new federal clean air requirement that limits sulfur dioxide emissions.
September 20, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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