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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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Oklahoma's Welfare Drug Testing Proves Costly
Efforts to identify and prevent Oklahomans high on illegal drugs from receiving certain taxpayer-financed welfare benefits cost the state more than $82,700 in the first seven months after a new law took effect.
September 03, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Bay Bridge Opens New East Span to Traffic
The Bay Bridge - now with a soaring, signature tower anchoring the new east span - is finally open.
September 03, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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In Kentucky, a Rare Southern Embrace of Obamacare
Gov. Steve Beshear’s all-out support for President Barack Obama’s health care reform law puts him starkly at odds with Kentucky’s senators — McConnell and Rand Paul — who argue that neither the country nor the state can afford a new entitlement program that they say has already raised premiums and kicked people off their existing plans.
September 03, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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National Gun Debate Hits Close to Home in Colorado Recall Vote
As the recall elections — the first of their kind in Colorado’s history — draw closer, the race has swelled from a local scuffle into a proxy battle in the nation’s wrenching fight over gun control.
September 03, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Feds' Pot Policy Likely to Lead Other States to Change Theirs
When the Justice Department announced Thursday that it would not interfere with the enforcement of voter-approved laws that allow recreational pot use in Washington state and Colorado, leaders on both sides of the issue had the same thought: The policy will probably encourage other states to consider similar laws.
September 03, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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With Common Core, Fewer Topics Covered More Rigorously
By cutting back on a hodgepodge of topics and delving deeper into central concepts, the hope is that the children will understand it better.
September 03, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
$678
The amount that Los Angeles is paying per tablet in its controversial effort to supply every student with an iPad. When all is said and done, the initiative will cost the school district $1 billion.
August 29, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
I have never felt free in the United States. The documents tell me I am right.
Zein Rimawi, leader of a mosque in New York City, which, according to documents, has secretly labeled entire mosques as terrorist organizations.
August 29, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Mayor Offers Plan for Philadelphia's 31 Shuttered Schools
The Nutter administration on Wednesday announced a detailed, multifaceted plan to sell or find new uses for 31 of the School District of Philadelphia's closed school buildings.
August 29, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Arkansas Governor's Race a Test for Southern Democrats
Twenty years ago, the notion of a Republican-controlled Arkansas was unthinkable. But as the state readies for 2014’s hotly contested governor’s race, Republicans have a shot at cementing their newfound dominance in the longtime southern Democratic stronghold.
August 29, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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