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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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4-Year-Old Mayor Runs Minnesota Tourist Town
Every year the town draws a name during its Taste of Dorset Festival, and the winner gets to be mayor.
July 10, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Texas House Provisionally Approves Abortion Law
The Texas House on Tuesday night provisionally approved tough new abortion restrictions, making good on a third attempt to pass the measure this year.
July 10, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Homeland Security Expert Juliette Kayyem Explores Run for Massachusetts Governor
A former assistant secretary in President Barack Obama’s Department of Homeland Security, Kayyem would bring an unconventional political profile to the race to succeed outgoing Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick.
July 10, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Virginia Governor's Family Allegedly Benefited from $120,000 More from Donor
The money to the corporation and Maureen McDonnell brings to $145,000 the amount Williams gave to assist the McDonnell family in 2011 and 2012 — funds that are now at the center of federal and state investigations.
July 10, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Report: Immigration Overhaul Could Boost State, Local Revenues
Granting citizenship to 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States could boost state and local government coffers by about $2 billion annually, said a liberal-leaning think tank study released on Wednesday.
July 10, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Study: ACA Leaves Current Medicaid Patients Out of Better Preventive Care
The requirements in the Affordable Care Act pertain only to private insurers, Medicare and Medicaid expansion programs.
July 09, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Colorado's Top Marijuana Business Regulator Retiring
The director of the Colorado Marijuana Enforcement Division is retiring, at a time when the embattled division is taking on the task of regulating the state's new recreational marijuana industry.
July 09, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Major Insurer's Opposition to Emergency Manager's Plan Puts Detroit Closer to Bankruptcy
An insurance company that backs more than $170 million in Detroit bonds said it opposes emergency manager Kevyn Orr’s attempt to restructure the city’s finances, a rejection appearing to place the city one step closer to the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S history.
July 09, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Why Sex Scandal-Plagued Politicians Keep Coming Back for More
The instinct that leads many people obsessively to pursue public approval and power through winning elections is closely linked to the instinct that leads many of these same people (and let’s face it, they are all men) to sexual excess and disaster.
July 09, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Hundreds Testify in Texas Abortion Hearing
Hundreds of witnesses from both sides of the abortion issue tried Monday to sway a Senate committee as a sweeping abortion bill remained on a fast track in the Legislature.
July 09, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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