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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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More Police Agencies Collecting DNA Records
The trend — coming at a time of heightened privacy concerns after recent revelations of secret federal surveillance of telephone calls and Internet traffic — is expected only to accelerate after the Supreme Court’s recent decision upholding a Maryland statute allowing the authorities to collect DNA samples from those arrested for serious crimes.
June 13, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Judge Rules Tennessee Violated Occupy Nashville's 1st Amendment Rights
Occupy protests spread around the country in 2011, mostly by citizens who were taking aim at the country’s income disparities and what they saw as an overly cozy relationship between federal politicians and Wall Street financiers.
June 13, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Planned Parenthood, ACLU Sue Alabama over Abortion Clinic Law
The law, signed by Gov. Robert Bentley in April and set to take effect next month, requires every doctor who performs an abortion at a clinic to have staff privileges at a local hospital.
June 12, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Washington State Prepares for Shutdown as Special Session Begins
With the legislature headed into a second special session and no budget yet approved, the governor is making plans for a possible government shutdown should the current state budget expire without a new one.
June 12, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Arizona Gov. Brewer Calls Special Session for Budget, Medicaid Expansion
Some denounced the governor’s decision to call a special session as unnecessary and antagonistic, while many avoided the floor and instead sat in the gallery. Others left their respective chambers in protest.
June 12, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Ballot Initiative to Expand Gun Background Checks Submitted in Washington State
Both federal and state lawmakers passed on similar proposals.
June 12, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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NYC Bike-Share Program Faces Problems Unlike Anywhere Else
The city's new program has had technical errors of a magnitude never experienced by bike-share programs in other major American cities.
June 12, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Tea Party Group Threatens Support for Gov. Snyder over Medicaid Expansion
A coalition of tea party groups sent an open letter to Gov. Rick Snyder on Tuesday, saying he risks losing their support for re-election for his embrace of Medicaid expansion as part of the federal Affordable Care Act.
June 12, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Kansas to Start Teaching Evolution, Climate Change in Kindergarten
The Kansas school board has approved new multistate science standards for public schools that treat evolution and climate change as key concepts to be taught from kindergarten through the 12th grade.
June 12, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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D.C.’s Educare a Preschool Model for the U.S.
NE D.C.’s state-of-the-art Educare, funded both publicly and privately, celebrates its first birthday.
June 12, 2013
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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