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Chris Kardish

Staff Writer

Chris covers health care for GOVERNING. An Ohio native with an interest in education, he set out for New Orleans with Teach For America after finishing a degree at Ohio University’s E.W. Scripps School of Journalism. He later covered government and politics at the Savannah Morning News and its South Carolina paper. He most recently covered North Carolina’s 2013 legislative session for the Associated Press.

The fight to label genetically-modified foods in Washington looks much like the unsuccessful 2012 campaign in California. Will this time be different, and what will success or failure mean for the labeling movement?
Colorado voters will decide Nov. 5 whether to raise their taxes by $950 million a year to put more money toward early childhood education, high-poverty districts and a host of other initiatives.
Republicans blame the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which runs the health care exchange. Democrats blame the contractors who built HealthCare.gov.
People eligible for Medicaid and living in states with federal-run marketplaces will have to wait even longer to sign up for health insurance. How long? No one knows.
A new Moody’s report says more charter schools mean more problems for traditional public schools.
While the federal government has grabbed headlines for slow enrollment in its health insurance exchanges, many state-run marketplaces have quietly amassed thousands of completed applications for coverage.