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Daniel Luzer

news editor

Daniel Luzer -- News Editor. Daniel previously worked as the Web editor at the Washington Monthly and as an editorial fellow at Mother Jones. His work has appeared at Mother Jones, Salon, Pacific Standard, the Washington Monthly and Columbia Journalism Review.

(It's pronounced Loot-zer.)

Los Angeles police misclassified nearly 1,200 violent crimes as minor offenses.
Approximate number of eligible Wisconsin college students who didn't get need-based financial aid this year because of shortfalls in state funding.
Former Saturday Night Live comedian Victoria Jackson, who ran last week as a Tea Party-backed candidate for commissioner of Williamson County, Tenn. She didn't win.
The ruling that bans "psychiatric boarding," which has become more prevalent as hospitals have struggled with a shortage of resources, has health officials scrambling.
Warren Mayor Jim Fouts said he plans to file a lawsuit Friday to overturn the passage of Proposal 1, which will phase out a tax on manufacturing equipment in Michigan. He says the ballot language was slanted.
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Percent of New Jersey voters who approve of Chris Christie's job performance, which is the governor's lowest net approval rating since August 2011.
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Number of subway cars removed from the New York City system after riders found bedbugs on trains this week. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority said the bedbugs were an isolated incident and no one reported being bitten.
John Brownlee, lawyer for the former Virginia governor, arguing that McDonnell's friendship with Jonnie Williams Sr., and his promotion of Williams' business was intended only to help a Virginia company. McDonnell and his wife are charged with accepting more than $165,000 in gifts and secret loans from Williams in exchange for promoting his products.
The city parking meters could bring in an extra $6 million a year in revenue. But Detroit switched to lower-batteries, so the meters don't work reliably.
A study shows that many teachers are not credentialed in the subjects they're hired to teach.