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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.)

Robert Tufts, the 5-year-old mayor of Dorset, Minn., who lost his bid for a third consecutive term earlier this week. Dorset, which has no formal city government and a population ranging from nine to 28, elects a figurehead mayor during its annual Taste of Dorset festival.
Amount in unpaid parking and speeding tickets owed by former Washington, D.C., Mayor and current City Council member Marion Barry.
Richard A. Epstein, a law professor at New York University, and Mario Loyola, a senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, who argue programs like Medicaid, Common Core, the Clean Air Act and the federal highway system are turning "states into mere field offices of the federal government."
The percent of U.S. newborns who are breastfed, ranging from 56.9 percent in Louisiana to 92.8 percent in California.
Features Writer Sadie Dingfelder, on "adult recess," an event last week in which dozens of adults gathered at a suburban public library to play nerf tag and sardines.
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The number of official holidays that will be celebrated in Puerto Rico next year -- down from 19 this year because of complaints that too many holidays cost the government millions in lost productivity.
David Keim, spokesman for Tennessee's Oak Ridge National Laboratory that works for the U.S. Department of Energy. ORNL cancelled plans for a “Southern Accent Reduction” class because of objections from lab staff members.
A Facebook post from the Lockport, N.Y., Police Department, after a local TV news reporter questioned the department’s description of a suspect as “negro-dark.”
Controversial coal mine regulations go into effect Friday.
Pot money is going to the state's public schools to help fund pricey capital projects.