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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.)

Midland, Texas, Public Information Officer Sara Higgins, on her city's efforts to ensure and pay for a steady water supply.
Ben Smith, a California father of five who works in the technology industry, responding to a judge's ruling last month that his state's teacher tenure rules are unconstitutional.
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Number of murders per 100,000 people in Flint, Mich., in 2012 -- the highest rate in the country.
A special smartphone app lets citizens help fix problems by photographing derelict properties and texting them to a public database.
146
Number of U.S. counties that account for half of the country's 316 million people. The rest of the population is distributed across 2,998 counties.
Cara Smith, executive director of the Cook County Jail in Illinois where a man visiting his son recently got locked in a maximum security cell for 32 hours. He was finally released after setting off the sprinkler system.
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Percent decline in the number of full-time statehouse newspaper reporters since 2003.
The cost of a 15-minute in-state call for San Francisco inmates, which will soon drop to $4.05 as the city becomes one of the first to change its contract with phone companies to dramatically reduce the cost of jail calls.
Nelson Lichtenstein, labor historian at the University of California-Santa Barbara, on the barriers to the organization of public-sector employees.
Slate political reporter David Weigel, on why Cleveland, Ohio, is the perfect city to host the 2016 Republican Nation Convention.