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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.)

Ralph Fletcher, sheriff of Hancock County, W.Va. Despite a growing national legalization movement, marijuana possession arrests in the county soared by more than 2,000 percent in the last decade.
While the state is cutting funding health care programs and pension programs, the handouts are part of the state's generous incentive program for film and TV productions, which has earned Louisiana the nickname “Hollywood South.”
With county police cutting back, the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office has marshaled 10 detectives to combat crime in the public sector.
Would building enormous tunnels under the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta really create 19,000 jobs a year?
Latino legislators move to reverse decades of discriminatory policy.
An upstate New York town clings to a casino dream, but many residents brace for disappointment after groups abandon plans to bid on licenses in the Catskills.
New York is home to more than 75 percent of the nation's Yiddish speakers, but the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York has a single interpreter on call.
The New Jersey governor is promoting reforms in education and the treatment of drug offenders as part of a philosophy that extends beyond abortion policy.
The Democratic candidate is defiant as her campaign grinds on.
The Montgomery schools chief offers a new plan to tackle the district's high rates of math exam failure.