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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.)

Number of Minnesota laws repealed this year as part of Gov. Mark Dayton's "unsession" initiative to get rid of obsolete laws.
Former New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, to David Guthartz, the head of New York Ferret’s Rights Advocacy group. The city is considering ending a rule that prevents residents from keeping ferrets as pets.
The amount New York City spends on each of its students, which is more than any other large public school system in the country.
Joe Schilling, head of the Sustainable Communities Initiative at Virginia Tech's Metropolitan Institute, on Philadelphia's Mantua neighborhood, which held a "funeral" for the last house on Melon Street, before developers razed it on Saturday. A hearse-like dumpster will carry the debris down the block, trailed by a procession of drill teams, bands and local residents.
Sherlita Amler, Westchester County commissioner of health, after someone left five baby raccoons on the doorstep of the health department in White Plains, N.Y. Amler wants the person who cared for the animals -- dropped off in a cage with bottles of milk, blankets and toys -- to come into the office immediately to be assessed for the possibility of rabies.
The city got more aggressive about delinquent property tax collection.
Major public intervention in the city’s poorest area has created a new generation of housing stock that residents believe is overly restricted to lower-income people.
Illinois State Sen. Matt Murphy, speaking against legislation passed that would give Chicago the authority to write its own rules on where medical marijuana dispensaries and cultivation centers could open in the city.
Chicago would become the only city in the state allowed to write its own rules on where medical marijuana dispensaries and cultivation centers can be.
A judge has limited access to hundreds of pages of documents from a Republican consulting firm.