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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.)

Amount of money necessary to fix train stations on the French railway network because engineers failed to measure the distance between the tracks and platforms, leaving 341 trains that are too big to fit in the stations.
Estimated number of bees released on Interstate 95 in Delaware, after a tractor trailer carrying 460 hives crashed last week. The bee swarms prompted police to activate the state's "honeybee swarm removal plan," which was established in 1995 and had never been used before.
Tweet from Fairfax County, Va., School Board member Ryan McEleveen, 28, accepting a 17-year-old's invitation to prom. McEleveen subsequently clarified that he only planned to make a brief appearance at the event.
The secretary of state says he’ll no longer issue the cards, which have long been a prized perk.
Cost of a two-year-old, 18,000-seat high school football stadium in Allen, Texas, that is closed for the upcoming season after engineers determined the structure was "not safe for public assembly.” Taxpayers approved a bond issue to pay for the stadium in 2009.
Emmet G. Sullivan, U.S. District Judge for the District of Columbia, ruling that the ballot referendum passed last year by Washington, D.C., giving the city the right to spend its local tax and fee revenue without seeking an annual appropriation from Congress, was illegal. While Sullivan said he sympathized with the city, Congress ultimately maintains control, and only Congress can grant the city the right to control its own money.
Marijuana Policy Project Communications Director Mason Tvert, reacting to threats by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to block the use of federal water for marijuana cultivation in the states.
The difference in annual salary between a state legislator serving in New Hampshire ($100) and California ($91,000).
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is "evaluating how the Controlled Substances Act applies in the context of Reclamation project water being used to facilitate marijuana-related activities.”
The agricultural community must adapt or face climate consequences, scientists say.