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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.)

Erie County, N.Y., Executive Mark Poloncarz, "pardoning" a butter lamb last week from doing duty as a spread at Easter dinner (much the way U.S. presidents pardon turkeys at Thanksgiving). Butter sculptures in the shape of lambs are a traditional part of Easter meals among Buffalo's large Polish-American population.
Number of Californians who enrolled in health coverage through the state's insurance exchange, which makes up about one-eighth of both state and federal enrollment on the exchanges.
Editorial in the Twins Falls Times-News, questioning the success that southern Idaho will have in its attempt to become the country's center for food production. It recently attracted seven major American food manufacturing companies to set up plants.
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Percentage of same-sex marriages performed in Iowa in the past year that have been between people from out of state.
The governor indicates that the federal government says there's "no deal breaker" in his proposed health-care expansion plan.
New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez, implying that teachers are already earning too much money.
Jezebel's Rebecca Rose, on the name of a Colorado vending machine to be stocked with marijuana products that will be located outside Montana Steakhouse in Avon, Colo.
New York drops a secretive program that dispatched plainclothes detectives into Muslim neighborhoods to eavesdrop and record behavior.
John Land, 93, has served for all but three years since 1949.
Former Washington, D.C., Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee on her decision to hire Tony Tata to be her school district's chief of operations, despite the fact that he had no professional experience in education.