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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.)

New Mexico Environment Department spokesman Jim Winchester, denying two companies the ability to excavate part of an old city landfill to search for Atari "E.T. The Extraterrestrial" game cartridges purportedly buried there in the 1980s. "E.T." is considered one of the worst video games ever made.
A bill to expand government-funded health coverage was narrowly defeated.
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Percent of household electricity use in California that comes from the indoor growth of marijuana.
Harvard School of Public Health Professor John McDonough, while discussing a new commission in Massachusetts (which is the only of its kind in the nation) designed to look at the impact of increasingly popular hospital mergers.
Tennessee’s combined state and local sales tax rate, the highest in the United States.
Percent of U.S. flights that arrived on-time in January, the worst record since the Transportation Department started keeping records in the 1990s.
Morgan Fox, spokesman for the Marijuana Policy Project, referring to legislation to allow the use of cannabis oil for medical use in states where medical marijuana is prohibited.
Number of child abuse and neglect cases opened in Arizona since 2009 that have been closed without investigation.
Akron, Ohio, Mayor Don Plusquellic, speaking at a meeting of mayors in Washington, D.C., this month to protest the president's proposed spending cuts to CDBGs.
If Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott wins, his wife will become the first Latina to be the first lady of Texas.