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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.)

A Florida Department of Law Enforcement audit finds 7,877 items, including 19 guns and 44 caches of seized narcotics, have gone missing from Sweetwater, Fla. evidence rooms since 2010.
The Best and Brightest Scholarship has come under heavy criticism, including from some of the lawmakers who approved it this summer.
The changes signed by Chris Christie last week are considered progressive in their approach to handle juvenile offenders, focusing more on rehabilitation instead of severe punishment.
Does he want to end the war on drugs or escalate it?
Over the last four years, about one of every four recommendations from the Auditor General was repeated from a previous audit because the problem wasn’t fully addressed.
The new standards adopted by the California Energy Commission would slash water flows by 20 percent on showerheads manufactured after next July 1. Flows would decrease an additional 10 percent on showerheads made after July 2018.
The state legislature has decided to extend, yet again, the longest budget impasse in 13 years.
One new law creates tougher drug possession penalties, while the other reduces them, so the increased penalties cannot take effect until lawmakers address the conflict next year.
Asa Hutchinson said policymakers will develop frameworks for a comprehensive K-12 computer science curriculum.
After falling in the 1990s, the number of poor people living in high-poverty areas has been growing fast.