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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.)

Don Yelton, former Buncombe County, N.C., precinct chair for the Republican Party, on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.” He gave in to calls to resign shortly after making those comments.
Facing a wave of retirements, governments are looking for new ways to build up the expertise and knowledge of people coming up in the organization.
After watching some of their peers get into messy mishaps, public officials are increasingly avoiding traceable channels of communication like email, social media and online commenting.
Some say striving for efficiency only sets governments up for problems.
As the District of Columbia’s CFO for more than decade, Natwar Gandhi’s turnaround story has been the envy of other financially struggling cities.
The Bay Area's commuter rail system's directors ended the practice of making employees on the tracks solely responsible for their own safety.
Jerry Brown hopes the Supreme Court or 9th Circuit will overturn an order blocking him from leasing beds in private prisons.
Both Greg Abbott and Wendy Davis are throwing their support behind a constitutional amendment to fund projects designed to help the state meet its growing need for water. constitutional amendment that would fund projects designed to help the state meet its growing need for water.
Number of school bullying incidents in Tennessee last year, according to the first-ever investigation attempting to count such incidents.
Washington, D.C., Mayor Vincent Gray, offering his first unequivocal support for decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana.