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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 spasm of violence hit the city during the holiday weekend.
The city couldn't collect its money in 2013-14 because poor bookkeeping made it impossible to track how much money had been spent and how much was owed,
Puerto Rico’s economic problems stem in some part, some economists say, from how the U.S. commonwealth has to operate under the same minimum-wage rules as the more prosperous 50 states
Some 57 percent said it’s a symbol of Southern pride. Only 33 percent called it more a symbol of racism.
A train derailment and fire in eastern Tennessee's Blount County results in an evacuation of the surrounding area.
One unfortunate fact of American politics is that election districts are becoming more and more misshapen.
Illinois law separates Chicago teacher pensions from the fund for educators in the rest of the state.
To hold his position in the state before the first Republican nominating contest the Wisconsin governor has become more conservative on marriage and immigration.
The state's Democrats join Mayor Bill de Blasio in a chorus of dissent against the Democratic governor.
After the feds sent millions to drought-stricken California, the Interior Department warned earlier funds had been wasted.