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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.)

On July 1 Jay Shue will leave office the office he created.
The state is issuing a first-of-its-kind anonymous “engagement survey” to measure how much employees care about their work and how connected they feel to what they do.
Amount Nebraska, which just became the first conservative state to ban the death penalty in decades, spent to import illegal execution drugs from India. The state bought enough to carry out more than 300 executions but only has 10 inmates on death row.
5-year-old Bobby Tufts, who recently lost his bid for a third term as mayor of Dorset, Minn., to 16-year-old Eric Mueller. Dorset has no formal city government, and people pay $1 per vote in the "election" with all proceeds going toward the annual Taste of Dorset Festival.
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Number of high schools in Montgomery County, Md., (out of 25) that are switching to a single color for graduation gowns in an effort to embrace transgender students. Most public schools have different color gowns for boys and girls.
Republican Susana Martinez remains committed to the controversial standards introduced five years ago to measure student proficiency in mathematics, language arts and literacy.
An executive order by Gov. Steve Beshear raises the minimum wage for employees of the executive branch of state government from $7.25 to $10.10 an hour.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, marveling at the escape of two fugitive murderers from a maximum-security state prison over the weekend. The inmates cut through a steel wall of their adjacent cells, shinnied down a series of internal catwalks, and burrowed their way more than a city block away before emerging from a manhole. The state is offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to the capture of the men.
Businessman Hasan Harnett says he can expand the Republican party's appeal to minorities.
His hometown paper has offered nothing more than wire reports and a stinging editorial suggesting that his bid will give Rhode Island a bad name.