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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.)

During the Great Recession, the cash-strapped state borrowed billions to fund unemployment insurance. It's still paying for it.
A Facebook post from Stephanie Chafee, the wife of former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee who launched his long-shot bid for president earlier this week. Chafee's campaign lost track of the log-in information to his page that staffers started and managed for him while he was governor.
Nate Bell has dropped the Republican Party and is now an independent.
Highway construction opponent Charles Marohn, explaining how he came to support a plan to reduce the gas tax dramatically and turn almost all responsibility for the federal highway system to the states.
A tweet from a mother in the suburbs of Philadelphia after her child's teacher made parents sign a permission slip before their kids could eat one Oreo each in a science class.
The decline in water usage in California from April 2013 to April 2015, the month the governor ordered residents to cut their usage by 25 percent.
One concern about the new law is the lack of a requirement for people registering to provide identification.
53%
Portion of Houston's 2015 valedictorians who began school as English-language learners.
The state can now collect nearly half a billion dollars more in revenue.
George Kelling, one of the creators of the 1982 "Broken Windows" theory that maintaining public order helps prevent crime, referring to the zero-tolerance policies that many cities adopted in an attempt to put his theory into practice.