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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.)

Amount of time New York City could survive on the water from rain that fell in Texas in the month of May.
State's Attorney for Baltimore City Marilyn Mosby, in an episode of Judge Judy in 2000. Mosby, who was then Marilyn James, has risen to prominence for indicting six officers in the death of Freddie Gray. She won her case (and $1,731.90 in damages) on the show against a neighbor who had broken into her apartment and trashed it when she was a student at Tuskegee University.
Average price for an ounce of marijuana in Washington, D.C. That's slightly above the $324 national average, even though pot is generally cheapest in states where it's legal.
The state's governor stepped up his criticism of what he called the Senate's "Obamacare Expansion Plan" and accused his fellow Republicans of trying to impose higher taxes on Floridians.
Friday officials said the state agreed to let Washington be the conduit to health coverage while Hawaii Heath Connector gets its act together.
Missouri legislators -- led by recipients of Smithfield Foods' political donations -- pushed through a controversial, last-minute measure to allow up to 1 percent of Missouri's agricultural land to come under foreign ownership. Now Shuanghui International of Hong Kong legally own the company's Missouri land. How did that happen?
Hamid Khan, co-founder of the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, arguing that police surveillance is becoming a form of social control.
Freddie Gray's neighborhood needs financial help, but who will pay?
A staff member at Chopticon High School in St. Mary’s County, Md., describing the cleanup of the students' senior prank that released 72,000 ladybugs inside the school. Police charged the students with burglary.
Danielle Meitiv, who was recently cleared of neglect in one of two investigations by Maryland Child Protective Services after she let her children (ages 10 and 6) walk home alone from a park. The Meitiv's decision sparked a national debate about "free range" parenting.