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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.)

U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman said Bruce Rauner lacked standing to challenge public unions, in his case seeking to prevent non-union public employees from paying a share of collective bargaining costs, because he had "no personal interest at stake."
Harry Relkin, New Mexico's land office counsel, referring to the state's effort to build a fabricated town filled with schools, roads, airports and malls -- but no residents -- for city planning purposes. "The Center for Innovation, Testing, and Evaluation" will be the largest scale testing center on Earth.
Political activist Zack Kopplin, who is also a family friend of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal. In 2008, Jindal signed a bill that allows science teachers to include creationism in their lessons.
Number of states where someone earning the state minimum wage can afford a market-rate one-bedroom apartment.
63%
Americans who support raising the minimum wage to $15 by 2020.
74%
Americans who support physician-assisted suicide or "aid-in-dying" for terminally ill people -- a practice legal in only a few states.
1/3
Portion of cities in Washington state that have banned marijuana shops since the substance was legalized there in 2012.
Increase in revenue from U.S. cigarette sales since 2004, despite a 16 percent decline in smoking during the same period.
Rachel Gilmer, associate director at the African American Policy Forum, criticizing the Obama administration's My Brother’s Keeper program for excluding young women.
Even as it has received praise for reducing violent crime, the New Jersey police department has struggled to retain officers since it was formed two years ago.