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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.)

Lawyer Gary Giacomini, announcing film director George Lucas' plans to build low-income housing on his 1,039-acre ranch in Marin County, Calif. The median price of a house listed there is $950,000.
Number of gallons of water California uses every year to grow almonds, which is more than the state's residents use indoors. Farms, however, are exempt from the state's water restrictions.
Range of parked cars with disability placards or license plates on 10 blocks in Washington, D.C. Only 5.3 percent of working-age Americans have ambulatory disability.
The Legislature approved a request from Gov. Asa Hutchinson to use $2.65 million in rainy-day funds to pay to put people in Texas jails.
Percent of students (519 of them) in Madison, Wis., whose parents refused to let them take the state's standardized tests this year. That's up from 87 last year.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich, indicating on "Meet the Press" that he's awaiting a signal from God to determine whether or not to make a presidential bid. But the governor is active on the campaign trail, just in case.
Ex-Washington, D.C., Councilmember Jim Graham, who lost his re-election bid last year and is now a special events director for a strip club. The gay former politician is helping the owner start a weekly gay night with male strippers at the female nude dance club.
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Portion of children born in the United States to mothers who get Medicaid benefits.
The $1.3-billion iPad effort was a signature program under then-Supt. John Deasy. But it faltered almost immediately during the fall 2013 rollout of the devices. Questions later arose about whether companies involved enjoyed an advantage in the bidding process; an FBI criminal investigation is ongoing.
Gov. Sam Brownback will sign a welfare reform bill that has gained national attention Thursday morning at the Department for Children and Families service center in Topeka.