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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.)

Christy Denault leaves Gov. Mike Pence's office after PR disasters with the state's Religious Freedom Restoration Act and botched plans to start a state-run news service called JustIN.
Matthew Dowd, a lawyer representing a Maryland couple who plans to sue Montgomery County after their children were seized from a park by police and taken into Child Protective Services for six hours. The couple practices "free-range parenting" and allows their children, ages 10 and 6, to walk around and play outside by themselves.
Gov. Doug Ducey on Tuesday vetoed legislation which would have made the sale and use of the new product illegal in the state.
The island becomes first U.S. territory to allow gay marriage.
Amount Chicago proposes paying dozens of torture victims connected to former Police Commander Jon Burge and his so-called midnight crew of rogue detectives, who solved murder, rape and arson cases by torturing suspects into confessing.
38%
Residents of Pickett County, Tenn., who are worried about climate change, which is the lowest percent of any U.S. county. Washington, D.C., residents are the most worried (74 percent), compared to 52 percent nationwide.
The D.C. Council on Tuesday rejected a controversial health-care contract proposed for the city’s jail after weeks of fierce arguments and heavy lobbying by supporters and opponents.
House Bill 1283 lost the support of its original advocates after the Senate amended it to prohibit students from skipping the ACT, work assessments or any test required to graduate or pass a certain grade level.
Charlie Baker's sweeping directive alarms advocates for labor and the environment.
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, after the legislative session ended in a standoff because the General Assembly refused to fund some of his budget requests. This is in contrast to the beginning of the session, when the Republican governor and the Democrat-controlled legislature pledged to compromise.