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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.)

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Portion of recently hired New York City correction officers whose applications should have disqualified them.
24%
The decrease in the number of Washington, D.C., businesses with five to nine employees between 1998 and 2012. During that time, D.C.'s increase in big retailers outpaced the nation's by 30 percent.
A sign posted by Latosha Jackson-Martin outside her father's 50-year-old hair salon in Washington, D.C.'s Bloomingdale neighborhood, where rent in the now-trendy area has skyrocketed. "I can't afford to pay double the rent like other folks," she said.
Letter from the Utah Division of Motor Vehicles to Vietnam veteran Arnold Breitenbach, who wanted the license plate CIB-69 because he earned a Purple Heart in 1969. Utah, however, bans the number because of sexual connotations.
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Number of people in southeastern Indiana who have tested positive for HIV in the state's largest-ever outbreak of the virus among intravenous drug users.
Statement from the Federal Transit 
Administration, explaining how and why Massachusetts' troubled transit agency forfeited 
millions in unused federal money over the past decade. Meanwhile, the agency has blamed its problems on a lack of funding.
The lost funds would have helped subsidize various new construction projects.
Some 54 percent of registered voters in New Jersey disapprove of the governor's job performance.
The evidence that chemical abortions can be turned around, however, is incredibly thin.
Erik Leighton, who was police-escorted out of a "breastaurant" sports bar in Houston because according to a staff member, most face tattoos are gang-related and the area has had gang activity which sometimes leads to incidents at the bar.