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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.)

Students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have been asking the school to change the name of Saunders Hall for years, but with national events such as the shooting in Ferguson, Mo., setting off strong emotions about race, campus protests have picked up urgency.
Gov. Mike Pence declared a public health emergency on Wednesday after 79 new cases of H.I.V. were confirmed in Scott County.
Development plans set off a preservation fight over a 65-year-old mural in a condemned building.
A powerful explosion in the East Village caused two buildings to collapse and ignited a fire that injured at least 19 people.
A health food store employee and a coworker say the Chicago mayor is a notoriously bad tipper, and once left a 37-cent tip on a seven-dollar shake.
The state hasn't yet found a way to fix its depleted transportation funding system. Nearly all the state's transportation money is dedicated to paying off more than $18 billion in debt, with little left for maintenance projects or new construction.
Cost of Louisiana's entertainment tax credits for every $1 of state revenue the credits generate.
Astrophysicist and director of the Hayden Planetarium Neil deGrasse Tyson, on Florida's alleged ban on using the words "climate change" and "global warming" in government communications.
Median annual household income of Seattle residents who identified themselves as middle class. The median income of Cleveland residents who identified as middle class, in contrast, was $32,000.
Spokesman for the Somerset County, Maine, Sheriff’s office, on the recent apprehension of a man for theft who sent a Snapchat to his friends revealing his hiding place. Someone informed the cops of the criminal's location, so they arrived at the residence and found the man hiding in a kitchen cabinet.