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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.)

Legislators in a few states are fighting the rules.
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Number of Utah's 8 death row inmates who have chosen to die by firing squad since the state decided last week to bring back the execution method.
Revenue from the 350 varieties of specialty license plates available to residents of Texas last year. Texas' rejection of a license plate with the Confederate flag is now the subject of a free speech case before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Amount Maryland officials and Gov. Larry Hogan are willing to spend on transportation and infrastructure to persuade the FBI to move its headquarters from Washington, D.C., to Prince George's County, Md.
Gov. Doug Ducey, who campaigned on a promise to repeal Common Core, said the state is staying with the standards, at least for now.
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Increase in out-of-state undergraduate applications to the University of Colorado, Boulder since the state opened its first recreational marijuana store last year.
Number of district court lawsuits filed in 2014 by Dale Maisano, an inmate in Florence, Ariz., serving time for aggravated assault. Most of the suits were over food and health quality issues.
Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, singing to the tune of Passenger's "Scare Away the Dark" after a speech in Council Bluffs, Iowa, where he touted his accomplishments as governor.
In partnership with a theater company, Minnesota towns are staging on-the-go plays to tell their history.
Alaska lawmakers look to once-forbidden sources for money.