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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.)

Best-selling author Stephen King, after the Maine governor suggested that King moved out of Maine and no longer paid taxes in the state. While King has a residence in Florida, he and his wife also have houses in Maine.
Earlier this month South Miami passed a resolution to separate southern from northern Florida, because of climate change.
This reverses a circuit court decision last year finding that the law gave too much power to the Department of Correction to decide what drugs to use for lethal injections and how to administer them, in violation of the separation-of-powers doctrine.
William Justice, the auxiliary bishop of San Francisco, defending St. Mary's Cathedral for installing a system that every 30 to 60 minutes dumped water onto the ground near the cathedral's sheltered doorways where the homeless slept. The city forced the archdiocese to remove the system last week.
Approximate amount Ohio will pay Ricky Jackson, a 59-year-old Cleveland man who spent 39 years in prison for a 1975 murder he didn't commit.
State land management coordinator Barton Bibler was forced to undergo a psychiatric evaluation after he refused to scrub mentions of "climate change" from the official minutes of a department meeting where he says climate change was a major topic of discussion.
New Hampshire state legislator Warren Groen, speaking against legislation, drafted by fourth graders as a part of a project to help them learn how a bill becomes law, to designate the Red Tail Hawk as the state raptor.
Number of Uber cars operating in New York City, compared to 13,587 taxis.
John Bebout, adviser to the Alaska Constitutional Convention, on the Alaska Permanent Fund, a constitutionally established fund that manages the state's oil revenues through a state-owned corporation.
Amount Massachusetts health exchange officials racked up in taxpayer-funded expenses, including a harbor boat cruise, luxury hotel stays, and a $285 cake to celebrate the launch of the Affordable Care Act.