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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.)

Ernestine Chasing Hawk, on the Oneida Indian Nation's decision to open a casino in Chittenango, N.Y., the hometown of Wizard of Oz author L. Frank Baum, and call it Yellow Brick Road Casino. The Oneida Nation is leading a campaign to change the name of the Washington Redskins, deeming it offensive, though in the course of his career, Baum wrote several articles urging the total annihilation of American Indians.
Cassie Lauterette of Loudoun County, Va. Despite being one of the most affluent communities in the United States, it's facing a school budget shortage and has proposed offering full-day kindergarten only by charging parents a fee.
Some municipalities have made 21 the legal age, but Rhode Island would be the first state.
A problem with a contract in 2013 deprived the stores of scratch tickets and cost $6 million in lost gambling revenue last year.
An emergency dispatcher to a 13-year-old girl who called 911 after her father was struck and killed while changing a tire on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway last Sunday.
The amount Washington, D.C., spent on memorial services for former Mayor Marion Barry, who died in November.
96%
Average increase between 1997 and 2014 in the value of a house located within a half-mile radius of a Starbucks in the United States.
Scott Walker changes would have struck pieces about state outreach, improving the human condition and pursuing truth in favor of more narrowly defining state campuses as agents of workforce development.
Reporter Will Sommer, revealing that Christopher Barry, who's running for the Washington, D.C., City Council, has never voted in a D.C. race -- including the six in which his father, the late Mayor Marion Barry, was a candidate.