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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.)

Total cost of New York City's advertising campaign telling men to stop “manspreading” (taking up too much space on the subway by spreading their legs widely).
Susan Wilson, executive director of the ACLU of Alabama, on "The Daily Show" talking about how an Alabama law (H.B. 494) uses state funds to appoint lawyers for fetuses.
19
Number of states that still allow corporal punishment in public schools.
Motto emblazoned in one of two new rugs in the lobby of the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office in Florida. The agency requested "In God We Trust" from the manufacturer, American Floor Mats. The sheriff's office is replacing the rug, which cost $500.
Washington Post columnist Petula Dvorak, on the lackluster turnout that lead to Virginia Del. Joseph Morrissey's re-election despite his jail sentence stemming from a relationship with a 17-year-old girl. Morrissey will serve in the state's House of Delegates and return to jail each evening to serve out his sentence.
He recommended tax hikes to make it happen.