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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.)

Excerpt from a letter sent from Valley, Ala., middle school principal Priscella Holley to parents urging them to stockpile cans of food in classrooms so students could hurl them at intruders.
With the help of his father, mother and little sister, Alex Mason is leading the charge to get cannabis businesses and charities much-needed access to banking.
Read and watch the governor's annual address.
Post Falls, Idaho, Police Chief Scott Haug, who was forced to issue an arrest warrant for a nine-year-old boy who failed to show up to his assigned court date for stealing a pack of gum. Haug said the child didn't come to court because his relatives had no way of getting him there.
37%
The decline in the number of marijuana seizures by U.S. officers along the Mexico border from 2011 to 2014. States' decriminalization of marijuana is leading Mexican cartels to shift to heroin and methamphetamine production.
Under new policy, if police suspect a person to be mentally ill they will, essentially, just back off.
Alanna Panas, who was kicked out of Berlin, Md.'s Ocean Downs Casino for breastfeeding her newborn in the building's lobby.