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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.)

Bobby White, founder and executive director of charter school operator Frayser Community Schools in Memphis, Tenn., on the characteristics he's looking for in teachers.
The court rules that Gov. Dave Heineman has the authority to approve the project’s route without review by a state agency.
"The police are merely a representative of a government formed by the people for the people—for all people," Steve Anderson writes.
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Portion of Vermont schools identified as not making Adequate Yearly Progress. Vermont is one of eight states that didn't get a waiver from the No Child Left Behind law and must follow its complicated school improvement processes.
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Reduction in criminal summons issued in New York City, compared to this time last year. Police union leaders denied an organized slowdown, but for the past two weeks, the NYPD drastically scaled back law enforcement.
Average amount Louisiana hospitals bill patients for compiling rape kits.
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Number of the 16 original directors of the state-based health exchanges that have resigned since the online marketplaces launched.
Headline on an editorial in a local Maryland paper after Frederick County Councilmember Kirby Delauter threatened to sue the newspaper for using his name without his permission. The tongue-in-cheek editorial proceeded to use Delauter's name another two dozen times and also spell out k-i-r-by-d-e-l-a-u-t-e-r using the first letter of each paragraph in the article.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, delivering the eulogy for his father, former Gov. Mario Cuomo, on Tuesday.
Value of Nike sneakers that a Massachusetts man gave as bail to Framingham District Court. The man said he lacked money for bail because he was going through a divorce, so the judge let him be creative.