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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.)

Virginia Republican Party Chairman Pat Mullins. After being convicted on a charge related to his relations with a 17-year-old girl, Morrissey announced Thursday that he would resign and run again for his seat in January.The politician's plea agreement allows him to report to jail at night but continue to serve in the legislature during the day.
Average amount U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials paid in 2012 to build each of 21 houses for employees in rural Ajo, Ariz., where the average market price of a house was $86,500.
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Percent of New York's public housing units deemed “deficient” by the city housing authority.
A new report indicates that although California will grow hotter with global warming _ turning more mountain snow to rain _ most of the state will not be appreciably worse off.
Washington, D.C., activist Adam Eidinger, who led the effort to put marijuana legalization on this year's ballot. The measure passed, but a paragraph in Congress' $1.1 trillion spending bill would effectively prohibit the city from instituting the new law.
Brian Jorg, manager of the native plant program at the Cincinnati Zoo, where squirrels are destroying the institution's 2-million bulb holiday light display by chewing through the wires.
All states have a stake in how trillions in federal dollars are spent, but it matters more to some states than to others.
While the latest weather should be good news for a state starved for water, experts say that one storm will just not offer enough rain relief.
Marc Kilmer, senior fellow at the Maryland Public Policy Institute, on New York's cigarette tax, which is the highest in the nation. New York has suffered a huge loss of tax revenue and is dealing with a complicated, and potentially dangerous, black market in tobacco sales.
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Number of New York City police officers wearing body cameras as part of a pilot program started this fall.