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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.)

A weekend when many had expected a decision by the grand jury became instead a weekend of uncertainty, with no word from the courthouse and confusion over how individuals and institutions should respond.
Some schools are improving grades by ramping up "blended-learning" programs
Former NYC mayor: "White police officers wouldn’t be there if you weren’t killing each other."
Longtime politician's death stuns D.C. residents.
Despite South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson's efforts, from Columbia to Charleston, couples lined up at probate courts to obtain the licenses.
Estimated number of Puerto Ricans who retire to the mainland United States each year.
Popular park and fountains opened as conservation calls ratcheted up.
Shawn Nesgis, wastewater collection supervisor with the Union, Calif. Sanitation District, whose crew found an heirloom diamond and sapphire ring to an area family whose 3-year-old son flushed it down the toilet in October. The ring had traveled 1/3 of a mile from the family's house.
Utah resident Jessica Steinhauser, expressing her surprise that she was allowed to wear a pasta strainer on her head in her driver's license photograph. Steinhauser said the strainer represents the satirical Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, which was created in 2005 to protest the teaching of creationism in Kansas public schools. The Utah DMV said people can wear whatever headgear they want in driver's license photos, so long as their face is visible.
The $333 million Columbia Pike streetcar, and an adjoining $217 million Crystal City line, had been hailed by advocates as the linchpin of redevelopment efforts along the congested pike and in Bailey’s Crossroads in Fairfax County, but it's not going to happen.