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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.)

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Number of guns Bridgeton, Mo.'s Metro Shooting Supplies sold this week. The store normally sells 30 to 40 firearms a week, but some anticipate rioting after the grand jury concludes its investigation of Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting of Michael Brown.
Number of public school students (1.5 percent of the total) in San Francisco who are homeless. California has more homeless children than almost every other state.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's sarcastic Twitter birthday wish Monday to Speaker of the House John Boehner, who has backed raising the age of eligibility for Social Security to 70 and for Medicare to 67.
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Average decline in the rate of painkiller-overdose deaths two years after a state legalizes medical marijuana.
Archbishop Bernardito Auza, the Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, confirming that the official announcement that the pope will visit Philadelphia in September, 2015 almost certainly means other U.S. cities will be include, despite the fact that only the stop in Philadelphia has been confirmed by the Vatican so far.
Average increase in the price of a bottle of liquor in Virginia starting Dec. 8 in an effort to plug the state's $2.4 billion budget gap.
While Brower admits that he's not "100 percent comfortable" with his actions, he insists what he's doing is right.
Thomas French, assistant director for Massachusetts’ natural heritage program, on residents' fear of large cats. Winchester, Mass., sent out warnings last winter after large footprints were found in a snowbank. Biologists eventually decided they were made by a coyote or large dog.
Thousands of acres across the country were partially developed during the housing boom. What should happen to them now?
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Percent of households in the Denver suburb of Centennial, Colo., with Internet access, which is the highest rate of all U.S. cities with at least 100,000 residents.