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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.)

Amount the Alaska city of Fairbanks has spent to appeal a $37.50 campaign-violation fine levied against its mayor.
Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe, on his decision to pardon his son’s 2003 felony conviction for marijuana possession.
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Percent of Americans with a favorable view of the Democratic party, which is the lowest in at least two decades, according to a new Gallup poll. The GOP's favorability rating is 42 percent.
Patricia O'Neill, the Montgomery County, Md., School Board vice president, on the backlash the board received after it decided to remove the names of all religious holidays from its school calendar.
Adam Weinstein, writing about how police outside of Sacramento, Calif., have been responding to more 911 calls from visitors to the Cool Patch Pumpkins corn maze in Dixon, Calif. The center, which holds the Guinness world record as the largest corn maze, recently added 20 more acres, confounding regular participants.
Amount approved by voters in Katy, Texas, last week to be spent on a new high school football stadium.
Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto, on the future of political movements in the United States.
Chance a resident of Las Vegas has been reported to a debt-collection agency.
Former President George W. Bush, on the chances that his brother, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, will run for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. Jeb is "wrestling with the decision," President Bush explained.
Payment allegedly offered by a 32-year-old man in Florida to a prostitute who was actually an undercover police officer.