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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.)

Soda tax opponent Roger Salazar, explaining why Berkeley, Calif., becoming the first to charge higher prices for sweetened beverages won't matter for the rest of the country.
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Average tenure (in years) of a school superintendent in the country’s largest urban school districts in 2014.
Clatsop County, Ore., District Attorney Josh Marquis, explaining that the legalization of recreational marijuana does not mean that there will be no legal consequences for the use of the drug.
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Number of pages used in “Lessons from the Trail,” a public letter released by Republican Neel Kashkari explaining his feelings about losing the California gubernatorial contest to incumbent Jerry Brown.
New slogan introduced by Maryland's Prince George's County in a $500,000 "rebranding" campaign. Over the next few weeks the county's ad campaign will appear over radio, billboards and social media to change the way people think the long-derided region of Washington, D.C.
Approximate cost of one "I voted" sticker, which is given to people who cast a ballot in most states.
@_MatthewThomas, pointing out on Twitter that Taylor Swift's schedule for next year indicates she's performing at Nationals Park in "Washington, D.C., Md."
Maine customers still without power on Tuesday following a weekend snowstorm, causing massive disruption to the state's election.
Anne Arundel County Councilman Dick Ladd, on how "neo-confederate theocrat" Michael Peroutka became the Republican candidate for the county council of the Maryland suburb -- and won.
Spending on state judicial elections—which increased tenfold between 2002 and 2012—might be affecting verdicts in criminal cases. Judges were seven percent more likely to side in a defendant's favor before Citizens United than after.