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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.)

Tax revenues lost by the states in 2011 from corporations and rich people keeping money in foreign countries. The treasury secretary recently proposed reforms to stop the practice.
Joe Allbaugh, a conservative Republican who was campaign manager for both George W. Bush and Rick Perry and a former FEMA director. Allbaugh is now an investor in and board director of Colorado-based CannLabs, which calls itself “a leader in cannabis innovation” and specializes in the testing of pot potency and quality. Allbaugh says he got interested in marijuana when his wife developed cancer.
Range of percentage of land owned by the government in most cities.
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Percent of Americans under age 30 who think there's “a lot of useful, important information that is not available on the Internet.” Over 30 years old, 53 percent agree.
U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, responding to angry tweets she'd received over a passage in her new book in which she refers to Arlington, Va., as a "soulless suburb" outside of Washington, D.C. Gillibrand did not, however, indicate that she had mischaracterized Arlington.
100
Number of onions stolen from a school garden in Waterville, Maine that were to go to a local homeless shelter and the school's kitchen. Fifth grade teacher Mary Dunn then used the incident to give her students a lesson about "making mistakes, taking responsibility and coming together when things don’t go as planned."
Bird species in North America — including the bald eagle — are at risk of severe population decline by 2080 if the swift pace of global warming continues.
Average per capita income within three miles of a major U.S. coal plant.
Unnamed "senior District official" quoted in a withering 115-page audit of the three agencies that issue Washington, D.C.'s parking tickets. The audit portrayed parking ticketing in the city as arbitrary and inconsistent.
63
Percent of consumers aged 18 to 29 who don't have a credit card, compared to only a third of Americans over 30. About two-thirds of consumers with more than one credit card are over 50.