Zach Patton

Recent Articles

• Gruesome Hospital Vids Lead to Changes
• Jul 2, 2008
• By now you've probably heard about the disturbing security video from New York's Kings County hospital. It shows a patient -- who's already been waiting ...
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• Leaping into Light Rail
• Jun 30, 2008
• Hey! What do you know? It's cold!" Rick Simonetta isn't talking about the temperature in downtown Phoenix, which today is 92 degrees in the shade. What's...

• Vermont's Looking For A Boring Cow Name
• Jun 25, 2008
• So the Vermont Agency of Agriculture wants you to help name the state's new dairy mascot: a Holstein cow wearing overalls. Which is fine, of ...
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• WTF?? More License Plate Drama in North Carolina
• Jun 24, 2008
• OMG! What if your license plate had a swear word on it (or at least the slang-y approximation of one)?  It's an issue in ...
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• VA Legislators Save Brew Pops, Summer
• Jun 20, 2008
• Thanks to a couple of Virginia state legislators, residents of the Old Dominion state can once again enjoy a fanstatical summer treat -- frozen beer ...

• CA Nuptials Break Record
• Jun 19, 2008
• The LA Times has an interesting interactive map about the record-breaking number of marriages that have happened since same-sex unions were legalized on Monday night. ...

• South Carolina Will Be First State to Get "I Believe" Plates
• Jun 16, 2008
• South Carolinians will soon have the option to express their Christian faith via that most sacred of religious media: a vanity license plate: South Carolina's ...
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• At Least They Were Smart Enough to Change the Name of the State
• Jun 12, 2008
• State mental health care can be bad enough as it is. You don't need your state's mental health commission filing a report that, well, belongs ...
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• The City That Said No to Google
• Jun 9, 2008
• You can find anything on Google Maps (okay, not anything ). But you might not be able to find the town of North Oaks, Minnesota. The ...

• Eliot Spitzer's New Day Job
• Jun 4, 2008
• You can rest easy: Eliot Spitzer has found a day job. He's apparently working in his father's real estate empire. By all accounts, Eliot Spitzer ...

• Shave and a Haircut: $150,000
• Jun 2, 2008
• The city of Houston has had a ban on beards and goatees for its cops since 1993. Now, though, four officers are suing the city to ...
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• The Public-Records Question
• Jun 1, 2008
• from Governing's Managing Technology Conference in Seattle: At the final conference session on Friday, public sector leaders talked about how Web 2.0 is already changing government, bringing drastic changes in the coming years.
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• Debunking Conventional Lessons Learned
• May 29, 2008
• One of the mantras you keep hearing at this conference is how managing technology isn't really about about good technology, it's about good management. Or, as our publisher Peter Harkness likes to say, when it comes to IT, the focus used to be mostly on the "T." Now it's mostly on the "I."
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• Gov. Christine Gregoire: The Importance of the "Why"
• May 28, 2008
• After an extremely interesting pre-conference session on city 311 systems, Governing's Managing Technology conference officially kicked off this evening with an address from Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire.

• The 13th Floor -- Live from Seattle!
• May 27, 2008
• It's time for Governing's Managing Technology conference, so we're trading the unseasonably cool and rainy D.C. for the seasonably cool and rainy environs of ...
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