Zach Patton

Recent Articles

• You Can Lead a Private-Sector Partner to Water...
• Jun 4, 2009
• Three of the nation's most notable governors -- Pennsylvania's Ed Rendell, New York's David Paterson, and California's Arnold Schwarzenegger -- have ...
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• The Promise -- and Peril -- of Web 2.0
• May 28, 2009
• What a difference a year makes!  At last year's Managing Technology conference in Seattle, the attendees spent a lot of time discussing Web 2.0 tools ...
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• The Key to Being an Effective CIO? Don't Act Like One.
• May 28, 2009
• Things are humming along at Governing's Managing Technology conference. I just got out of a standing-room only session on IT consolidation.  No surprise that ...
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• Pawlenty on the Tech Learning Curve -- And on Learning's Tech Curve
• May 28, 2009
• Improving and reinventing technology isn't a choice for governments -- it's a necessity. That was the message from Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, who ...

• The Role of Technology in the Stimulus -- And After It
• May 27, 2009
• Government technology is undergoing a shift unlike anything else in the past decade -- or perhaps ever. The federal stimulus plan is completely overhauling how ...

• Montana Town Wants to Gitmo Jobs, Gitmo Money -- and Maybe Gitmo Problems
• May 26, 2009
• President's Obama's pledge to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has created the ultimate NIMBY problem: Where will we put all the ...

• Fascinating Maps of Subways To Scale
• May 21, 2009
• While we're on the subject of maps, I just ran across these terrific maps of subway systems in different world cities, all drawn to ...

• Where Did Your Favorite Sitcom Take Place?
• May 21, 2009
• Love this map from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch site!  It uses Google Maps to plot the location of dozens of treasured (?) sitcoms. According to the ...

• Patti Blagojevich to Further Strain the Definition of "Celebrity"
• May 19, 2009
• So, remember all that fuss about how former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich wanted to appear on the reality competition show "I'm a Celebrity, ...

• DNA Exoneration: Too Real for Reality TV?
• Apr 17, 2009
• One of Governing's Public Officials of the Year 2008 was Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins. In fact, he was on the cover of our November ...
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• No Tofu in Colorado (Or the F-Word, Either)
• Apr 10, 2009
• Because it's Friday, and because we haven't had a good ol' personalized license plate story in a while, check out this story from ...
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• Grounded
• Mar 31, 2009
• If you want to fly into Rialto, California, you'd better do it soon. The airport in this city of 100,000 people, located 55 miles east of Los...
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• Wisconsin's New Logo: A $50,000 Mistake?
• Mar 30, 2009
• I'd heard about Wisconsin's newly redesigned logo a little while ago. The new tourism logo, for which the state paid a design firm $50,000, ...

• Cities Going Dim for 'Earth Hour'
• Mar 27, 2009
• Don't be alarmed tomorrow evening if the lights in your city are suddenly a lot dimmer. More than 2,000 cities across the globe will be ...

• Hawaiians Irked Over 'SNL' Skit
• Mar 12, 2009
• Last weekend's "Saturday Night Live" included a skit set in a Hawaiian resort. In it, SNL host Dwayne "No Longer Nicknamed '...
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