Zach Patton is a GOVERNING senior editor. He writes about a range of topics, including education, social policy issues, and urban planning and design. Patton is also the editor of GOVERNING's Management e-newsletter.
E-mail: zpatton@governing.comHeads Up: 1.16.07
The newest front in the War on Smoking? Apartment buildings. Seattle Times
MD's new delegates get ettiquette lessons from House's Miss Manners. WaPo
NM's Richardson wants a drug-dealer registry. Las Cruces Sun-News
Madison officials might be nation's first to protest gay-marriage ban in oath. CBS 5
How many benefit from Honolulu's new property-tax cut? Not many. Advertiser
ND's $20 traffic fines are called a joke. Bismarck Tribune
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