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Zach Patton

Executive Editor

Zach Patton -- Executive Editor. Zach joined GOVERNING as a staff writer in 2004. He received the 2011 Jesse H. Neal Award for Outstanding Journalism for his GOVERNING story on economic cutbacks in Colorado Springs. He has served as an editor since 2010, and as Executive Editor since 2012.

Last week's episode of NPR's This American Life was completely devoted to the story of Harold Washington, Chicago's first (and so far only) black mayor, ...
School buses go green. USA Today KY gov-elect to throw "Kentucky themed" inaugural. Bold. AP Got a Heads Up for us? Email 13thfloor@...
Charlie Crist ?'s Wal-Mart. Palm Beach Post blog Eliot Spitzer vows to push for gay marriage next year. NY Post Richard Daley walks out of ...
I once got a massage at this spa that was, while itself a totally reputable and completely legit place, in a kind of borderline seedy ...
Governors have been ahead of the federal government on certain policy changes for years. But one of the most prevalent issues where the states are ...
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I grew up just a few miles from the Jack Daniels distillery in Lynchburg, Tennessee, so I can tell you a thing or two about ...
In AZ, "Sec of State" might become "Lt. Gov." AZ Daily Star In Portland, "Fourth Avenue" won't become "...
Should states get out of the marriage business? Stephanie Coontz thinks so. She's a history professor and the author of "Marriage, a History: How ...
Philly Mayor Street presides over same-sex commitment ceremony. NBC10 "FORNO 1" sounds kinda pervy to me. Houston Chronicle Ray Nagin is "disgusted" ...