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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.

Today marks a significant milestone for the 13th Floor -- it's our 2,000th post! Obviously, a blog without readers is like a tree falling in ...
Hey, heard anything about Eliot Spitzer this afternoon? Well he just finished the world's shortest press conference, in which he issued what was, in the ...
An anti-gay speech made by Oklahoma state Rep. Sally Kern has hit YouTube, and the lawmaker is getting a lot of flak for it. Kern ...
Republicans traveling to Minneapolis [Ed. note: and St. Paul!] for the GOP national convention this summer will face the same last call everybody else does. ...
Wondering what New York First Lady Silda Spitzer was up to, uh, you know, before yesterday? In a bit of good timing, Domino magazine interviewed ...
Josh Goodman and Alan Greenblatt are double-teaming the Spitzer story over at Ballot Box. Check it out for updates. We'll post anything Earth-shattering here, too. ...
North Carolina OKs use of "gray water." News & Observer U.S. Bowling Congress leaves Milwaukee area for Arlington, TX. Journal Sentinel Got ...
The Chicago Transit Authority is launching a mystery-shopper program: It's looking for riders on bus and L trains willing to report back on transit troubles ...
This could be considered tooting my own horn, except I had nothing to do with this. Governing's textbook, Governing States and Localities, has won a 2008 ...
First, we find out that daylight-saving time might actually waste energy. Now comes word of another study that upends conventional wisdom: Red-light cameras may actually ...