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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.

I've been meaning to post about this all week, but I'm just now getting a chance. The New York Times on Sunday had the most ...
Judging by the success of the Seattle Police Department's unconventional campaign to recruit officers from New York City, the cops in New York are itchin' ...
Think city streets are must be either driving lanes or pedestrian malls?  Think again, grandpa. The New York Times has this round-up of some ...
North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley looooves his three-day weekends: Easley's schedules for 2007 show only 10 Fridays over the course of the year with even a single ...
OR Gov. Ted Kulongoski might get the measles. Oregonian Chicago: "City of Children"? Sun-Times AZ gov's office not amused by April Fools prank. ...
Mike Huckabee's vision of Utopia: "Hucktown." Albany Times-Union NC Personnel Office accidentally tolerant of gays; fixes "mistake." Citizen Times Workers can't ...
The May issue of Popular Mechanics includes a special report on "Rebuilding America," what it's going to take to get our country's infrastructure ...
The Houston Chornicle has a nifty little profile on Darmeisha Bell, the Texas state employee in charge of making sure drivers' personalized license plates aren't ...
I wrote a couple weeks ago about overcrowing on U.S. cities' transit systems. But let's all take a moment to give thanks that our ...
The state of California this week launched its own YouTube channel. It brings together videos from several different state agencies -- including, as this San ...