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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.

A student at the University of Alaksa Fairbanks has created a "massive Lego replica" of a new campus building. Here, he shows Alaska ...
Slate has posted this great video of some of the "stupidest" bicycle lanes in America. Earning the top prize? A 20-foot stretch of ...
Cities contemplating increasing the number of surveillance cameras may want to consider London's recent experience as a cautionary tale -- the city's huge camera system ...
Police in the town of Pine Lawn, Missouri, are getting a new vehicle: Pine Lawn aldermen voted 5-0 Monday night to support Chief Rickey Collins' ...
The New York Times special "T Magazine" issue on summer travel came out this Sunday, and it includes a feature on the Artists ...
More news today from Seattle:  Remember that Denny's that had been declared a historic landmark, preventing the owner, the Benaroya Companies, from tearing down ...
Like most states, Rhode Island is in a budget crunch. One partial solution, proposed by legislators last week, is a cap on art for public ...
Smart cars are here (even if they're not exactly setting the world on fire). So maybe they're not as fuel-efficient as people expect, and maybe ...
It's time for Governing's Managing Technology conference, so we're trading the unseasonably cool and rainy D.C. for the seasonably cool and rainy environs of ...
After an extremely interesting pre-conference session on city 311 systems, Governing's Managing Technology conference officially kicked off this evening with an address from Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire.