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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.

So the Vermont Agency of Agriculture wants you to help name the state's new dairy mascot: a Holstein cow wearing overalls. Which is fine, of ...
By now you've probably heard about the disturbing security video from New York's Kings County hospital. It shows a patient -- who's already been waiting ...
The Pentagon is heading for Birmingham!  Okay, not the Pentagon. But the Alabama city might be getting a shiny new five-sided building all its ...
Outside magazine just came out with its 2008 list of the "Best Towns" to live in. (Side Note:  I've been fortunate enough to ...
You know Flint, Michigan? The place so decimated by job losses that it's sort of become synonymous with Rust Belt poverty? Well, fear not!  ...
Plenty of city's have inspired songs or stories or, more recently, blogs. But where's the romance? Where's the epic poetry? Apparently, Detroit. In "The ...
Cities battling theft of copper wire? Old news. The big story now is about disappearing manhole covers. Take Philadelphia, as reported in the New York ...
Not quite sure how the topic of "last meals" came up, but the NY Post recently asked NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg about what ...
Texting-while-walking could become a crime in Illinois: Several officials, including the Illinois secretary of state, have voiced approval for a bill that would outlaw the ...
For the third year a row, Mississippi has been ranked the fattest state in the nation, with 32.6 % of that state's population coming in overweight or ...