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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.

The Memphis Pyramid is quite possibly the biggest municipal white elephant in the U.S. today. Built in 1991 for $68 million, the huge arena was never ...
Thousands of residents in Houston -- including the mayor! -- are in flagrant violation of a city law. So....the city's doing away with ...
Be sure to read Governing's Ballot Box blog this week for all your state and local elections news. Governing staff writers Josh Goodman and ...
Think the annual financial report from an airport sounds like a boring read? Then you should check out Birmingham International Airport's "Report & Accounts 2007-2008."
If your frog-calling skills are a little rusty, better brush up!  The state of Georgia is looking for some help: Wildlife biologists need volunteers for ...
posted by Zach Patton Last week, the people of Silverton, Oregon (pop. 9,588) elected Stu Rasmussen as mayor -- the first openly transgender person to serve as mayor in U.S. history.
New York City's gilttering night skyline is an iconic symbol of the city. But it's also becoming a thing of the past, as ...
According to the CDC, Huntington, W.Va., is the unhealthiest town in the nation: Nearly half the adults in Huntington's five-county metropolitan area are ...
Since the late 1980s, cities have bought heavily into the "broken windows" theory: the notion that an unkempt, disorderly environment breeds crime. Leaders ...
In an effort to expose problems in the New York City register's office -- namely the fact that city clerks aren't required to ...