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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.

Don't be alarmed tomorrow evening if the lights in your city are suddenly a lot dimmer. More than 2,000 cities across the globe will be ...
I'd heard about Wisconsin's newly redesigned logo a little while ago. The new tourism logo, for which the state paid a design firm $50,000, ...
Because it's Friday, and because we haven't had a good ol' personalized license plate story in a while, check out this story from ...
One of Governing's Public Officials of the Year 2008 was Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins. In fact, he was on the cover of our November ...
So, remember all that fuss about how former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich wanted to appear on the reality competition show "I'm a Celebrity, ...
Love this map from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch site!  It uses Google Maps to plot the location of dozens of treasured (?) sitcoms. According to the ...
While we're on the subject of maps, I just ran across these terrific maps of subway systems in different world cities, all drawn to ...
President's Obama's pledge to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has created the ultimate NIMBY problem: Where will we put all the ...
Improving and reinventing technology isn't a choice for governments -- it's a necessity. That was the message from Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, who ...
Government technology is undergoing a shift unlike anything else in the past decade -- or perhaps ever. The federal stimulus plan is completely overhauling how ...