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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.

Things are humming along at Governing's Managing Technology conference. I just got out of a standing-room only session on IT consolidation.  No surprise that ...
What a difference a year makes!  At last year's Managing Technology conference in Seattle, the attendees spent a lot of time discussing Web 2.0 tools ...
Three of the nation's most notable governors -- Pennsylvania's Ed Rendell, New York's David Paterson, and California's Arnold Schwarzenegger -- have ...
The Supreme Court today ruled that judges who are elected must recuse themselves in "extreme" cases -- those in which the contributions to ...
Cities like New York and San Francisco have been aggressively marketing the drinkability of their tap water in recent months. With the skyrocketing number of ...
From Grist comes this very interesting story about one reporter's experiment with new media: When Adam Klawonn quit his job at a shrinking major ...
According to the New York Times , there's a hip new thing all the kids are trying these days: home funerals. Apparently, a growing number ...
This clip has been popping up all over the Internet this week (which is a little weird, since it's more than a year old). ...
Which current governor is represented by a bowl of oatmeal? Click to find out.
Ousted former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is on the air! Or at least the Internet. Blago will not be silenced! From the Chicago Sun-Times : He'...