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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.

Texas Governor Rick Perry is being quoted all over the Internet and mainstream media today, for what he said to a reporter offhand after an ...
When the nation's governors convene in Des Moines this weekend for the annual meeting of the National Governors Association, ideas about good governance won't be ...
  The DC Metro has announced it will allow riders to bring their Segways on subway trains (b ut not on buses).  Although the ...
That's what Florida State Senator Gary Siplin told a local television reporter--48 TIMES!---when he was asked about alleged undocumented campaign spending. The Democrat from ...
The New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission has approved a plan that will add six new hybrid electric models to the city's streets.  ...
Those newly approved hybrid-electric New York City cabs I exalted last week may not be all that great after all. In a story unrelated to ...
The town of Easthampton, MA, recently put up road signs directing drivers to Routes 10 and 141.  The signs sho wed the road numbers against a ...
Andrew Rasiej is an obscure candidate running for an arcane office: He's campaigning to be the Democratic nominee in the race for New York City's ...
As the Newark Star Ledger reports this morning, acting New Jersey Governor Richard Codey just can't get enough titles. In addition to serving in one ...
What's in a name? Well, for a town willing to call itself "Dish," maybe some electronics equipment and a few HBO stations. EchoStar ...