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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.

When it happened in San Francisco, the problem was that a city official was trying to usurp state law through local action. Civics lesson learned? ...
Some Chicago tourists were miffed yesterday, when they showed up at the city's famous Millennium Park, only to be turned away. Toyota had rented the ...
The New York Police Department has joined the growing ranks of bloggers across the country who want to make their voices heard. They've started a ...
Things just keep getting worse better for Kentucky Gov. Ernie Fletcher, who may be found guilty of a crime punishable by up to 6 months in ...
You can do anything in New York City: Have baby food delivered at 4:30 am. Take the subway to a primeval forest. Gawk at an island ...
Everybody knows Eliot Spitzer. The New York attorney general has garnered national attention in the past few years for taking on everyone from power plants ...
Tourism officials in Fairfax County, Virginia yesterday announced a new marketing logo for the county: they're calling it "fxva." The new brand name ...
Ten states have adopted smoking bans in the past decade, including California, New York and Massachusetts, as well as several hundred individual cities and counties. ...
Hurricane Katrina killed over 1,000 people along the Gulf Coast, but one of the first legislative casualties may hit another shoreline, 1,000 miles to the north. The ...
Law enforcement officers and medical first responders in many parts of the country have begun pushing ICE -- a program to encourage citizens to enter ...