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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.

Consolidation. That was the watchword as the nation's top public-sector technologists gathered in Baltimore this week for the midyear conference of the National Association ...
Call it City 2.0: a metropolis where officials instantly monitor all of the urban environment's constantly changing dynamics--the outside temperature; snow or rainfall; traffic; and perhaps...
Well, you can drink with impunity in Texas again. Okay, maybe not impunity, but you don't have to worry about getting arrested in a sting ...
Remember when you used to check in at the airport, and the airline employee would ask you if anyone had asked you to carry anything ...
Lobbying gift bans: Good for clean elections, bad for the local economy? That's what restaurants in Tallahassee are reporting. Bars and eateries in the state ...
One floor of the newly renovated West Virginia governor's mansion "will have something of a sports-bar atmosphere, with a wet bar, game room area, ...
posted by Zach Patton Clogging isn't a problem in Kentucky. In fact, Bluegrass lawmakers are celebrating clogging by making it the official state dance of ...
Yesterday, we wrote (actually, a couple times) about Kentucky lawmakers' unflinching resolve in the face of the War on Clogging. Now comes news that the ...
Wonkette has been chronicling the bizarre -- and hilarious! -- story of the header photo on the campaign website for New Orleans mayoral candidate Kimberly ...
UPDATE: Kimberly Williamson Butler has taken down the Disneyland photo from her website.  Disney: 1, Butler: 0. Oh, also:  Photoshop: 1.