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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.

Rounding out this week's stories on Official State Fish and Official State Dances That Sound Like Coronary Problems, the New Hampshire Senate has voted to ...
If you have a few million dollars lying around, and if you've always wanted your name attached to an unsightly, congested roadway, has Chicago got ...
Here's a story you're definitely going to see repeated throughout the upcoming election season. So, as a helpful feature for the media, here's a stock ...
Yesterday's Wikipedia-tampering story is today's campaign-manager-resignation story. After being accused of tampering with an opponent's Wikipedia bio, the campaign manager for Georgia Secretary of State ...
Here's some fun end-of-the-week irony. Civic leaders in Atlantic City, NJ, are organizing a petition drive to make sure their city's landmarks remain on the ...
So, you're a really rich corporation just dying to put your name on something in Chicago, but renaming the Skyway isn't your thing. Don't worry! ...
Voters in Northern Virginia are heading to the polls today for town and city council races. In the town of Herndon, the mayoral race could ...
Tourism officials in South Dakota and Iowa may have struck a goldmine: Free gasoline. South Dakota announced its "Twenty Bucks for the Road" ...
Well, that was fast! New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine has given up his week-old quest for self-serve gas. It was too controversial, he said. "...
New Lenox, IL, Mayor Mike Smith recently racked up a $1,500 charge in one visit to a Chicago strip club. It's deplorable, it's disgusting, blah blah ...