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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.

Slate takes a look at the arguments for and against governments' regulating tanning beds. It's a fairly conservative take on the issue. The author, William ...
Google Maps are great. Love 'em. Super simple to use, and they make it easy to get around. (And hey, Yahoo Maps and MapQuest are ...
Sometimes it seems as if, for every piece of legislation, there is an equal and opposite loophole to render that legislation ineffective. Today's loophole comes ...
Are Houston dog-owners not feeding their pets enough? Houston tops the list of cities with the most mail carriers bitten by dogs. Houston was at ...
Idaho gubernatorial candidate Dan Adamson -- who lost this week's GOP primary election to incumbent C.L. "Butch" Otter -- has an interesting ...
Civil servants, you wouldn't lie to your boss for a million dollars, would you?  Well, okay, yes, probably you would. We all would. But ...
It's Summer 2006. Gas prices are soaring (!). People are complaining (!). The media is collapsing under the weight of the overused phrase "prices at the pump&...
Oh, New York Post. When I read this morning's news about the federal government cutting homeland security money for New York City and D.C., ...
When you think of mayoral hiring scandals, you think of, say, a cushy administration job for a political donor. Or maybe a sweet building contract ...
The current issue of New York magazine takes a really interesting look at the changes in urban planning and design that they city will undergo ...