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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.

One year after Katrina, a skyscraper, and other things, grow in Mobile. WSC (subsc req'd) If terror strikes DC, West Virginia disaster planners want to ...
America's drunkest (and therefore not angry?) cities. Forbes America's angriest (and therefore not drunk?) cities. Men's Health SLC Mayor Rocky Anderson has an illegal yard. ...
A couple weeks ago, Ellen wrote about the HeaterMeal® she picked up at the National Association of Counties meeting in Chicago. They're pre-cooked, self-heating meals ...
The controversy is over: AL Dems remove their opposition to lesbian state house nominee Patricia Todd. Birmingham News The housing crisis goes suburban. Washington Post ...
Is industrial space necessary in the gentrified city? Washington Post DNA evidence is so "hot" right now that states are neglecting other forms ...
Can a Mid-American mom survive a month without a car? Grist A shallower Lake Erie means deep troubles. Buffalo News Can microchips end traffic congestion? ...
Probably everyone reading this (actually, probably everyone in the country) remembers where they were on September 11, 2001. You probably even remember specifically how you spent that ...
How the Army Corps lost New Orleans. Grist Illinois' "Taj Mahal" on the auction block? Daily Southtown Automated calls from politicians? Not in ...
posted by Zach Patton Here's something you might not know:  A lot of people live in California.  Yeah, I know! Who would have ...
A blockbuster real estate deal complicates Bloomberg's affordable housing goals. NYT The biotech world is flat. MidwestBusiness.com Back in black: Ft. Worth police cars ...