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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.

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The fast, high-rolling -- and illegal -- life of a state auditor. Times-Union Whoissick.org -- Google Maps for germaphobes. Gridskipper Vilsack joins Mondale's law ...
China gets a town where the women make all the rules. Ananova Wireless sensors to watch pollution, traffic, weather. MIT Tech Review Boise's so clean, ...
How farmers can stop global warming. Bismarck Tribune Adaptable coyotes thriving in cities & suburbs. WaPo New team clashes at beleaguered Texas Youth Commission. Dallas ...
After VA Tech massacre, TX House postpones debate on closing records for concealed handgun licenses. Texas Politics ATVs replacing horses on the range. LA Times ...
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I recently wrote a story for Governing on the rise of drug-resistant diseases, which will be published in the May issue. It's starting to be ...
New Mexico's new tourism campaign -- "The Best Place in the Universe" -- shows that the state has a pretty healthy ego (unlike ...
Small animals get CA legislature's attention. San Diego Union-Tribune NY Gov. Spitzer's idol. Washington Post Heads up -- literally! Great Falls Tribune Real blood spilled ...