
Liz Farmer -- Staff Writer. As GOVERNING's finance reporter, Liz covers state and local budgets, pensions and other public-sector fiscal issues. Before joining GOVERNING, Liz wrote for the Washington Examiner, where she covered D.C. city hall politics and local government. She also covered the regional economy and development and has written extensively on the region’s rapidly changing socio-economic structure. Liz is a native of the San Francisco Bay Area and remains a devoted Bay Area sports fan. She and her husband live in Rockville, Md. Email lfarmer@governing.com