Lisa Rein
Reporter

Lisa Rein covers the federal workforce and issues that concern the management of government. At the Post, she has written about state politics and government in Annapolis, Md. and Richmond, Va., local government in Fairfax County, Va. and the redevelopment of Washington and its neighborhoods.

She was previously a reporter for the New York Daily News, where she covered former Mayor Rudy Giuliani and the city’s colorful taxi industry. Before crossing the Hudson River, she chronicled Asian immigration to Northern New Jersey for The Record of Hackensack. Lisa started her daily newspaper career at The Patriot-Ledger in Quincy, Ma., where one of the biggest scandals of the late 1980s was the gold spray-painting by vandals of Plymouth Rock. She grew up in Boston and graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.

Latest by Lisa Rein

AFGE elects president

Lisa Rein

Government workers union chooses new president who promises to raise visibility of fed workers.

Stepped-up computer monitoring of federal workers worries privacy advocates

Stepped-up computer monitoring of federal workers worries privacy advocates

Lisa Rein

The stepped-up monitoring of federal workers is raising red flags for privacy advocates, who have cited the potential for abuse. Among other concerns, they say they are alarmed that the government has monitored federal workers — including the FDA scientists, starting in 2010 — when they use Gmail, Yahoo or other personal e-mail accounts on government computers.

Federal government’s largest union elects new president

Lisa Rein

Jeffrey David Cox, Sr. is a nurse who worked for the Department of Veterans Affairs.

GSA holds travel rates steady

Lisa Rein

The reimbursement rate for government travel will not change in the next fiscal year, the General Services Administration announced Tuesday, quelling hotel industry concerns that rates would plunge in a move to cut costs.

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