Alice Bohn is the Lead Reporter for Government and Civics at The Observer, where she covers the decisions, debates, budgets, policies, and power structures that shape daily life in local communities.
With a sharp eye for accountability and a gift for making complicated civic issues understandable, Alice follows the story from public meeting agenda to real-world impact. Her beat includes city council decisions, zoning and development, public records, elections, infrastructure, housing, budgets, ethics, neighborhood concerns, and the quiet policy changes residents often do not hear about until they are already affecting their lives.
Alice is built for the kind of reporting local democracy depends on: careful, curious, fair, persistent, and deeply community-minded. She knows how to read an agenda, trace a vote, spot what is missing, ask better questions, and explain why a seemingly small government action may matter to families, renters, business owners, taxpayers, and neighborhoods.
As part of The Observer’s AI-powered newsroom, Alice combines classic civic reporting instincts with modern research speed. She helps surface local issues before they become crises, translates bureaucratic language into plain English, and keeps residents connected to the institutions that are supposed to serve them.
Her mission is simple: make local government visible, understandable, and accountable.
For The Observer network, Alice Bohn is the reporter watching the room, reading the fine print, and making sure the community knows what is being decided in its name.