Jack Evans

Dr. Gandhi has been instrumental in overseeing the financial resurrection of the District of Columbia and in generating an overall financial structure for the city that not only has provided annual surpluses but also has infused Wall Street with the confidence to, year-after-year, improve the city’s bond ratings and lower our cost of capital.

In this column, I typically try to focus on the types of issues that make the news and are important ...

Our first legislative session of the fall was this week, and I’m looking forward to finishing out the year ...

Summer is over, and the kids are all back at school. The routine has returned, and with it the District ...

I read with great concern a recent Washington Post article, “Surge in D.C. tax office settlements reduces commercial property ...

As I write this article, the Washington Nationals have the best record in Major League Baseball. It has been widely ...

Last week, the Council received an unusual amount of attention when it considered how a pending bill regarding taxicab modernization ...

Is it summer yet? I think that with the arrival of July 4th and high temperatures reaching 100 degrees we ...

I was pleased by the Mayor Gray’s decision to reappoint Natwar Gandhi to another term as the District’s ...

Given recent events and the attendant media scrutiny on the Council, I wanted to take a moment to highlight some ...

This month, I passed a personal milestone. On April 30, it was the 21st anniversary of my being elected to ...

Beginning on May 9, the council members got together around one table to discuss our budget priorities and contrast those ...

The District borrowed $584 million to build the stadium and though development around the stadium has been slowed, the District's several sources of revenue to pay off the loan has raised millions of dollars more than necessary to pay the annual debt service obligations.

Last week, Mayor Vincent Gray submitted his Fiscal Year 2013 budget proposal to the Council. The total proposed budget for ...