Alice Rivlin

Alice M. Rivlin, who died Tuesday at 88, was not some callous budget maven or austere fiscal hawk who cared only about balanced budgets and financial austerity. She wanted government to work and investment to flow back into the District in…

FOUNDING DIRECTOR of the Congressional Budget Office. Vice chair of the Federal Reserve. Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget. Senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Co-chair of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s…

Despite the D.C. Council's desire to fast-track sports betting in D.C., a citywide mobile sports gambling app won't be available until January 2020 at the earliest. A recent report from the Council's finance and revenue committee expresses…

Former Mayor Tony Williams recalls her local touch

Alice M. Rivlin, a master of budgetary policy who held senior positions in the executive and legislative branches of government — notably as founding director of the Congressional Budget Office — and whose stewardship of the D.C. Financial…