Jack Evans

When Congress established the District of Columbia Financial Control Board in 1995, it created the position of Chief Financial Officer, to be appointed by the Mayor, approved by the D.C. Council and subject to Congressional Review.

D.C. officials are reportedly considering a compromise that would keep Metro running later but push back its opening by 30 minutes, according to a top Montgomery County transportation official.

“THE LATE-NIGHT hours, I was not here when they first came into being. I did some research and saw that when they were put into being, David Gunn, who was the general manager . . . made the comment that this will be the demise of Metro. So…

The agency believes D.C. officials’ plan raises safety concerns for Metro, which is still catching up on long-ignored maintenance.

WASHINGTON — Metro moved closer Thursday to keeping its current hours for at least another year, even as the District threatened to block the plans in two weeks over concerns that the reduced service could remain indefinitely.

There are still two weeks left until the final vote on Metro’s operating hours, but a committee vote Thursday pushed back against a proposed return to previous late night service.

THE DISTRICT has threatened to wield its rarely used jurisdictional veto on the Metro board to force the rail agency to restore late-night service. Let’s hope the hard-line stance is merely a bargaining tool in the ongoing discussion about…

WASHINGTON — The Metro Board is moving toward extending current rail service hours for at least another year, over the District’s objections to continued service cuts.

At it stands, Democratic voters in Washington, D.C., will be last in the nation to weigh in on who should challenge Donald Trump in 2020’s presidential contest. But some local politicos want to change that.

The D.C. Council on Tuesday narrowly authorized the city to grant a sole-source contract to run its new foray into online sports betting, a move that concerns critics who believe the lucrative deal should be competitively bid.

Only two days after the Super Bowl — one of the most lucrative days for legal and illegal wagering — the D.C. Council took a first step towards ensuring that residents and visitors will be able to legally cast bets on the next big game.

The District of Columbia’s haste to get into sports betting is a sickening spectacle.

The Federal Transit Administration has warned Metro it could face financial hardship if it yields to pressure from the District by restoring late-night service, saying doing so would risk safety by reducing time for maintenance.

If D.C. officials have their way, residents and visitors will be able to cast legal wagers on sports at physical locations and by using an app by as early as this fall, beating every other jurisdiction in the Washington region and…

D.C. officials on Monday defended efforts to award a sole-source contract to run the city’s upcoming sports gambling program, insisting that the normal competitive bidding process would delay legal bettingand cost the city tens of millions…

The District’s chief financial officer said Monday that online sports gambling could begin as early as this fall. Bettors could wage phone-based bets on outcomes and performances of both pro and college sporting events.

TROUBLING QUESTIONS surround the interactions between D.C. Council member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) and a company seeking legislation favorable to its business interests. Mr. Evans, who also serves as chair of the Metro board, owes the public a…

D.C. Council member David Grosso called Friday for the creation of a special committee to investigate ties between fellow lawmaker Jack Evans and a digital-sign company.

A blockbuster report in the Washington Post found that Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans’ consulting firm received stock in an electric sign company right before he introduced legislation that would have directly benefited that company.