Jack Evans

WASHINGTON — The new Metrorail Safety Commission’s CEO slammed Metro Board Chairman Jack Evans and other District politicians Wednesday over D.C.’s push to restore Metro’s former late-night hours.

Metro board members who represent the District will move this week to restore late-night service beginning in July, bringing back 3 a.m. closings for the first time in three years.

Mayor Muriel Bowser and Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans are pushing a $5.9 million tax break for an international company that has a history of racially discriminatory hiring practices in D.C.

Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder is getting help from District officials, congressional Republicans and the Trump administration as he tries to clear a major roadblock to building a new, 60,000-seat stadium on the site of RFK…

The D.C. Council on Tuesday cast a first vote in favor of bringing legal sports betting to the nation’s capital, pushing the city one step closer to becoming the first place in the Washington region to capitalize on the increasingly…

WASHINGTON — What are the odds that D.C.’s football team would lose two quarterbacks to broken legs this season?

The D.C. Council voted Tuesday to use millions of dollars in new revenue from online sales taxes to cut commercial property taxes, over the objections of advocates who lobbied to direct that funding toward homeless services instead.

Few dispute that D.C. needs a new hospital east of the Anacostia River. But the deal to build that hospital and have George Washington University Hospital run it has attracted critics - including George Washington University.

Despite the unanimous support of the local Advisory Neighborhood Commission and Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans, the resolution to call the D.C. block where the Saudi embassy resides “Jamal Khashoggi Way” will not move forward at the D.C.…

Sports betting is one step closer to becoming a reality in D.C.

The Washington Nationals, Monumental Sports and Entertainment, several major professional sports leagues, MGM, and daily fantasy sports sites DraftKings and FanDuel have joined together to get the D.C. Council to pass a bill that would…

Ward 8 Councilmember Trayon White has asked Jack Evans, Ward 2 Councilmember and chairman of the Council's finance and revenue committee, not to mark up a bill that would divert some $60 million in tax increment bond financing to a…

The George Washington University Hospital has the District over a barrel. And the D.C. Council is thinking of giving away one of the city’s biggest bargaining chips.

Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans has reported income of up to $350,000 in recent years from a consultancy he formed in 2016 with lobbyist N. William Jarvis, who has lobbied Evans since then on behalf of a client seeking a contract extension…

D.C. lawmakers punted a bill that would have given 16- and 17-year-olds the right to vote. The Youth Vote Amendment Act of 2018 appeared to have wide support on the Council until Ward 2 Coucilmember Jack Evans motioned to postpone a vote on…

The D.C. Council indefinitely delayed action on legislation to lower the voting age to 16, dealing a blow to efforts to make the nation’s capital the first jurisdiction to allow minors to cast ballots in presidential contests.

D.C. COUNCIL member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) does not bother with any pretense when he talks about a proposal to legalize sports betting in the District . He doesn’t gamble, doesn’t like gambling, and acknowledges the risks and dangers of…

WASHINGTON — Optimism and a sense of urgency surround a move to legalize sports betting in D.C., where leaders hope to beat Maryland and Virginia to the punch. “Sports betting is going to happen and I believe we should act before our…