Kathy Patterson

Join us for The Story of The Little Special Purpose Revenue Fund That Could. It could give and give and give, just not to the improvements it was set up to make.

APPEARING BEFORE the D.C. Council at the start of its consideration of Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s (D) proposed fiscal 2020 budget, the city’s independent chief financial officer, Jeffrey S. DeWitt, warned of “yellow flashing signals” in the…

Anyone who lived through the District’s financial crisis in the 1990s knows it was the kind of calamity this city must avoid repeating. I watched the event unfold from my perch on The Post’s editorial board, where we opined nonstop about…

In my budget certification letter, I state that the fiscal 2020 to 2023 budget and financial plan are balanced. I stand by that statement.

D.C. Auditor Kathy Patterson delivered a critically important message to the public the other day.

The D.C. official in charge of auditing government programs launched an unusual attack on the mayor’s proposed budget Monday, saying it is “not fiscally responsible” and could lead to the kind of spending that prompted a federal takeover…

As the District’s legislative auditor, I am already wringing my hands in worry over the rough time that Councilmembers are going to have in fashioning a Fiscal Year 2020 budget later this spring. They’ll be working without a windfall in…