Today the Post is reporting that WMATA’s Board of Directors is quietly discussing whether to dismiss head honcho Richard White, whose troubled nine-year tenure at the transit agency has been marked by controversy and criticism. Ironically enough, the Post notes that one of the issues that might provoke White’s dismissal is a series of articles that appeared in the newspaper in June that detailed over $1 billion in mismanaged spending.

This instance serves as a good example of how the Post, over the course of the last year, has fulfilled its duty as the city’s newspaper of record by uncovering political shenanigans and forcing public officials to account for mistakes they may have made. More importantly, as in White’s case, those officials have faced the prospect of losing their jobs.