If you’re in need of a used fire boat (or plenty of other random vehicles), look no further than the D.C. government.

Surprise! D.C. closed a corporate tax loophole, and saw a bunch more tax revenue as a consequence.

Where do they candidates in the D.C. Council At-Large special election race stand on what to do with the $417 million surplus? We asked them.

The District is on pace to finish the current fiscal year with a $140 million budget surplus, Mayor Vince Gray’s office announced today, with $23 million being raked in by the city’s new traffic cameras.

Mayor Vince Gray is running around Lower Manhattan today visiting all three major credit-rating agencies, lobbying for an increase in the District’s municipal bond ratings, which have been unchanged since 2009.

Ah, the District of Columbia government surplus sale. It’s always a source for some fun. You never really know what the city is going to be trying to offload.

It was on Tuesday that D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee casually dropped the bomb on D.C. Council members that she planned to pay for a significant portion of large teacher raises, a crucial component of her hard-won tentative agreement with the Washington Teachers’ Union, at least in part with $34 million in surplus funds that no one knew existed. But on Thursday, D.C. CFO Natwar Gandhi dropped a bomb of his own: he told…