The D.C. Council on Monday unanimously advanced $1 billon to meet the District's share of a new $3.6 billion Washington Commanders stadium complex at the RFK campus. But the stadium deal is far from done.

Chairman Phil Mendelson called the DC Council budget proposal, which calls for $1 billion in funding for the new football stadium, a fair compromise.

While Washington, D.C. remained the frontrunner for the deal, with support from the Commanders franchise and NFL executives, the exclusivity clause that kept its stately neighbors from making their bids expired Tuesday. Leaving the ball in anyone's court -- or field, if you will.

Virginia’s House and Senate bills have broad language and no monetary cap for funding the potential Commanders stadium complex. “It’s an endless gravy train of subsidies,” one expert said.

D.C. Council has no leg to stand on with the Commanders stadium objection. It seems that the reason for the delay in the Council's voting process is some confusion over the full purpose behind the ...

The study claims to have found several notable risks from uncertain maintenance to parking and the lack of a comprehensive safety plan.

Tucked in the spending bill is approval for the district to take control of the abandoned RFK Stadium site to build a new one for the Washington Commanders.