Mayor Vincent C. Gray and D.C. Council members have said they want to keep the city’s public neighborhood libraries open seven days a week. But Jack Evans has accused them of being all talk and no action. They certainly didn’t provide more funding to achieve their goal in the recently approved fiscal year 2013 budget.

“Coming from a small town in Pennsylvania, the library was like a view on the world. I’m not in that small town because of the library,” the Ward 2 legislator told me. He has introduced legislation mandating Sunday hours at all branches.