Brown: Ratings agencies should remove D.C.’s negative outlook

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D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown said Monday that he’s hopeful a visit to New York last week by District leaders will persuade credit ratings agencies to remove the “negative outlook” label for the city’s financial future.

“I think we have shown the District is moving in the right direction,” Brown said. “”I do believe we made the case very well that we at least need  to be off of negative outlook.”

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