The impact of Croson on equal protection law and policy.
I. Introduction In many respects the Supreme Court's 1989 decision, City of Richmond v. J.A Croson Co.,(1) was the most significant civil rights case of the nineteen eighties. It set new standards of review in equal protection cases and quickly became a decisive precedent in the areas...

Disregarding intent: using statistical evidence to provide greater protection of the laws.
I. INTRODUCTION The year is 2015. The Governor of California has recently announced the startling statistic that fifty percent of the state government construction contracts awarded this year went to minority-owned businesses. This percentage is extremely high given that minority-owned businesses averaged roughly fifteen percent of such...

Minority Supplier Development Council Names Exelon Corporation of the Year.
Parent Company of PECO Recognized for Innovative Minority Business Development PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The Minority Supplier Development Council (MSDC) of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware (PA-NJ-DE) recently named Exelon, the parent company of PECO, as its 2006 National Corporation of the Year for exemplary minority...

Confessions of a "woman-owned business" owner: how I learned to love quotas.
WELL, I FINALLY did it. I bit the bullet and got certified as a WOB: a woman-owned business. It took a roots-up, religious-type conversion--I'd walked in darkness, then I saw the light. And now that I am a proud--or do I mean "humble"?--official victim, my company is entitled to...

Eight Firms Named Winners of Greater Baltimore Committee's 2006 'Bridging the Gap' Minority Business Awards.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Eight companies have been named as winners of the Greater Baltimore Committee's 2006 Bridging the Gap Awards honoring minority-owned and women-owned firms for achievement and others for their efforts to strengthen minority business opportunities in the Baltimore region. Minority-owned business winners range...

Think globally, act locally to make the region greener.
Byline: Joseph Zwirblia COLUMN: AS I SEE IT As I see it, the developing energy crisis with oil at $100 a barrel should send shockwaves throughout our community. Oil or petroleum products drive the economy and prices are rising everywhere. Lack of outrage...

Preferred Members: Affirmative action for all, except white males.
The Bush administration has decided to support race and gender preferences, in the very first case involving them to come before the Supreme Court this year. And this decision is being greeted on the right with what can only be called wishful thinking. The case, Adarand v....

NMBC to Honor AOL-Time Warner, Citigroup, Turner Construction At Annual Awards Luncheon.
Weil, Gotshal & Manges' Executive Partner to Chair Luncheon NEW YORK, Jan. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Minority Business Council, Inc. will honor America Online-Time Warner, Inc., Citigroup Inc. and Turner Construction Corp. for their support of minority entrepreneurship at the Council's 21st Annual Business...

BUSINESS DATEBOOK.
Byline: The Register-Guard Calendar TUESDAY LeTip of Eugene - Weekly breakfast meeting of business leads exchange club. Time: 7:01 a.m. to 8:31 a.m. Place: Town Club, 975 Oak St., Eugene. Contact: Ron Smith at 681-4422. THURSDAY Women's Business Network...

Big Government and Affirmative Action: the Scandalous History of the Small Business Administration.
By Jonathan J. Bean Louisville: University Press of Kentucky, 2001. Pp. xii, 224. $29.95 cloth. In Big Government and Affirmative Action, Jonathan J. Bean tells the story of the role of small business in the growth of the American state. This compact account is a fine sequel...