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Hispanic-owned businesses double from 2002 to 2013

The number of Hispanic-owned businesses in the U.S. is expected to nearly double this year from 2002.

NAACP files complaint against Milwaukee over city contracts

The Milwaukee branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People on Tuesday filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice against Milwaukee alleging the city has failed to comply with civil rights and equal-opportunity laws in its procurement system.

Contractor quick pay: Will it compute?

By Marie Rohde

staff writer

Everybody wants to be paid promptly. For some subcontractors, especially smaller businesses, it can be a life or death issue.

Milwaukee may force primes to pay faster (UPDATE)

By Marie Rohde Milwaukee can take its first step toward race and gender equity on projects simply by requiring prime contractors pay subcontractors more quickly, according to an alderman backing […]

Quiet confidence

Minority Contractor of the year Khary Penebaker, The Penebaker Enterprises LLC

High-speed rail grants lack DBE goals

By Sean Ryan Minority contractors are asking how $8 billion in national high-speed rail grants were awarded without the same contracting goals that apply to highway projects. The rail grants […]

Minority contracting sparks civil rights war

Sean Ryan [email protected] Harry Alford’s nationwide blitzkrieg of civil rights complaints on behalf of minority contractors should reach Wisconsin in about a month. “I’m going to raise hell,” said Alford, […]