The Milwaukee Common Council is not ready to officially repeal gender- and race-specific set-asides in its minority contracting program.

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It took Milwaukee’s Common Council no more than 15 minutes to discuss and unanimously approve a lawsuit settlement that reverses the city’s most recent minority contracting set-asides.

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Conflicting opinions about whether Milwaukee should have contract set asides for specific minorities has left the city’s policymakers at a standstill.

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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 awarded last month, including $822 million accepted by Wisconsin, did ...

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Sean Ryan sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com 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, president of the National Black Chamber of Commerce. Alford said ...

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Hoffman LLC Hoffman LLC employee Bill Aubrey earned his Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design accreditation. A senior project manager at Hoffman, Aubrey is responsible for project coordination, ranging from developing concepts and preparing architectural drawings to management of the ...

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Left: Michele Carter, manager of the Wisconsin Department of Transportation’s disadvantaged business enterprise program, speaks Wednesday at a session hosted by the National Association of Minority Contractors. Carter encouraged minority contractors to aggressively pursue stimulus contracts. Right: Joyce Lacey, owner ...

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