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Cleveland Rocks! Cement and Gravel

By Alison Jimenez

Here's a really thorough piece on the beginnings and ultimate distortion of Cleveland's minority contracting program by Lisa Rab of Scene News, an alternative newspaper in Cleveland.  This story demonstrates how a program can be perverted when there is no accountability or concern for compliance.  The Rab notes how on several occasions city employees raised their concern about front companies but the city leaders did nothing to investigate or prosecute which allowed a culture of corruption to flourish.  Here's one quote to get the feel for the story: Though Withers was in charge of equal opportunity, it was clear he had no interest in enforcing it. And that was the beauty of the system. In his early years, (Cleveland Mayor) White never hired enough people to oversee minority contracts...continue to full post

Full post as published by Tanjeble on January 16, 2008 (boomark / email).