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Paving The Way For Diversity On (In?) The Road...

Reader Alex Bensky sends word of this article urging the state of Michigan to do more to ensure that more ?Disadvantaged Business Enterprises? (aka DBEs, aka firms owned or apparently owned by minorities) get state contracts for highway construction.

We should all applaud this effort, as does Alex, who writes:

I can tell you, John, I?m with them on this one. My car runs better, my tires roll faster, and the road seems wider when I know I?m driving over pavement constructed by a representative cross-section of Michigan?s population.

Alex neglected to mention, however, the glow he must also feel at knowing that, as a Michigan taxpayer, his roads are more expensive than they would be if the state limited its concern to the outmoded desire to get the very best work for the least cost.

Full post as published by Discriminations on April 18, 2008 (boomark / email).