Archive: December 30, 2007 - January 05, 2008

Women, Opportunities and Anger

The Small Business Administration is in the midst of another struggle, this time with women entrepreneurs. As the LA Times reports, women business owners are peeved about the agency's efforts to implement a seven-year-old congressional mandate to give them a larger portion of federal work. According to the story,...

By Robert O'Harrow | January 4, 2008; 6:00 AM ET | Comments (3)

You Can Help

And now this heartwarmer from The Weekly Standard: "PORKBUSTING BLOGGERS AND muckraking journalists received an early Christmas present on December 13, when the White House Office of Management and Budget launched USAspending.gov, an Internet search engine that makes information about federal contracts, grants, earmarks, and loans exceeding $25,000 just a...

By Robert O'Harrow | January 3, 2008; 7:00 AM ET | Comments (3)

 

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