(ThyBlackMan.com) When I served as Treasurer of Ohio, helping to keep the state books balanced, the question of whether states should ever hire outside lawyers came up often and comparatively little ...

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COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster is halting state agencies from issuing any new contracts that factor in considerations for minority businesses, a practice that he says is ...

This article is published in partnership with the Center for Media and Democracy. On an August 7 earnings call, Damon Hininger, the CEO of CoreCivic, announced that the country’s largest private ...

STATEWIDE — Attorney General Todd Rokita has revised state contracts to remove certain Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) practices. Starting July 1st, all state contractors must now certify that ...

The state program intended to give additional exposure to businesses owned by women, minorities and disabled veterans seeking state contracts was frozen by the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts’ ...

Gov. Wes Moore‘s administration reached contract agreements with six of seven unions representing state employees by its Dec. 31 deadline. One was conspicuously missing: the largest state worker guild ...

At any given meeting, the New Hampshire Executive Council can face 100 separate state contracts to approve or deny. And those contracts can be accompanied by 10 or 20 pages of materials. It’s a ...