Government Decides

• Government decides who meets definition of 'minority business': data offer look at continued struggle for economic parity.

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] What the common man calls a minority owned business and what the government means when its agencies and officials use the ter...

• San Diego Business Journal
• November 15, 2010

• Poff Building Renovation Draws Sharp Questions

What happens when the federal government decides to spend more than $50 million in stimulus funds to fix up an office building, doesn't do a cost-benefit analysis until after construction contracts are signed, violates procurement laws, and takes more than two years to begin work on the "shovel-ready" project? A government official gets grilled during a congressional hearing.

• Roanoke Times & World News
• April 15, 2011

• Government Decides Not To Appeal St. David's Verdict

The Justice Department has announced its intention not to appeal the March 4, 2004 jury verdict preserving the tax-exempt status of St. David's Heal...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• United States Law Articles in English

• Commentary: We're Better Off If the Market, Not Government, Decides

Can government really "stimulate" the economy? It's an important question given our current economic mess. Apparently, lots of politicians think so. Early this year, a Democrat-led Congress passed and President George W. Bush, a Republican, signed an "economic stimuli" package featuring tax rebate checks and other temporary, targeted measures.

• Long Island Business News
• October 31, 2008

• Government Decides Not to Retry Scrushy

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- The government dropped plans to retry Richard Scrushy on Wednesday, saying it would not appeal a judge's decision to dismiss perjury charges against the fired HealthSouth Corp. chief executive, acquitted of directing a $2.7 billion fraud. Immediately after Scrushy's trial last month, federal prosecutors said they would ask an appeals court to reinstate counts accusing Scrushy of lying to the Securities and Exchange Commission about an earnings overstatement. A judge threw out the three perjury counts during the case.

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• July 14, 2005

• Treasury Working to Prioritize What Bills to Pay, Just in Case

WASHINGTON - If the government can't pay all its bills come Wednesday, odds are it will pay bondholders. Social Security and Medicare recipients will be high on the must-pay list, too. Likely losers: federal workers in jobs deemed nonessential, private contractors and state and local governments. It seems politically certain that active-duty members of the military would be paid, but there are no guarantees as the government decides which of its $80 million monthly payments to make and which to set aside.

• Charleston Gazette
• August 01, 2011

• When the government decides that marriage is indifferent to the sex of the spouses, as it does in approving 'gay marriage,' it must also commit itself to the belief that the rearing of children is also indifferent to the sex of the parents.

When the government decides that marriage is indifferent to the sex of the spouses, as it does in approving "gay marriage," it must also commit itself...

• First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
• Nbr. 2011, January 2011

• Redevelopment in Virginia Beach Who Decides? Option 2: Let Government Guide Redevelopment

VIRGINIA'S MOST POPULOUS CITY ISN'T NEW ANYMORE. While with age comes character, with age also comes creeping decrepitude. If Virginia Beach is to continue to grow and improve, it will need to redevelop declining neighborhoods and abandoned commercial centers. An ambitious civic project, begun in 2004, has sought to gather wide public opinion in the hopes of framing a strategy for redevelopment. The "Public Voices on Redevelopment Leadership Team" - made up of civic leaders, interested folks and city staff - has identified three possibilities:

• The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA
• July 11, 2006

• Council Keeps Doors to Government Open ; Group Decides What Is Public Information

All Rich Bernstein wanted were the names and addresses of dog license holders in Wallington. His relatively simple request to the borough last year morphed into a legal showdown between privacy rights and the public's right to know.

• The Record, Bergen County, NJ
• January 26, 2006

• Board Delays Anthrax Vaccine Testing On Children for Now

WASHINGTON - Should the anthrax vaccine be tested in children? It will be a while longer before the government decides. An advisory board said Friday that ethical issues need to be resolved - but if that can be accomplished the vaccine can be tested in children to be sure it's safe and to learn the proper dose in case it's needed in a terrorist attack.

• Sunday Gazette-Mail
• October 31, 2011