Since posting the below facts in regards to the plight of Black-male owned business attempting to do business in leadership disciplines with the Houston Metropolitan (METRO) Transit Authority, we have received many direct responses from various constituents and constituency representatives of women-owned, veteran owned, and majority owned businesses. Some outside conversators offering discrete, but subtle [...]
Entries from May 2009
May 22, 2009
Houston METRO, …show us what you got
UPDATE: on CALL TO ACTION: Houston METROPOLITAN TRANSIT AUTHORITY by the Numbers
May 22, 2009
On yesterday, I summarily spoke before the Houston METRO board of directors in regards to the undeniable evidence of its anemic procurement activity with local, Black-male owned businesses. The goal was to find out if, in light of this evidence, President Frank [...]
May 15, 2009
CALL TO ACTION: Houston METROPOLITAN TRANSIT AUTHORITY by the Numbers
“[Houston] METRO has a proud record of issuing PROFESSIONAL SERVICES Prime-Contracts to Black-Male owned businesses.” – Frank Wilson, President of the Houston Metropolitan Transit Authority
BACK-STORY: As many of you are aware, I went before the Board of Directors of the Houston Metropolitan (METRO) Transit Authority to voice my concerns, and those shared by others in [...]
May 14, 2009
SHOW US THE MONEY! Committee Approves Jobs Creating Small Business Assistance Bill
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) —Lawmakers with the House Committee on Small Business today approved bipartisan legislation modernizing key job-creating entrepreneurial development programs within the Small Business Administration (SBA). Members of the Committee said the bill, H.R. 2352, the “Job Creation through Entrepreneurship Act of 2009”, represents a major effort to give established small businesses and entrepreneurial start-ups [...]
May 11, 2009
Uncle Sam Shake-down: Got Milk?
David Woroner, of Survival Consultants International,LLC. in the West Palm Beach, Florida Area posted the following question to the 8-PAC Small Business Discussion Group:
“Can someone explain to me, why, if I have spent a lot of money, time effort, energy and patenting a “specific” technology, that every time I approach one branch or another, they [...]
May 9, 2009
Economist: ‘Free-fall is over’
Author, Greg Barr
Although the country’s gross domestic product will continue to shrink in the second half of the year, a modest rebound is expected in 2010, according to an economic report.
Nigel Gault, chief U.S. economist for IHS Global Insight, said in a report this week that “after back-to-back declines in real GDP of more than [...]
May 4, 2009
8-PAC Congressional Agenda Item No. 3
Agenda Item No. 3
8-PAC implores the President of the United States and Congress to amend Public Law 106-50, “the Veteran Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development Act”, to INCREASE the annual percentage of prime contracts for serviced disabled veteran-owned small business to not less than 10%.
May 4, 2009
8-PAC Congressional Agenda Item No. 2
Agenda Item No. 2
8-PAC implores the President of the United States and Congress to amend Public Law 103-355, Section 7106, “the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act”, to INCREASE the annual percentage of prime contracts for women-owned business to not less than 15%.
May 4, 2009
8-PAC Congressional Agenda Item No. 1
Agenda Item No. 1
8-PAC implores the President of the United States and Congress to amend Public Law 100-656, Section 502, “the Business Opportunity Development Reform Act of 1988″, (codified as 15 U.S.C. Section 644(g)(1)) to change the language of the law from “goal” to “maximum practical utilization” and INCREASE the annual percentage of prime contracts [...]
May 1, 2009
Weekend Edition: Seven Ways to Stimulate the Economy by Updating the Internal Revenue Code
The U.S. tax code is more than 54,000 pages long, much of it dates back 40 years, and it has become nearly impossible for the average person to understand. A broad array of experts agree that comprehensive reform is needed, but a top-to-bottom restructuring of the Code would be arduous and time consuming.
The House Committee [...]
