Earlier this week, Mike posted an intriguing report of contracting fraud in the Seattle School System. The  Seattle School District is embroiled in a damaging contracting scandal involving allegations of fraud in the management and award of contracts surrounding its program designed to promote the use of minority and women owned businesses. Mike Purdy’ s  Public Contracting Blog is one of the most complete public construction blogs on the web. Before going it alone at Michael E. He has agreed to serve as a guest here on Builders Counsel , and to repost this story. MORE >>

As this is the War on Women I have wondered who the perpetrators are. have seen high profile dustups between highly successful women debating the nonsense of what defines "having it all." Then we had the war of the words between two very different but still intelligent women selling us not on why they would make great First Ladies but why their husbands would be the best at their jobs, relegating themselves to the secondary position as supportive first mate. As I have found out that many of the most condemnation I faced has come from women. Shock no. And why? MORE >>

There is another wonderful American Unicorn myth that has women with College degrees doing better than their counterparts who fail to earn degrees, both male and female. As this is supposedly the war on women and women are the deciding factor in the election, we have many kinds of women - the Soccer Mom, the Waitress Mom and the Wal-Mart mom, apparently they are all distinctly different and not at all overlapping in the least. recent study found that women are well not better off Wal Mart Mom worker or the women who shops there. Well not so. do work. MORE >>

We lamented that there are few local branches of once powerful national voices for women, such as NOW. That the voices of women are not different than the voices of the LGBT community, the Immigrant community and the faces of Color. But then this is a Nation that let the Domestic Violence Act Against Women lapse. This was really intended as a first step,” said Vicki Shabo , director of work and family programs at the National Partnership for Women and Families , referring to the law, which the group helped write. She and her group want to do the same in Portland. MORE >>

Apparently Women are increasingly buying more guns. I am on a roll today) I have no problems with Women wanting to shoot guns, skeet, target or hunt, but the notion that it will protect you is along with the other absurd canard "good guys with guns stop bad guys with guns". You’ve got some adrenaline running through you right now,” said Esther Beris, the coordinator of the northeastern Ohio chapter of A Girl and a Gun Women’s Shooting League. But at firing ranges across the country, a growing number of women are learning to use firearms and honing their skills. MORE >>