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My issue with this is how do you even qualify the subcontractor? How do you know what someone's sexual orientation is? I could literally be like "yeah I'm married to a woman, but I'm bisexual". How do they even determine I'm telling the truth? Do I need to make out with a dude in front of them or something? Same goes for trans, what stops a guy from changing his gender to female on his driver's license and then being like "I'm a transwoman lesbian married to another woman"...
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I thought the overall diverse business' requirement for the whole project was:
35% MBE 10% WBE 5% BEPD/VBE/SDBE/LGBTQ 7% Local ? EDIT: or is it 11% of the workers need to be LGBTQ? |
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There's also IDOT and city contracts associated with the library, to widen roads, upgrade intersections, and make changes in Jackson Park outside of the immediate Obama site. Those would follow the DBE procedures for those agencies. |
The absurdity that there’s a “Chamber of Commerce” in place to “verify” sexual orientation. What if the applicant has a husband but kissed a girl and she liked it? It’s professional discrimination. I’d digress, but this issue is not off topic, as it’s a core belief of this project’s construction team.
About 25 years ago, there was this brand new HVAC firm, owned by a Middle Eastern woman. We issued the company their first subcontract ever. They were good, capable people and had a professional crew lined up, who we knew could get the job done. Didn’t realize it at the time, but we were “M/WBE participating“! :sly: |
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Agree. LGBT business owners should be included in WBE or MBE in this case at least.
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Of course, like any set-aside program, it offers the possibility for favoritism and abuse. The question is whether the benefit to disadvantaged communities outweighs the potential for abuse. Certainly there are a lot of DBE firms out there doing good work hiring and training from minority communities. There are others that have a "disadvantaged" owner but otherwise don't do jack-squat to improve justice outcomes in the city. I've also worked with several subs who qualified as DBE or could qualify (several woman-owned, one lesbian woman-owned, many Latino-owned, etc) but were hired purely because they were price-competitive and did great work. The projects in question did not have any requirements to satisfy. |
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https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...k4y-story.html
The Seventh Circuit will release a written ruling at a later date hopefully soon So far its looking good for the Obama foundation |
I bet Trump tries to block this somehow....just seems like something he would do. Or is this already past federal review stage?
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No, the federal historic landscape review has dragged on and on.
If it drags on long enough, the Obama Foundation wouldn't be expected to invite Trump to the opening ceremony. Here's a rather oddly worded report on this week's hearing, that takes the plaintiff's position as its starting point. |
The article makes quite a few damn good points. It would make for much better optics, and make much more sense, if the library were to take up a few vacant, decrepit lots nearby or adjacent to the park; there are plenty of them.
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https://news.wttw.com/2020/05/27/are...center-lawsuit
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In any case, the center should just be built already. I still stand by the notion that groups like 'Protect the Parks' are nothing more than mostly high class, faux progressive NIMBYISTS who don't even live in the South Side and only care about making the parks postcard friendly, regardless of the fact that they are often underused. |
^ NIMBYS took out the George Lucas museum, they ain't gonna take this one either!
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Barrett has no reason to act like a toady for Trump, unless she thinks she's a contender for Ginsberg's seat on the Supreme Court AND she thinks Trump will win in the fall... but even then, she has an interest in appearing fair and impartial so she doesn't get trapped in the Senate confirmation process. I agree with her, though, that this case has questionable standing in Federal court. What relationship does the case have to Federal law? The public trust doctrine is a matter of state law and should properly be heard in a state court. The fact that Jackson Park is a National Register property, or the impacts on Federally funded highway, are kind of a stretch reasoning. However, both plaintiff and defendant want the case in Federal court, but the judges have to decide if that's really appropriate. |
It wasn't a ruling. And that Caplan comment is spin
the panel's questions basically centered on why the opponents were treating federal court like the zoning board |
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