By ROBYN E. BLUMNER
ST. PETERSBURG TIMES, October 6, 2002
As a young person in Glen Cove, N.Y., I would dutifully deposit money earned babysitting into a passbook savings account at the local bank. Year after year, the same women would be behind the teller’s counter registering my deposits. But the male
Read More → Posted in NewsBy Stuart Taylor
National Journal, September 23, 2002
Dennis Worth had been working happily and winning high performance evaluations for 16 years in the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s St. Louis office when things started going sour. In 1994, he was turned down for two promotions for which an independent merit-staffing
Read More → Posted in NewsBy TERRY EASTLAND
THE WASHINGTON TIMES, August 25, 2002
During his presidency, Bill Clinton vowed to mend affirmative action. The latest evidence he failed to do so comes in the form of a lawsuit filed earlier this month against the federal government. Now it’s up to the Bush administration to undertake the
Read More → Posted in NewsBy ROGER CLEGG
Washington Times, August 22, 2002
On Aug. 8, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) were sued by plaintiffs represented by the Center for Individual Rights. The lawsuit claims that the agencies violated the civil rights laws that prohibit employment discrimination
Read More → Posted in NewsBy STANLEY KURTZ
NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE, August 9, 2002
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is charged with protecting the American public from employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. To say that the EEOC had failed in this task would be an understatement. The plain
Read More → Posted in NewsBy BILL BRAY
The Express-Times, January 17, 2002
WASHINGTON TWP. – The senior who was suspended for. wearing a “redneck” T-shirt will appeal his suspension to the school board.
Tom Sypniewski said Friday that Vice Principal Ronald Griffith gave him a chance to remove the shirt or be punished.
“I thought about it,” Sypniewski
Read More → Posted in NewsBy Elissa Gootman
New York Times, September 30, 2001
A year after two Mexican day laborers were violently attacked by two men posing as employers, lawyers for the victims have filed a class-action civil rights lawsuit on their behalf.
The suit, filed in United States District Court in Brooklyn on Sept. 17, names
Read More → Posted in NewsCouncil member’s conduct in rejection of apartment project in northwestern Fresno is studied.
By Bill McEwen
The Fresno Bee, September 17, 2001
The conduct of City Council Member Chris Mathys in the derailment of a low-income apartment complex in northwest Fresno and a zoning deal he allegedly cut with a prominent developer are
Read More → Posted in NewsBy Will Hill and Ellen Opper-Weiner
Washington Post, September 9, 2001
Last month leaders of Girls and Boys Town marched to the Lincoln Memorial to announce a lawsuit against critics of its plan to build group homes on Pennsylvania Avenue SE [Metro, Aug. 15].
The Nebraska charity is suing the District, various local
Read More → Posted in NewsA Final Reckoning?
By Carl Cohen
Commentary Magazine, September 8, 2001
PREFERENCE BY race in university admissions is a widespread practice in the United States. Although the Supreme Court has condemned racial preferences in other contexts, it has addressed university admissions only once, in the 1978 case of Regents of the University of
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