The Department of Transportation’s (“DOT”) Disadvantage Business Enterprise (“DBE”) program is not as well-known as the Small Business Administration’s (“SBA”) 8(a) and other small business programs, ...

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg speaks during an April 2022 event. Buttigieg's Dept. of Transportation has proposed the first rulemaking update to its DBE regulations since 2014. The U ...

Small business owners in St. Landry Parish and surrounding areas will have an opportunity to gain critical insights on Disadvantaged Business Enterprise certification at the upcoming St. Landry Parish ...

DBE entities are for-profit, small businesses, that (1) are majority-owned and controlled by individuals that are deemed socially and economically disadvantaged; (2) are existing businesses that meet ...

FOX 8 received this from the New Orleans Mayor's Office Thursday evening: Today, Mayor Mitch Landrieu was joined by City Council members and business leaders as he signed into law an ordinance that ...

October 3, 2025, will be etched in the memory of many small business owners, as a regulation quietly but hugely shifted beneath our feet. I say "quietly," because for many, this change landed like a ...