Subject: Gayle Holliday

• Kansas City Strip

  June 14, 2001

• An Inside Job

  Dianne Cleaver's connections didn't get her a job. That would be wrong.

  December 4, 2003

• The Adams Family

  Clinton Adams has a cast of characters connected to the school board.

  November 8, 2001

• Taylor Made

  After Superintendent Benjamin Demps fell from the school board's favor, Bernard Taylor was eager to please.

  October 4, 2001

• Though it’s anything but disadvantaged, Mark One Electric Company gets minority-hiring contracts

  June 11, 2009

• Letters from the week
  of July 2

  July 2, 2009

• Mark One Electric keeps confounding government officials in charge of minority contracts

  August 13, 2009

• Councilwoman Jan Marcason likes minority-hiring quizzes, so here’s one for her

  October 1, 2009

• City responds to question about puzzling diversity arrangement

  ​This week's Martin column describes a $421,200 subcontract that a politically connected consultant, Gayle Holliday, received after the City of Kansas City, Missouri, reached an agreement with an Arizona company to install red-light cameras.Holliday, who is African-American, represents the lone "minority business enterprise" (MBE) that the camera company, American Traffic Solutions, says it intends to use in the course of executing its contract. Through July, Holliday had been paid a mere $8,5

  October 1, 2009