Bosnian entrepreneur fights for minority status

The Pennsylvania Minority Business Development Authority makes loans to business owners who are disadvantaged minorities.

But who is a disadvantaged minority?

That's the question at the heart of a dispute between the authority and a Bosnian refugee-turned-entrepreneur.

David Becirovic fled the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, in the former Yugoslavia, in 1992. After spending six years in limbo in Germany, Becirovic and his family arrived in the U.S. in 1998.

Becirovic is employed by the state, but he is working on a big business idea: He wants to open a butter-packaging facility, filling what he says is an open niche in the local agriculture industry.

His …