Betsey Piette

Glaxo $3 billion fine – Just the cost of doing business

It is being touted as the largest financial penalty of its kind in the U.S. against a pharmaceutical corporation. In…

July 20, 2012

Pennsylvania fracking moratorium:
Only for the 1%

Philadelphia — With the stroke of a pen, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett exempted the state’s wealthiest counties from the direct…

July 18, 2012

Protesters demand ‘Free Mumia’

Despite the record heat, around 100 people gathered at Fifth and Market streets next to Philadelphia’s Liberty Bell for a…

July 18, 2012