Voices
November 12, 2009 -
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson, New America Media President Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority LeaderHarry Reid, key House and Senate Democrats and Republicans, and mostimportantly the major pharmaceuticals and private insurers know onething, and they've known it from the start of the health care debate:The Senate, not the House, will decide what, if any, health care reformplan is finally approved.
November 5, 2009 -
By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest I admit it -- the Dirt Diggers Digest is guilty of focusing on the badnews about corporate misdeeds. So in this post I will write aboutsomething positive: activist groups that are succeeding in changingcorporate behavior for the better. The occasion for this shift in emphasis is the recent announcementof the winners of the BENNY awards, which are given out by the Business Ethics Network.
November 4, 2009 -
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson,
October 21, 2009 -
The problem is that Durbin's bill and the House bill are not retroactive. The legislation doesn't require judges to take a second look at any of the sentences of those currently incarcerated for crack possession. This is not fair and it's not justice.
October 20, 2009 -
By Afton Branche, DMIBlog
October 6, 2009 -
By Rinku Sen, New America Media