Ramona and I just returned from my successful reconstructive surgery in Baltimore. We came back through Minneapolis, me in a leg cast rolling through the airport in a wheelchair. I’ve known this procedure was coming for six years. With Obama’s election, I’ve anticipated increased difficulty in acquiring excellent medical care. Hence, I’ve been more sensitive […]

Governor Schweitzer is proposing Montanans be allowed to re-import U.S. prescription drugs from Canada. He believes this could save consumers up to 40 percent on their medical prescriptions, totaling some $280 million in annual savings. On average, prices for U.S. manufactured drugs are much lower abroad than for the same drugs sold at home. This […]

This is the fourth summer FREE has offered conferences on environmental stewardship for religious leaders. This year’s are in June and September. The June slots are filled and we have just announced the September 13-17 offering, “Our Environment: Economics, Ecology, and Ethics.” The religious leaders program is popular and the conference location wonderful, Elkhorn Ranch […]

The disaster earlier this month in a West Virginia coal mine killing at least 29 miners (and the wreck of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico) reminds us of the extreme hazards of that occupation; the human cost of supplying fifty percent of the nation’s electricity at an affordable price is […]