What If Environmentalists Own Oil and Gas Lands? Introduction by John Baden In the 1980s I was one of three academic members of the National Petroleum Council.  President Harry S. Truman created this federal advisory committee in 1946 to advise the executive branch on oil and gas topics. The other two academics from universities were […]

Introduction by John Baden Bob Flaherty, MD, contributed last week’s FREE Insights, “Pure Medicine”. This was the first half of his Wall Street Journal column on delivering medical care to Bozeman’s homeless. Ramona and I welcome you to join us in supporting Bozeman’s Warming Center through the non-governmental Human Resource Development Council, a 501 C-3 […]

Introduction by John Baden Robert Flaherty, MD is a family medicine doc who works at Montana State University and teaches in its WWAMI medical school program. He is also an extremely active and responsible member of our community.  For example, Dr. Bob is the consulting physician for our Warriors and Quiet Waters foundation for wounded warriors.  […]

  Introduction by John Baden   Prof. Todd Zywicki, a member of FREE’s Board of Trustees, is an economist and law professor at George Mason University.  He is a graduate of Dartmouth, Clemson, and U VA and editor of the Supreme Court Economic Review.  Todd is a frequent contributor to the Wall Street Journal and a prolific […]

Comments by John Baden Bob Higgs (http://www.independent.org/aboutus/person_detail.asp?id=489)is one of America’s most respected and productive economic historians.  Decades ago I brought Bob to MSU to give a talk on the economics of sustainable salmon fishing and the causes of overfishing.  And no, the cause is not greed but rather poorly designed institutions and political influence.  Greed is […]