Mary Alice Ryan is president and CEO of St. Andrew's Resources for Seniors, a multi-faceted non-profit senior housing and services organization in St. Louis, Missouri. She wrote a great article on transforming long-term care financing that you can read here.

Thanks to Barbara La Valleur, who directs a local block nurse program in St. Paul: . She wrote this letter to the editor in today's Minneapolis Star Tribune about how her organization's work is keeping people at home longer, at

A group of PacifiCorp's California customers has requested that the California Public Utilities Commission review the company's spending on Klamath River Dams. They say the company has already spent too much to relicense dams that pose health risks to humans,