Are we healthy enough?

A shocking recent Michigan State University report showed that only 3 percent of Americans have a healthy lifestyle. While I have only anecdotal evidence, the percentage may be even lower among Latter-day Saints. We’ve got to do better.

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On Correlation

Local control is a good thing. When every policy and practice is dictated by a distant, centralized authority, a local organization can lose its flavor. And the flavor that is not lost will make that small group of people feel alien when word comes in from HQ on how they are to behave. In essence a one-size-fits-all approach to governing a vast, diverse group of people will invariably mute the differences among the individual units that ought to be thriving and making the overall organization stronger.

And that is why I support federalism. Did you think I was talking about something else?

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