Regional Business and Economics Newspaper
May 2007
Dialing for dollars
Rural telephone companies in the district collect millions of dollars annually in universal service subsidies. Has the time come to let them fend for themselves?
Annual Reports
fedgazetteUniversal Service
- Fixing universal service
Proposed measures would curb the costs of subsidizing rural phone service. - Broadband: Not quite universal
Given the state of rural broadband, extending universal service to high-speed Internet access may be premature.
Ninth District Features
- Pipelines to feed the beast
This nation's rapacious appetite for oil products and Canada's vast supply spur district pipeline projects. - Bank exposure to ethanol
Is ethanol expansion putting investing banks at risk? - O Canada
For exporters to the district's northern neighbor, a weakening U.S. dollar is good for business. - Foreign Trade Zones
A new hammer in the economic development toolbox, but mostly a pillow in the district.
District Voices
Opinion
- Letter to the Editor
Letter to the Editor regarding fedgazette on Urban Sprawl.
District Data
- District exports expand in 2006
Manufactured exports from five district states grew almost 13 percent from 2005 to 2006, much faster than the annual average rate of growth from 1997 to 2006 (7 percent), but slower than the increase from 2004 to 2005 (18 percent). - Minnesota Manufactured Exports
- Montana Manufactured Exports
- North Dakota Manufactured Exports
- South Dakota Manufactured Exports
- Wisconsin Manufactured Exports
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