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Regional Business and Economics Newspaper January 2006

Focus: Rural Pharmacies
	The other pharm crisis The pharmacy industry faces a multitude of challenges, and rural areas confront the possibility of losing pharmacy services. Sidebar: Filling a prescription for more pharmacies Cash, check or third party? Prescription benefit plans are squeezing retail pharmacies.
Special delivery? Innovations are changing how, where and when people receive pharmacy services. Not everyone is thrilled. [Web only]

Ninth District Features

Molding a new industry
Recent oil pressures have threatened the recovery of the
district's plastics industry, but firms can cope by adapting.

Color them plain but successful
Growing Hutterite colonies find successful—and sizable—niches
in district economy.

District Voices

How do you expect your business/community to be affected by recent airline bankruptcies?

Opinion

Letters to the Editor

Ninth District Economic Forecast

District economic expansion to continue in 2006

District business leaders expect modest overall growth in 2006

Manufacturing: On the up and up

Despite large harvest, ag lenders worry

District Data

State Roundups

Michigan        Minnesota       Montana
North Dakota  South Dakota  Wisconsin

Special Maps & Charts

U.S. Map: Housing Units Authorized, Percent Change October 2005 Year-to-Date Compared With a Year Earlier