Eastern Idaho prospers amid recession- Idaho Statesman

Idaho Falls has switched places with the Treasure Valley as Idaho's most diversified, stable economy by Rocky Barker, Idaho Statesman.
 
"You don't have to work at The Site to make a living, and that wasn't true 20 years ago," said Roger Plothow, publisher of the Post Register newspaper and president of Grow Idaho, the grass-roots economic development group in Bonneville County.
 
That stability has business leaders and workers optimistic about 2010 and beyond. French energy giant Areva plans to build a $2 billion uranium-enrichment plant nearby. That is scheduled to open 2014.
 
"We are a little pocket of happiness in a state of gloom," said Jerry Scheid, a retired farmer and rancher.
 
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