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Innovations Awards Winner - West Virginia - 2003 - Multi-State Pharmacy Benefit Management Services Program This state partnership aggregates drug purchasing powers for a single pharmacy benefit manager to lower the unit costs for services provided, allowing states in the partnership group to enter into a relationship to increase their negotiating power when seeking prescription drug services. Finalist - South Dakota and Nebraska - 2003 - Purple Loosestrife Management Project A joint initiative between the two states and South Dakota’s State Prison, this program helps stop the invasive plant purple loosestrife. Prison inmates raise approximately 250,000 Galerucella beetles each year and release them into the Missouri River to help control the purple loosestrife population, which damages wetland ecosystems and habitat.
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THE COUNCIL OF STATE GOVERNMENTS 
Learn from CSG Regional Meetings
Learn more from meetings of the Southern Legislative Conference of The Council of State Governments, CSG-Midwest and CSG-WEST at Capitol Comments.
Health Reform Strategies in the Midwest
State strategies to contain health care costs and reform health systems are the focus of a new Midwestern Legislative Conference report, released last week in conjunction with the nonpartisan association's four-day meeting in Rapid City, S.D.
State Funding for Homeland Security Down
A Southern Legislative Conference Special Series Report explores ways in which states are dealing with decreased funding for state homeland security programs.
affecting state governments.
