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Essential StateImpact: Top Five Posts Of The Week

These are the five most clicked, commented and shared stories of the week.  In case you missed one, take a look: A Seasonal Ski Hill Is One Idaho County’s Top Employer Tax Cut For Idaho’s Top Earners Passes House A Plan In The Works To Reverse Key Medicaid Cuts Proposed Ag Subsidy Cuts Won’t Touch […]

Essential StateImpact: Top Five Posts Of The Week

Each week we take a look back at the five stories getting the most clicks, comments and shares.  In case you missed anything, our readers think these are the five essential stories from the week. “60 Minutes” Highlights Unique Program To Put People Back To Work A Life Unfolds As Idaho Sorts Out Its Budget Priorities […]

Essential StateImpact: Top Five Stories Of The Week

These are the five stories generating the most clicks, comments and shares this week.  In case you missed one, we put them all in this tidy list: The Idaho Caucus Cheat Sheet: Where the Candidates Stand on Economic Policy Car Sales Are Big Business in One Rural Idaho County Santorum, Romney Campaign for Idaho’s 32 […]

Essential StateImpact: Top Five Stories of the Week

Every week we look back at the five stories getting the most attention at StateImpact Idaho. These stories got the most clicks, comments and shares.  In case you missed something, here are the essentials: Supervalu Laying Off 130 Corporate Employees in Boise Fact Check: Is Boise Really a ‘Turnaround Town’? Introducing StateImpact Idaho’s New Unemployment App […]

Essential StateImpact: Top Five Posts of the Week

Each week we look back at the five stories getting the most clicks, comments and shares. Jobless in Idaho: Leaving Home for the Oilfields: Allen Brown was laid-off from the Clearwater Paper sawmill back in October.  Now, he’s preparing to leave his family behind to work as an electronic tech in the booming oilfields.  Brown’s […]

Essential StateImpact: Top Five Stories of the Week

Here’s a look at the five stories getting the most clicks, comments and shares at StateImpact Idaho this week.  In case you missed anything, we bundled them in one tidy package. Northwest States Coping with Government Employee Layoffs: Across the Northwest, government agencies and schools have laid off thousands of workers. Just like corporate downsizing, […]

Essential StateImpact: Top Five Stories of the Week

A lot of news came out of the Idaho Capitol this week.  In case you missed anything, we bundled our five most viewed stories in one nifty package. Idaho’s Former Chief Economist Critical of Gov’s Budget Proposal: For 26 years Mike Ferguson was Idaho’s chief economist.  He helped craft a lot of state budgets before […]

Essential StateImpact: Year in Review

StateImpact Idaho launched in September 2011.  While we’ve only been live for the last four months, we thought we’d look back at the five most-read stories during StateImpact Idaho’s first year. In Rural Idaho, the Recession Changes One Town’s Fate: Before the recession, rural Fairfield, Idaho was planning for growth.  Now, it’s dealing with a […]

Essential StateImpact: Top Five Stories of the Week

It was a busy week at StateImpact Idaho, and we saw a big boost in our site traffic.  Thank you! Here’s a look at the five stories getting the most attention: Governor Otter: The State Can’t Reject a Federal Unemployment Benefit Extension: Extended benefits for jobless Idahoans are tangled in a Congressional debate.  It’s unclear […]

Essential StateImpact: Top Five Stories of the Week

Here’s a look back at our most read, commented and shared stories of the week: Jobless in Idaho: Soldiers Struggle to Translate War Experience into Work: Here’s a line most entry-level job seekers don’t have on their resume: “Operated a high-caliber machine gun, in Baghdad, Iraq.”  Many of the 2,700 National Guard soldiers from the […]

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