{"id":2930,"date":"2011-12-16T16:02:12","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T23:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=2930"},"modified":"2011-12-16T16:02:12","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T23:02:12","slug":"essential-stateimpact-top-five-stories-of-the-week-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2011\/12\/16\/essential-stateimpact-top-five-stories-of-the-week-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Essential StateImpact: Top Five Stories of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2937\"  class=\"wp-caption module image center\" style=\"max-width: 500px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"In case you were outside playing in the snow and missed a story, we put our most-read stories of the week all in one place.  Enjoy!\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2011\/12\/SnowFaceRED_WEB1.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2937\" title=\"SnowFaceRED_WEB\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2011\/12\/SnowFaceRED_WEB1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"704\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2011\/12\/SnowFaceRED_WEB1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2011\/12\/SnowFaceRED_WEB1-300x422.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2011\/12\/SnowFaceRED_WEB1-220x309.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Emilie Ritter Saunders \/ StateImpact Idaho<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">In case you were outside playing in the snow and missed a story, we put our most-read stories of the week all in one place. Enjoy!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a look back at our most read, commented and shared stories of the week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2011\/12\/13\/jobless-in-idaho-soldiers-struggle-to-translate-war-experience-into-work\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jobless in Idaho: Soldiers Struggle to Translate War Experience into Work<\/a>: Here\u2019s a line most entry-level job seekers don\u2019t have on their resume: \u201cOperated a high-caliber machine gun, in Baghdad, Iraq.\u201d\u00a0 Many of the 2,700 National Guard soldiers from the Northwest who just returned from Iraq aren\u2019t old enough to have much of a pre-deployment work history.\u00a0 Now, many soldiers struggle to translate their war experience into a civilian career.\u00a0\u00a0 <!--more--><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2011\/12\/13\/governor-otter-says-arevas-idaho-nuke-facility-is-moving-forward\/\" target=\"_blank\">Governor Otter Says Areva&#8217;s Idaho Nuke Facility is Moving Forward<\/a>:\u00a0 Earlier this week the French energy company Areva announced worldwide cutbacks, including suspending work on Idaho&#8217;s Eagle Rock facility.\u00a0 The governor says he&#8217;s been assured that&#8217;s not the case.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2011\/12\/13\/power-brokers-meet-five-of-idahos-most-influential-legislators\/\" target=\"_blank\">Power Brokers: Meet Five of Idaho&#8217;s Most Influential Legislators<\/a>:\u00a0 These are the five legislators we think have the most pull when it comes to Idaho&#8217;s budget and economic policies.\u00a0 The session kicks off Jan. 9th, and these will be some of the people to watch.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2011\/12\/14\/video-governor-otter-responds-to-areva-announcement\/\" target=\"_blank\">Video: Governor Otter Responds to Areva Announcement<\/a>: Earlier this week the French energy company Areva announced worldwide cutbacks, including work happening in Idaho.\u00a0 Governor Otter says despite those announcements, work is moving forward.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2011\/12\/15\/jobless-in-idaho-laid-off-mill-worker-uncertain-of-his-future\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jobless in Idaho: Laid Off Mill Worker Uncertain of his Future<\/a>: Allen Brown is a single dad and recently got laid off from his job at the former Clearwater Paper mill in Lewiston.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019ve got my education and hoped I could ride that out until I retired,\u201d says Brown.\u00a0 \u201cBut now I\u2019m trying to grab up anything else, and trying to make myself look better than the next guy that\u2019s applying for the same job, or the next 100 guys that I\u2019m up against.\u00a0 It\u2019s tough.\u00a0 It\u2019s really tough right\u00a0now.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;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\u2019s a line most entry-level job seekers don\u2019t have on their resume: \u201cOperated a high-caliber machine gun, in Baghdad, Iraq.\u201d\u00a0 Many of the 2,700 National Guard soldiers from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":2937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[111],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2963,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930\/revisions\/2963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}