{"id":3509,"date":"2012-01-06T14:35:10","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T21:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=3509"},"modified":"2012-01-11T12:21:11","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T19:21:11","slug":"essential-stateimpact-top-five-posts-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/01\/06\/essential-stateimpact-top-five-posts-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Essential StateImpact: Top Five Posts of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each week we compile our stories that got the most views, comments and shares.\u00a0 So, in case you missed anything, take a closer look.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div id=\"attachment_3510\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/01\/Eye_Mascht_T_flickr-e1325881109791.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3510\" title=\"Eye_Mascht_T_flickr\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/01\/Eye_Mascht_T_flickr-e1325881109791-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/01\/Eye_Mascht_T_flickr-e1325881109791-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/01\/Eye_Mascht_T_flickr-e1325881109791-620x388.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/01\/Eye_Mascht_T_flickr-e1325881109791.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Mascht_T \/ Flickr<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"> <\/p><\/div>\n<p><a title=\"Bogus Basin Ski Area Cuts Pay, Hours and\u00a0Jobs\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/01\/04\/bogus-basin-ski-area-cuts-pay-hours-and-jobs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bogus Basin Ski Area Cuts Pay, Hours and Jobs<\/a>: The lack of snow is hurting Boise\u2019s local ski hill.\u00a0 The <em>Idaho Business Review<\/em> reports <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bogusbasin.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bogus Basin Mountain Recreation Area<\/a> cut all year-round workers\u2019 pay by 10 percent as it heads for the latest opening in the resort\u2019s history.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Rep. Maxine Bell: We\u2019re Not in a Position to Lower Taxes at This\u00a0Point\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/01\/03\/rep-maxine-bell-were-not-in-a-position-to-lower-taxes-at-this-point\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rep. Maxine Bell: We&#8217;re Not in a Position to Lower Taxes at This Point<\/a>: Rep. Bell (R-Jerome) is co-chairman of the <a title=\"Your Guide to JFAC (Joint Finance Appropriations Committee)\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/topic\/jfac\/\">Joint Finance Appropriations Committee<\/a>, the committee that crafts the annual state budget.\u00a0 We spoke with Bell in advance of the session and this is our Q &amp; A with her. <!--more--><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Liveblog: Legislative Preview\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/01\/05\/liveblog-legislative-preview\/\" target=\"_blank\">Liveblog: Legislative Preview<\/a>: <em>The Associated Press<\/em> hosted an event this week where state media could ask leading lawmakers and the governor about their agenda&#8217;s for the session which starts Monday.\u00a0 We were there and <a title=\"Liveblog: Legislative Preview\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/01\/05\/liveblog-legislative-preview\/\" target=\"_blank\">liveblogged<\/a> the event.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Democrats, Republicans Working on Proposals to Boost Idaho Job Growth\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/01\/02\/democrats-republicans-working-on-proposals-to-boost-idaho-job-growth\/\" target=\"_blank\">Democrats, Republicans Working on Proposals to Boost Idaho Job Growth<\/a>: Democrats and Republicans agree the state is in need of more jobs, their ideas for creating those jobs differ.\u00a0 We spoke with leading lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to see how they think jobs can be created.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Tobacco, Education Lobbyists Top Spenders During 2011 Session\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/01\/04\/tobacco-education-lobbyists-top-spenders-during-2011-session\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tobacco, Education Lobbyists Top Spenders During 2011 Session<\/a>: We have a list of the 30 top-spending lobbyists from the 2011 session.\u00a0 Its no surprise big tobacco and education groups spent the most.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll be tracking results to see how much that changes during the 2012 session.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each week we compile our stories that got the most views, comments and shares.\u00a0 So, in case you missed anything, take a closer look. Bogus Basin Ski Area Cuts Pay, Hours and Jobs: The lack of snow is hurting Boise\u2019s local ski hill.\u00a0 The Idaho Business Review reports Bogus Basin Mountain Recreation Area cut all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":3510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[235],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509"}],"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=3509"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3514,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509\/revisions\/3514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}