{"id":2971,"date":"2011-11-04T14:00:23","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T18:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/?p=2971"},"modified":"2011-11-04T16:46:37","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T20:46:37","slug":"this-weeks-essential-stateimpact-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2011\/11\/04\/this-weeks-essential-stateimpact-2\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week&#8217;s Essential StateImpact"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2972\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 275px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"After consulting our futuristic cyber minions, we've got a pretty good idea of which StateImpact posts you liked best this week\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2011\/11\/4706981136_85d28b0cbc1.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2972\" title=\"Surprise Bot\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2011\/11\/4706981136_85d28b0cbc1-300x327.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2011\/11\/4706981136_85d28b0cbc1-300x327.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2011\/11\/4706981136_85d28b0cbc1-220x240.jpg 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2011\/11\/4706981136_85d28b0cbc1.jpg 458w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Jen and Tony Bot \/ Flickr<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">After consulting our futuristic cyber minions, we&#39;ve got a pretty good idea of which StateImpact posts you liked best this week<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After checking this week&#8217;s stats, we&#8217;ve got some clear winners for which posts drew the most eyes&#8230;and comments!\u00a0 If life happened to you and you missed our five most popular posts, you can catch up by clicking on the titles listed below:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a title=\"Is New Hampshire Really As Anti-Tax As It\u2019s Cracked Up To Be?\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2011\/10\/31\/is-new-hampshire-really-as-anti-tax-as-its-cracked-up-to-be\/\" target=\"_blank\">Is New Hampshire Really As Anti-Tax As It&#8217;s Cracked Up To Be<\/a>?&#8211;The post that talks tax policy, quotes pollsters, and tells you what &#8220;conservative&#8221; Iowa and &#8220;liberal&#8221; Washington State have in common&#8230;and how New Hampshire&#8217;s different from both of them.\u00a0 It got a lot of you talking!<!--more--><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Cain\u2019s 9\u20139-9 Touches Third Rail Of New Hampshire Tax Policy\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2011\/10\/28\/cains-9-9-9-touches-third-rail-of-new-hampshire-tax-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cain&#8217;s 9-9-9 Touches Third Rail Of New Hampshire Tax Policy<\/a>&#8211;This is the long companion post to a shorter national piece we produced for Weekend Edition Sunday.\u00a0 It was another story that generated a lot of buzz among our StateImpact followers.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"New Hampshire Governor Asks President For Help With Storm Relief\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2011\/11\/01\/new-hampshire-governor-asks-president-for-help-with-storm-relief\/\" target=\"_blank\">New Hampshire Governor Asks President For Help With Storm Relief<\/a>&#8211;First it was Irene&#8230;then it was Snowtober.\u00a0 A number of you checked-in with StateImpact&#8217;s coverage of the state&#8217;s latest plea for FEMA aid.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Map: Where Lowe\u2019s Is Closing\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2011\/10\/18\/where-lowes-is-closing\/\" target=\"_blank\">Map:\u00a0 Where Lowe&#8217;s Is Closing<\/a>&#8211;We love maps and other graphics&#8211;and apparently you do, too!\u00a0 This post has some serious staying power.\u00a0 In case you haven&#8217;t seen it, this map lays out where the 20 stores are that Lowe&#8217;s is shutting down.\u00a0 And the Northeast is taking the biggest hit.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Laconia Sees Boom In Vacation Home Market\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2011\/11\/01\/over-past-decade-laconia-saw-spike-in-vacation-home-construction\/\" target=\"_blank\">Laconia Sees Boom In Vacation Home Market<\/a>&#8211;Since we wrapped-up our series looking at the effect of second homes on the state&#8217;s economy, we&#8217;ve been keeping an eye out for other coverage.\u00a0 And the <em>Laconia Daily Sun<\/em> delivered.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve got the breakdown of their reporting, along with a dash of our own analysis.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After checking this week&#8217;s stats, we&#8217;ve got some clear winners for which posts drew the most eyes&#8230;and comments!\u00a0 If life happened to you and you missed our five most popular posts, you can catch up by clicking on the titles listed below: Is New Hampshire Really As Anti-Tax As It&#8217;s Cracked Up To Be?&#8211;The post [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[196],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2971"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2980,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971\/revisions\/2980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}