{"id":3802,"date":"2011-12-02T16:10:02","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T21:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/?p=3802"},"modified":"2011-12-02T16:10:24","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T21:10:24","slug":"this-weeks-essential-stateimpact-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2011\/12\/02\/this-weeks-essential-stateimpact-5\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week’s Essential StateImpact"},"content":{"rendered":"
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StateImpact's weekly roundup of the stories that intrigued, impressed, entertained, amused, or otherwise caught your attention<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s that time of the week again!\u00a0 StateImpact’s tapping the collective wisdom of the crowd for our Friday afternoon roundup of our five most popular posts!\u00a0 As always, just click the title of the link to catch up on any water-cooler-worthy stories you might have missed.<\/p>\n

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  1. How Big Banks (Some With NH Branches) Benefitted From Secret Fed Loan Program<\/a>:\u00a0 Bloomberg published an amazing <\/em>piece detailing a secret Fed loan program for banks that makes TARP look small-time.\u00a0 And while New Hampshire isn’t known as a beachhead for big banks, the state does claim some outposts for Bank of America and TD Bank.\u00a0 So we summed-up the juciest Bloomberg info and gave you the goods on how much those banks got.\u00a0 And it was far and away the biggest piece we posted this week.<\/li>\n
  2. Leading Republicans Lose Positions For Opposing Right-To-Work<\/a>: TheLobbyNH.com broke this story about one Republican state representative resigning a commission chairmanship, and three assistant whips in danger of losing their positions because they broke ranks with the party and opposed a Right-to-Work veto override.\u00a0 (Incidentally, the next day, TheLobbyNH.com found out Majority Leader D.J. Bettencourt changed his mind about the assistant whips, and they kept their jobs.\u00a0 You can read our follow-up post here<\/a>.)<\/li>\n
  3. Six Surprising Takeaways From The 2012 NH Business Outlook Survey<\/a>: The Business and Industry Association commissions a survey toward the end of every year, taking the pulse of the state’s business community.\u00a0 While firms were (unsurprisingly) “cautiously optimistic” about the economic outlook for 2012, we were surprised about some of their concerns going into the new year.<\/li>\n
  4. Is New Hampshire Really As Anti-Tax As It’s Cracked Up To Be?<\/a>:\u00a0 Last month, StateImpact compared New Hampshire’s attitude toward taxes to two very different places: Iowa and Washington State.\u00a0 Of all our posts so far, this one really has legs.\u00a0 <\/em>Keep this up, and it could be our top post of the year!<\/li>\n
  5. Q&A: State\u2019s New Transportation Commissioner Battles Budget Cuts<\/a>:\u00a0 The Department of Transportation has seen big cuts since the last legislative session.\u00a0 What challenges does the agency face now?\u00a0 And what does that mean for the future of work on I-93?\u00a0 StateImpact got the answers from new DOT Commissioner Christopher Clement.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    It’s that time of the week again!\u00a0 StateImpact’s tapping the collective wisdom of the crowd for our Friday afternoon roundup of our five most popular posts!\u00a0 As always, just click the title of the link to catch up on any water-cooler-worthy stories you might have missed. How Big Banks (Some With NH Branches) Benefitted From […]<\/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\/3802"}],"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=3802"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3808,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3802\/revisions\/3808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}