{"id":7273,"date":"2012-03-30T16:31:18","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T20:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/?p=7273"},"modified":"2012-03-30T16:31:18","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T20:31:18","slug":"this-weeks-essential-stateimpact-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2012\/03\/30\/this-weeks-essential-stateimpact-17\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week&#8217;s Essential StateImpact"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7274\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 620px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Here's your weekly roundup of the five stories that you liked best, pound for pound\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2012\/03\/2769406107_8230c67214_z.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7274\" title=\"Day 192: A Pound of Macro\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2012\/03\/2769406107_8230c67214_z-620x414.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2012\/03\/2769406107_8230c67214_z-620x414.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2012\/03\/2769406107_8230c67214_z-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2012\/03\/2769406107_8230c67214_z.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Steve Moraco \/ Flickr<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Here&#39;s your weekly roundup of the five stories that you liked best, pound for pound<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Happy Friday!\u00a0 (Or should we say, &#8220;Happy Mega Millions Drawing Day?&#8221;)\u00a0 At any rate, as you count down the hours to the end of the workday and the start of the weekend, we&#8217;re happy to present you with our weekly round up of economy-flavored brain food:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a title=\"Why The Mega Millions Jackpot Is Extra-Important For New Hampshire\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2012\/03\/30\/why-the-mega-millions-jackpot-is-extra-important-for-new-hampshire\/\" target=\"_blank\">Why The Mega Millions Jackpot Is Extra-Important For New Hampshire<\/a>:\u00a0 The repost of our popular &#8220;Losing The Lotto&#8221; series offers some context for this week&#8217;s Mega Millions craze.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Latest Links: 800 Jobs Up For Grabs At Merrimack Outlets Job Fair, Legislature Considers Expanding Energy Subsidies\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/roundup\/latest-links-800-jobs-up-for-grabs-at-merrimack-outlets-job-fair-legislature-considers-expanding-energy-subsidies\/\" target=\"_blank\">Latest Links: 800 Jobs Up For Grabs At Merrimack Outlets Job Fair, Legislature Considers Expanding Energy Subsidies<\/a>: The other big news of the day&#8211;800 jobs on offer at a job fair in Merrimack&#8211;also captured your clicks.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Executive Council Mulls Massive Medicaid Contract\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2012\/03\/27\/executive-council-mulls-massive-medicaid-contract\/\" target=\"_blank\">Executive Council Mulls Massive Medicaid Contract<\/a>: NHPR&#8217;s Dan Gorenstein delves into the difficult questions Executive Councilors face as they prepare to vote on the largest contract in state history.<!--more--><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Fairpoint Fees Could Go To Customers\u2026Or Back To Fairpoint\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2012\/03\/26\/fairpoint-fees-could-go-to-customers-or-back-to-fairpoint\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fairpoint Fees Could Go To Customers\u2026Or Back To Fairpoint<\/a>: We present the highlights of a piece from TheLobbyNH.com looking at how Fairpoint wants to be allowed to reinvest fees for poor service into its broadband network.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"NH Imports 100 Jobs From China\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2012\/03\/27\/100-jobs-to-return-to-nh-from-china\/\" target=\"_blank\">NH Imports 100 Jobs From\u00a0China<\/a>: More good news on the jobs (and manufacturing) front, as Watts Water Technologies breaks ground in Franklin.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Friday!\u00a0 (Or should we say, &#8220;Happy Mega Millions Drawing Day?&#8221;)\u00a0 At any rate, as you count down the hours to the end of the workday and the start of the weekend, we&#8217;re happy to present you with our weekly round up of economy-flavored brain food: Why The Mega Millions Jackpot Is Extra-Important For New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":7274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[196,192,529,558,565,515],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7273"}],"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=7273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7279,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7273\/revisions\/7279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}