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Jake Kara
Jake was Data Editor at CT Mirror. He is a former managing editor of The Ridgefield Press, a Hersam Acorn newspaper. He worked for the community newspaper chain as a reporter and editor for five years before joining the Mirror staff. He studied professional writing at Western Connecticut State University and is a graduate student in software engineering at Harvard Extension School.
Posted inHealth
Best of 2019: Blacks dying from fentanyl at same rate as whites for first time
Experts aren’t sure what is driving up death rate for blacks, but point to spread of fentanyl in inner cities and the state’s declining prison population as possible reasons.
Posted inHealth
Blacks dying from fentanyl at same rate as whites for first time
Experts aren’t sure what is driving up death rate for blacks, but point to spread of fentanyl in inner cities and the state’s declining prison population as possible reasons.
Posted inEducation
Most school districts improve in statewide testing
Nearly three-quarters of the state’s school districts improved performance on the state’s Next Generation Accountability test.
Posted inPolitics
Conn. officials embark on outreach campaign for 2020 Census
State and local officials and community leaders on Monday announced outreach efforts to ensure Connecticut’s population is counted as accurately as possible in the 2020 Census.
Posted inHealth
New state data: HIV diagnoses up in 2017
HIV diagnoses increased in Connecticut from 2016 to 2017, but long term, the number has been on the decline.
Posted inPolitics
Lawmakers find hope in diversity, bipartisanship as 2019 legislative session opens
Lawmakers opened the 2019 session Wednesday with optimism and lofty goals, insisting diversity and bipartisan cooperation could overcome the state’s budgetary limitations. Longtime legislative leaders and fresh-faced newcomers stood elbow to elbow as their took their oaths of office, celebrated with their families, and expressed confidence that they could overcome party and policy differences during […]
Posted inHealth
Discrimination questions add new depth to Wellbeing Survey
Connecticut residents who said in a recent survey that they received less respect or poorer treatment than others from health care providers linked that discrimination to their health insurance status — more than race, age or gender. These experiences of discrimination — not just racial, but relating to gender, sexual identity, appearance, education — are captured in new questions on a survey that takes a broad look at quality of life in Connecticut.
Posted inHousing
Census: Conn. homeowners less burdened by housing costs
Data from the five-year American Community Survey tells us that Connecticut homeowners have seen monthly housing expenses decrease, and fewer are spending what is considered a too-large part of their income on housing. But the same improvements haven’t been seen by renters, who are increasing in number.
Posted inNews
State focuses on most vulnerable in effort to eradicate new HIV cases
On Monday, the Getting to Zero commission presented a report to the Department of Public Health containing findings from listening sessions held around the state. One fact gleaned from those sessions is that black women, although 40 times more likely to be diagnosed with HIV than white women, aren’t aware of their increased risk.
Posted inNews
Census: Increase in CT drivers spending more than an hour to get to work
Commutes are getting longer and more Connecticut drivers are spending at least an hour to get to work — particularly in Fairfield County — new data from the U.S. Census Bureau show.
Posted inJustice
Advocates place gun storage measure among top legislative priorities
A measure to tighten Connecticut’s firearm storage law is expected to be on a shortlist of gun reform bills tackled in the upcoming legislative session. The proposal will likely come amid advocates’ attempts to shepherd other legislation banning untraceable ghost guns and 3D-printed plastic guns through the legislative process.
Posted inHousing
Fewer homeless in Connecticut, data shows, but problems still persist
While a majority of people sleeping in Connecticut homeless shelters are from the state’s struggling cities, people from the wealthiest towns tend to spend more time in shelters when they do end up there. This is just one of the conclusions that can be drawn from an examination of data compiled by the Connecticut Coalition […]
Posted inPolitics
A blue wave? Actually, the blues got bluer, but the reds also got redder
A blue wave swept across Connecticut to give Democrats solid majorities in the General Assembly, but the race for governor offered little sign of a political realignment: If anything, the reds got redder and the blues got bluer on the state’s electoral map.
Almost 100 towns voted more strongly in favor of the party they had chosen in 2014.
Posted inPolitics
Democrats make solid gains in General Assembly
Democrats made their first state legislative gains in 10 years Tuesday night, breaking an 18-18 tie in the Senate by picking up three Republican seats and defending vulnerable Democratic lawmakers who were targeted by the GOP.