As the legislative session’s final hours tick down, here’s an updated look at how each side would balance the nearly $1 billion budget shortfall for the upcoming fiscal year.
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.
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Budget tracker: See where each side stands
The budget shortfall for the coming fiscal year is approaching $1 billion, but Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and legislative leaders remain at odds on how to fix it. Here’s an updated look at how each side would address the problem.
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Republican primary results in Connecticut, town by town
These town by town results shown are drawn from the first use of a new electronic reporting system run by the Secretary of the State’s office to gather election returns shortly after the polls close. Results are likely to be incomplete, because participation by town election officials was voluntary. Use of the new system will […]
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Democratic primary results in Connecticut, town by town
These town-by-town results are drawn from the first use of a new electronic reporting system run by the Secretary of the State’s office to gather election returns shortly after the polls close. Results are likely to be incomplete, because participation by town election officials was voluntary. Use of the new system will be mandatory in […]
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Track the 2016-17 budget as it unfolds
As the state budget process unfolds for the 2016-2017 fiscal year, this tool is designed to help you track how specific programs, places and issues fare in each proposal – and in the final budget.
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Is wealth leaving the state?
The claim that wealth is leaving the state is often discussed, but does the data back it up? We analyzed two decades of IRS statistics on income among people moving from state to state to see if we could answer that question.
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Who is dying in Connecticut’s opioid overdose crisis
Questions have been raised about whether the attention paid to the rise in opioid deaths is related to its impact on whites. In Connecticut, that racial disparity is real and growing. Second of four stories.