Connecticut sold two Christmas trees for every 100 residents in 2019, the 7th-highest rate in the country. Some New England states sold more.
José Luis Martínez
José is CT Mirror's data reporter, reporting data-driven stories and integrating data visualizations into his colleagues' stories. Prior to joining CT Mirror he spent the summer of 2022 at the Wall Street Journal as an investigative data intern. Prior to that, José held internships or fellowships with Texas Tribune, American Public Media Group, ProPublica, Bloomberg and the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas. A native of Houston, he graduated from the University of Texas with a degree in journalism.
Posted inInvestigations
How the battle for absentee ballots defined the Bridgeport election
Over 22% of all votes cast in the Bridgeport Democratic primary were absentee ballots. This is the story of the battle behind the scenes.
Posted inInvestigations
How CT Mirror investigated Bridgeport’s absentee voting process
CT Mirror documented how Bridgeport political operatives influenced absentee voting in this year’s mayoral primary. Here’s how we did it.
Posted inCharting Connecticut
Charting CT: Is your town getting older or younger?
The median age in CT was 40.9 in 2022, making it the seventh-oldest state, Census Bureau estimates say. But median ages vary among CT towns.
Posted inCharting Connecticut
Charting CT: How popular is the library in your town?
Despite a years-long downward trend in the number of registered borrowers, there is some post-pandemic recovery at many CT public libraries.
Posted inCharting Connecticut
Charting CT: EV sales are rising, but prices remain high
The number of electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid vehicles in CT went from about 4,800 in 2016 to 35,100 in 2022, up 6.3% over six years.
Posted inCharting Connecticut
Charting CT: Flowers account for almost 25% of CT’s ag sales
Since 2018, floriculture has made up no less than a fifth of all ag sales in CT, with a high of 27.3% in 2021 and a low of 22.6% in 2018.
Posted inCharting Connecticut
Charting CT: As spending revs up in CT, some costs in the Northeast rise as well
Spending in Connecticut this fall has been nearly 30% above January 2020, but prices for food, shelter, clothing and gasoline are up as well.
Posted inCharting Connecticut
Charting CT: How does 2023 voter turnout compare to previous years?
Four of CT’s biggest cities had mayoral elections, but none of them had even a quarter of voters show up to the polls.
Posted inPolitics
CT 2023 municipal elections: Live results
CT Mirror is publishing results from local races across CT as the Secretary of the State’s office reports them. Keep up with the tallies here.
Posted inEspañol
Elecciones municipales de CT 2023: Resultados en vivo
CT Mirror estará publicando los resultados de las contiendas locales a medida que la oficina de la Secretaria de Estado los reporte. Sigue aquí las últimas cifras.
Posted inCharting Connecticut
Charting CT: Was CT’s first frost late this year? Here’s the data
As of the end of October, much of Connecticut had yet to see a hard frost. Data shows that’s not unusual — but are things changing?
Posted inCharting Connecticut
Charting CT: CT’s 183 haunted places — Here’s where people reported sightings
A website where people submit personal accounts of haunted places had 183 submissions from CT between 1994 and 2010. Here’s where they were.
Posted inTransportation
2022 was the deadliest year for car crashes in Connecticut
An estimated 368 people died in car crashes in CT in 2022, an average of more than one traffic fatality per day.
Posted inCharting Connecticut
Charting CT: Black residents have higher mortality rates
Black residents’ mortality rates were more than double those of white residents for chronic kidney disease and COVID-19, a new report shows.
