In 2025, CT Mirror journalists investigated laws and practices around towing, long-term care insurance, lead pipes and more.
CT Mirror’s biggest investigations in 2025
Posted inNews
CT Mirror editors’ selections: compelling, distinctive work in 2025
After heated discussions, the editors managed to put together a Top 10 list of some—certainly not all—of our favorite work published in 2025.
Posted inCities & Towns
CT Mirror’s new community engagement reporting: The year in review
In 2025, we hired community engagement reporters in Bridgeport and Hartford who immediately went to work getting to know their communities.
Posted inTalking Transportation
A year of planes, plates, gold stars and folly
Jim Cameron’s Talking Transportation columns are some of the best-read pieces in the CT Mirror. Here are his five most read columns of 2025.
Posted inCharting Connecticut
Charting CT: The best of 2025
From the legislative session in the spring to the impacts of federal rules more recently, 2025 has offered many quantifiable looks at CT.
Posted inCT Mirror Explains
When 2025 got confusing in CT, we explained. These were your favorites
We strive to help readers make sense of how public policy affects their lives. One way we do that is through our CT Mirror Explains series.
Posted inNews
Top 10 CT Mirror stories of 2025: What people spent the most time reading
The top 10 stories include a mix of investigative reporting, political updates and feature stories about life in Connecticut.
Posted inImmigration
CT teen released by ICE marks first success story of new pro bono attorney coalition
The American Immigrant Legal Clinic offers services pro bono to immigrants who cannot afford legal representation.
Posted inJustice
Advocates call on lawmakers to make changes to probation system
Legislation was introduced this year, but it never received a public hearing. Advocates want lawmakers to consider a similar bill in 2026.
Posted inPhotos
A common thread: Ukrainians in CT keep ties with culture, home through embroidery
The current war, and the hardships that came with it, elevated the art’s significance. For members of the diaspora, each piece is personal.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Washington is ignoring a $362 billion chronic illness
The economic consequences of chronic fatigue syndrome are enormous. Yet federal research funding bears almost no relationship to that burden.
Posted inPolitics
A legislator and then a staffer, Ziobron is seeking her old House seat
On Tuesday, former state Rep. Melissa H. Ziobron announced her candidacy to regain the 34th House District seat that she gave up in 2018.
Posted inPartner Content
Murphy says ‘60 Minutes’ pulling segment is ‘how democracy dies’
The Connecticut senator said the move “previews what’s coming in American media as more and more networks get bought” by corporate interests
Posted inImmigration
CT residents detained by ICE remembered at Hartford vigil
The vigil was the latest effort by Hartford Deportation Defense, Jewish Voice for Peace and others to draw attention to the ICE detentions.
Posted inInvestigations
A CT DMV task force was asked to develop towing reforms. As deadline looms, members struggle to agree.
The group was part of a legislative overhaul prompted by a CT Mirror/ProPublica investigation that found the state’s laws favored towing companies.