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Handgun permits issued in Connecticut rose by 73 percent in 2016 over 2015, and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has proposed raising state pistol permitting fees, which the administration says will cover the increased cost of issuing firearms permits.
In your data analysis process, do you find yourself repeating the same tasks over and over again? This tutorial will show you how to create a function and save it as a package in R.
A bill now in its early stages would put Connecticut’s open data practices — established in an executive order — on the law books for good.
The Republican proposal to replace Obamacare has big implications for Connecticut residents depending on different factors like age and income level. Here’s how subsidies for buying health insurance would change in Connecticut.
There are a number of times when defendants are considered for bail, from police contact through trial, disposition and ultimately sentencing. Here’s how that shook out in 2014.
The state’s bail system aims to protect public safety and make sure people show up for court using the “least restrictive” manner possible, so understanding the risks posed by each defendant is a key part of that system. It turns out, there’s a formula to help with that.
What are they, and what policies do they follow that federal immigration authorities object to?
Police agencies across the state are breaking the law by failing to make policies for misconduct complaints accessible to the the public, according to a survey released today by the American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut.
The state’s 2017 legislative session is dominated by discussion related to the budget. But what other topics do Connecticut’s legislators spend time on?
Many towns experienced an increase in their grand list between 2013 and 2014 but the vast majority have declined since 2008, according to an analysis of recently released data from the Office of Policy and Management.
API data can provide a rich source for journalists and data scientists, and I think I’ve found the simplest API on the web to get you started. In this article, we’ll take a REST API run by the FAA to provide airport status information and write an API wrapper for it so we can access the data in future code. You should have some comfort writing code, and experience with Python if you want to follow along but the principles can be applied in any programming language. Python is pretty readable if you can write code in any language.
December is a big month for religious followers. Evangelical Protestants outnumber other religious adherents in more than half the counties in the country, or about 1766. Catholics are second, with about 800 counties where they outnumber others. With the most followers in about 500 counties, Mainline Protestants is third.
The first four hours of New Year’s Day are also the worst four hours of the year, according to a TrendCT analysis of data from UConn’s Connecticut Crash Data Repository.