From classroom accessibility challenges to FEMA buyout offers for houses damaged by Hurricane Helene and an uncertain silica dust rule, we look at how federal action might play out across the region. youtube.com/shorts/l6V5d...

Our short film, “Fasnacht in Helvetia, West Virginia,” will screen on the opening night of this year’s Appalachian Film Festival, held March 20-22, at Foundry Theater in Huntington, W.Va. See the full schedule and buy tickets: www.foundrytheater.org/shows

We at @ctmirror.org are hiring a staff photojournalist. Apply by March 30: ctmirror.org/work-for-us/

@appalachia100.bsky.social partnered with journalist and Minnesotan @katiegnelson.bsky.social to document how Minneapolis residents used grassroots organizing to counter the influx of federal immigration agents, leading to the end of Operation Metro Surge www.100daysinappalachia.com/2026/02/minn...

Don't sleep on Camden. Officials are attributing its lowest homicide rate in 40 years to community connection and disbanding its police department share.inquirer.com/mcPdjh?utm_s...

Shopping secondhand for kids’ stuff is getting more popular in Philly share.inquirer.com/aKvdKn?utm_s...

It's the LAST DAY to give to 100 Days in Appalachia and have your donation doubled. You've got until midnight!

What we witnessed in 2025: CT Mirror's year in photographs ctmirror.org/2025/12/31/w...

A common thread: Ukrainians in CT keep ties with culture, home through embroidery ctmirror.org/2025/12/24/u...

Archivists have saved and uploaded copies of the 60 Minutes episode new CBS editor-in-chief Bari Weiss ordered be shelved as a torrent and multiple file sharing sites. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/archivists-p...

"She was a woman whose unyielding singularity, her urge to really know herself, gave her access to her deepest feelings — and eventually, to the boundless, giving self she had always wanted to be." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"The question isn’t whether we should use [video formats] — it’s whether we should optimize our entire news ecosystem around formats optimized for emotional overwhelm rather than sustained understanding." www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/shor...

Last year, I reported on the work conditions of college RAs, including NYU students who were trying to unionize what they referred to as the “twenty-four-hour job." They just posted that Student Workers at NYU reached a deal: the first contract gives RAs pay, better working conditions, & more.

CT doesn’t regulate homeschooling. Many parents want to keep it that way ctmirror.org/2025/12/14/c...

“I was born quick, competitive, ambitious and with a great body, but I was also born in the Midwest." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/s...

This #GivingTuesday, 100 Days in Appalachia has a goal of raising $5,000 to keep our unique storytelling thriving in 2026. Every dollar you give to today will be TRIPLED – increasing your impact for our team and the Appalachians we employ! Give by midnight to triple your support: buff.ly/7IVVWEt

In Ukraine, Yale-trained doctors treat complex combat injuries ctmirror.org/2025/11/07/y...

Michael Days, pioneering journalist who led the Philadelphia Daily News during its 2010 Pulitzer Prize win for investigative reporting, has died at 72 share.inquirer.com/eog2nb?utm_s...

26 years after lobster die-off, CT lobstermen reflect on a net loss ctmirror.org/2025/10/19/2...

There's a lot happening that impacts young people, so going to keep sharing: Student + earlyish career journalists and writers in Appalachia, pitch! If you're an organizer, involved in your community, etc. & have an opinion you want to write about, please pitch, too. DMs are open for questions!

Remember those court records that Miami Dophins receiver Tyreek Hill wanted sealed? They are now unsealed and up at @defector.com. The paywall is also down:

This Ukrainian family fled war in Odesa and found a foothold in CT ctmirror.org/2025/09/28/c...

Hartford doula training targets gaps in care for Spanish speakers ctmirror.org/2025/09/24/d...

For this New Britain man, late summer is pigeon racing season ctmirror.org/2025/09/21/c...

Lamont nixed overdose prevention centers, but advocates fight on ctmirror.org/2025/08/03/c...

A Buried Threat: Thousands in CT might still be drinking water from lead pipes ctmirror.org/2025/07/27/c...

The jazz festival has offered not just a concert series to Hartford, but also an open egalitarian space: free, outdoors and welcoming to all. ctmirror.org/2025/07/25/g...

Gazans Are Dying of Starvation www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...

"The norms that guide news selection can be used to undermine democracy." www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/how-...

A family of Afghan refugees arrived in CT. Here's what happened. ctmirror.org/2025/05/04/c...

Today is a dangerous one in that it's April 1 and I've already been fooled by @ericaephillips.bsky.social who has beat my annual joke by A LOT

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

Stories like that of Suffield’s Keila Silva show how even high school student projects have gotten caught up in federal cuts.

What did Skype mean to you? Tell us: tally.so/r/wLkXdp

Five years later: When COVID-19 became a global pandemic ctmirror.org/2025/03/11/f...

Join us March 7th for the launch of our RJI Fellow's resources! A sonification toolkit, a sustainability tool, a guide to algorithmic literacy, a news game and more. All resources are free and ready for you and/or your newsroom to utilize. buff.ly/4aw1rPF

I was sad to learn about the passing of Philadelphia LGBTQ activist Tyrone Smith today. We crossed paths in 2020, when I interviewed him for a video. Tyrone could talk forever, and all you'd want to do is listen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn8_...

Freed from prison after 30 years, Hartford man meets a new world - I'm excited to see this work from photojournalist Tabius McCoy published. It was a long effort from his summer internship to getting this to the finish line today. ctmirror.org/2025/02/18/e...

This is really sad! I'm glad I was able to take my kid to see the light show this Christmas, which is a must do for Philly in December. share.inquirer.com/SSUMEX?utm_s...

If we are gonna do discourse about newsletters again I need to remind you all I pay an editor to edit fact check me and I don’t do hot takes and you should subscribe to my newsletter lyz.substack.com

In case anyone is dealing with a second school closure day, Mary Poppins Returns is a completely captivating 2h10m watch.

its wild how vaping might be just as bad as smoking but still looks way less cool

Have edited and designed and scheduled so many end-of-year fundraising emails that simple words look incorrect. My reward is RHOSLC and I'm not sorry about that.

CT 'Society of Santas' shares memories: 'You can't break character' ctmirror.org/2024/12/24/c...

CT’s sugar kelp farmers are navigating their way into new markets ctmirror.org/2024/12/20/c...

“But it is not enough to have narrative power. True power is economic power, and this is why we invest money and wages in the voices, production and talent of Appalachians.” www.100daysinappalachia.com/2024/12/from...

CT bids farewell to Jodi Rell, the governor who calmed a crisis ctmirror.org/2024/12/03/j...

CT dual credit classes: A ‘huge equalizer’ that isn’t always available ctmirror.org/2024/12/01/c...

I've been watching Grey's Anatomy from the start for about a month. I'm so impressed. Not only can you have a surgeon-patient ratio of 6:1 at Seattle Grace Hospital, but they can also sing Snow Patrol while you're coding.

Republican M. Jodi Rell served as CT’s governor from 2004 to 2011, steadying the state after the resignation of Gov. John G. Rowland. ctmirror.org/2024/11/21/j...