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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone! We’ve had a spectacularly busy year and are looking forward to new friends and new challenges in the year ahead.

With a week left in 2018, we are at 95 percent of our membership goal. Public service journalism is absolutely crucial to democracy and it is expensive to produce. To do it well, reporters need to be there at the Capitol, taking notes, capturing images and video — asking the hard questions.

CTNewsJunkie is a little bi...t of a miracle. We aren't foundation supported. We don’t use a paywall. We don’t dump celebrity nonsense or clickbait onto our site or into our email newsletters. And yes, we do depend on advertising, but there’s only so many ads we can sell in a given year without making the site unusable. And after nearly 14 years reporting the news we remain a small business in every sense — locally owned and operated — and we take very seriously the responsibility of being part of your daily news diet.

We do this occasional “ask” for new member-subscribers because we would like to one day hire some employees, rather than paying reporters on a freelance basis. Each year that we see net growth in our subscriber list — particularly in the auto-renewals — we get a little bit closer to hiring.

And as we head into the 2019 legislative session, we (you) need as many reporters as possible at the Capitol to keep providing the best possible coverage each day. We can’t do it without your support. For as little as the price of a cup of coffee a week, we will keep you up to date on issues that impact you directly.

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Average gasoline prices have dropped 26.1 cents nationally and 22.5 cents in Connecticut over the past month. The lowest price reported Wednesday via GasBuddy - aside from those offered by membership retailers - was ***$2.29 per gallon*** at both A-1 in Willimantic and Classic in Meriden. The average price reported statewide was $2.629 per gallon according to GasBuddy and $2.656 per gallon according to AAA.

HERE'S THE DATA:
https://www.ctnewsjunkie.com/todays_gas_prices/

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