June 11, 2025 The news has moved! Regular readers looking for news from Florida and not finding it here at CohenConnect.com should not be disappointed.
May 20, 2025 The day I saw Queen Elizabeth This future journalist was interning in the newsroom at WFLA-TV during the summer semester of 1991. Queen Elizabeth II was about to visit and it was an exciting time.
August 26, 2022 Lenny Cohen’s bio on cbs12.com Lenny Cohen arrived at CBS12 News as dayside digital content producer in 2021, writing news as it happens for cbs12.com and then going beyond the headlines to show why people need to read those articles on social media platforms.
November 28, 2019 To Thanksgiving, and the best TV episode ever dedicated to it This year, I reposted a Facebook memory from all the way back in 2018. It contrasts my good feelings about the holiday growing up in Florida, through last year, which was much colder than this one.
November 21, 2018 The end of an era, and beginning of this one (Part A of this one) It was 20 years ago tonight. Not exactly. It was actually four days off, on Nov. 25, but what really matters is it was the night before Thanksgiving in 1998.
October 28, 2018 Not a good day for political thoughts, the USA as a whole Iâve known I had another blog post âdueâ before the election, if you know how I think, but too much on my mind and so much going on â personally and in the news â to actually do it. After this morningâs attack in a Pittsburgh neighborhood where I have family and have been to several times, I did some reading and a lot of soul-searching before starting to write. Iâm hoping others who I trust and posted thoughts will unknowingly help a lot.
October 10, 2018 The case against us all paying for private schools Several times a year, before elections, a man in Florida emails me about who to support in elections down there. The goal is to receive money (Isnât that everyoneâs?) for private schools.
August 27, 2018 Not the typical pet, not the typical vet appointment What a morning, and I hadnât even gotten to the vetâs office! It was time for Friskyâs first annual physical. Thatâs not counting the office visit she had a year ago, after I adopted her from Morris Animal Refuge on Clear the Shelters Day. Frisky has always been a tough one.
February 18, 2018 Famous man, 80, suing famous man, 77, for age discrimination Whatâs famous to you obviously relies on where youâve been and what youâve noticed, but these people have had national exposure for at least…
August 24, 2017 Hurricane Andrew, after a quarter century 25 years ago today, this was nothing. Itâs hard to believe so much time has passed, not that I ever forgot a Hurricane Andrew…
April 25, 2016 Moving back to Philly! Yes, you read correctly! Iâm headed back after more than 12 years. I didn’t really think it was going to happen, especially considering the…