December 13, 2023 5-alarm fire with extremely heavy smoke giving NY firefighters tough time Firefighters in New York have been working to put out a stubborn five-alarm fire that broke out overnight in the Bronx. The alarms went off at about 3:30 a.m.
December 11, 2023 Collapsed 6-story Bronx apartment building had ‘unsafe façade conditions,’ no victims found New York firefighters are at the scene of a partial building collapse in the Bronx, going through the rubble, looking for anyone who may have been inside.
December 5, 2023 School bus driver accused of raping student on bus in high school parking lot A school bus driver in New York has been indicted for allegedly raping and kidnapping a student who used his bus route.
November 21, 2023 Florida man convicted of cyber harassing his New York family tens of thousands of times A man in Miami has been found guilty of three counts of cyber harassment and the victims were his cousin, her husband, and their 12-year-old daughter in New York.
November 13, 2023 Video: Woman attacks father in Brooklyn park, apparently over scarf in possible hate crime Police are looking for a woman caught committing a possible hate crime in a Brooklyn park. The victim posted video showing her throwing something at him and screaming “get away!”
October 19, 2023 Man accused of pushing woman onto NYC subway tracks in custody, report says The man wanted for pushing a woman into a train and onto the tracks at a New York City subway station has reportedly been arrested.
October 4, 2023 New poll has Haley over DeSantis among Republicans in New Hampshire, but Trump far ahead of both There’s a bit of a shakeup in the Republican presidential race. Nikki Haley has jumped way ahead of Ron DeSantis in a poll of likely Republican primary voters in New Hampshire.
October 4, 2023 Mom who disappeared with her 3 children are no longer listed as missing, sheriff’s office says The Virginia mom who disappeared with her three young children, a month ago, has now been removed “from the local and national missing persons databases.”
October 3, 2023 Trump trial: Limited gag order for disparaging judge’s principal law clerk on social media Donald Trump and lawyers for both sides met with the judge in his civil business fraud trial and Trump deleted a disparaging social media post from the morning about the judge’s principal law clerk.
October 2, 2023 Bowman’s suggested defense to fellow Dems: ‘Republicans need to instead focus their energy on the Nazi members of their party’ The congressman who pulled a fire alarm in a House office building over the weekend is now in hot water over a memo he sent to fellow Democrats — but did he actually write it?
October 2, 2023 Day 1 of Trump’s New York fraud trial: ‘We did nothing wrong … There’s no case here’ Former President Donald Trump spent Monday in a New York courtroom as his fraud trial began and, in the end, the defendant claimed a victory because of something the judge mentioned.
September 30, 2023 Democratic representative accused of pulling fire alarm near Capitol to delay funding vote A congressman from New York is being accused of bad behavior before the House voted on the funding bill to keep federal agencies open. An investigation is already underway and there are calls for prosecution.
March 9, 2023 Lithium, toilet don’t mix: 3 middle school students charged after toxic chemical reaction Three middle school students are in trouble after the fire department got “a report of some type of smoke in a bathroom” on Tuesday.
January 4, 2023 Despite claiming ‘That didn’t happen,’ George Santos could face 15-year-old fraud charge The latest allegation against George Santos isn’t that he lied, but that he stole, and his notoriety could lead to him being charged with fraud by the end of the week.
December 22, 2022 When is last call? New law could leave bars with different closing times Closing time could come at different times for bars in one New York town.
November 16, 2022 DeSantis: ‘We just finished this election. People just need to chill out a bit…’ Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced he is awarding money to victims of Hurricane Ian and to three colleges for workforce education, but he ended his remarks with a quick political note.
November 7, 2022 Help or hurt? Trump calls Florida’s governor ‘DeSanctimonious’ in early 2024 competition Two big-name Republicans from Florida have visited another state with high offices up for grabs in Tuesday’s midterm elections, and one resorted to a disparaging nickname about the other.
April 20, 2022 Ladapo unmasked: Why his former boss didn’t think he deserved to be Fla. surgeon general We’re seeing for the first time a background check performed on Florida’s controversial surgeon general, earlier this year. It includes what his former supervisor had to say, which was that Florida should not hire him.
February 24, 2022 Gov. DeSantis trumps Donald Trump in new GOP Florida poll There could be a new leader of the Republican Party, at least in Florida. A new poll has Gov. Ron DeSantis beating former president Donald Trump.
May 3, 2019 Lenny’s update, and the writing and posting you may have missed You may have actually looked at the homepage of this blog, CohenConnect.com, and thought I hadn’t been writing. It may have looked that way,…
October 28, 2018 Not a good day for political thoughts, the USA as a whole I’ve known I had another blog post “due” before the election, if you know how I think, but too much on my mind and…
October 16, 2018 Political pondering, 3 weeks before Election Day The “game” of politics is no fun anymore. Discussing anything having to do with it used to be educating and entertaining, and sometimes enlightening,…
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…
October 2, 2018 News starting out good but going downhill fast It’s a happy moment at CohenConnect.com. (Online definition of moment: “a very brief period of time.” The italics are mine.) September’s blog numbers were…
September 14, 2018 Eric Trump and his shekels I try not to go more than a week without posting something. Unfortunately, it has been 11 days dues to holidays that won’t be…
June 7, 2018 Grave situation for hours outside Detroit Aug. 26, 2018 UPDATE: Grave marker raised and leveled, in early August. I may be back in a few weeks. I don’t go on…
May 29, 2018 The lousiness of laziness and liars I hate lazy people (and stupid ones, but that’s a blog for another time). I can understand being sick. Last year, I showed up…
May 25, 2018 Follow-Up Friday, plus David Hogg defeats Publix First, I want to thank you for all your reading. This is my 99th blog and so far there have been more than 14,100…
May 13, 2018 In defense: The good Facebook can do when used by the right people First, happy Mother’s Day to everyone to whom that applies. I hope you’re having a great day! Second, today is also the celebration of…
May 2, 2018 In defense of Emma González, not that she needs it but deserves it I have a lot more on Marjory Stoneman Douglas hero Emma González, not a hero for surviving but for her activism after. She has…
April 25, 2018 Who says everything I write is negative (but correct)? This is my 90th blog post and like most journalists, I identify mistakes all over and somehow — often through publicity — try to…
April 19, 2018 Sanctuary cities judges show they know justice, not politics I’m not writing to take an opinion on the issues of sanctuary cities or illegal immigration, but have to say I’m pleased a gang of Republican-appointed federal judges were willing to rule against a president from their own party.