August 26, 2025 It’s like all Jewish museums are the same! The Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History was vandalized, but WCAU reported the story with video calling the place a Holocaust museum.
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 5, 2020 Hey Trump! Call it quits or history will judge you even more harshly Two days have passed since the election for President of the United States. We knew this election was not going to be like any other.
December 27, 2019 Have you noticed Comcast’s Christmas gift to itself? It’s that time of year again. No. I take that back. A few weeks ago, it was that time of year again. Regular and long-time CohenConnect readers may recognize the Comcast graphic with Santa Claus.
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.
August 15, 2019 ThePhillyFiles’ six-week milestone! I sent the following to subscribers of ThePhillyFiles on Mailchimp: It’s hard for me to believe but today marks *six weeks* since the kickoff of ThePhillyFiles.com! Of course, it’s not like there was nothing on July 3, and everything suddenly appeared on July 4.
August 9, 2019 The war on guns, from Philadelphia to the feds It’s almost a week since gunmen killed 31 people in mass shootings, 13 hours apart, and nothing concrete has been done to reduce the risk of gun violence in the U.S.
November 28, 2018 Level-headed moderation needed now in The Birthplace of America Philadelphia is a great place to live. It has so much, so close-by: history, museums, sports. It’s walkable, livable, has green space. Too bad it has people in charge who don’t care about serving the public.
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 After this morning’s 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.
September 14, 2018 Eric Trump and his shekels I’m putting this post out there because of a discussion on my Facebook page over Eric Trump’s shekels comment and the Washington Post article near the top of it. I expected some support. Any support.
August 27, 2018 Not the typical pet, not the typical vet appointment What a morning, and I hadn’t even gotten to the vet’s office! It was time for Frisky’s first annual physical. That’s 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.
July 8, 2018 From Philly? How your neighborhood (or one nearby) got its name Philadelphia may be one of the biggest cities in the country and arguably the most historic, considering it is the birthplace of our country….
June 7, 2018 Grave situation for hours outside Detroit I don’t go on many vacations and didn’t plan to write a blog on this one, but the most unusual thing happened while trying to visit my grandfather’s grave at the cemetery in Royal Oak, Michigan.
June 2, 2018 Sign, sign, everywhere a sign Who would’ve thought of me as some type of music expert? Definitely not anybody who knows me! I’ve been planning this blog for a…
April 17, 2018 Comey comes alive with tough talk against Trump I didn’t know much about James Comey until about two years ago. Since then, I thought pretty highly of the guy and that really hasn’t changed.
December 20, 2017 Today, Merry Christmas to Comcast! You’re welcome! No waiting until Christmas on Monday. Comcast, you obviously consider yourself too powerful. Today, your hard-earned rate hikes take effect. Santa says you’ve been…
November 27, 2017 Special streets, signs in the City of Brotherly Love (and Sisterly Affection) Philadelphia street signs are different than in much of the country. For example, there’s no downtown. Locals call that part Center City. If you’re…
November 21, 2017 Lessons on addressing, our government’s gift to you! On Facebook? You’re probably signed up for a lesson on mailing a letter, paid for by the U.S. government, like the one above. I…
November 9, 2017 What is conscience? Elusive in the media, unfortunately It seems every day in the news, I read about another powerful man resigning, taking time off from a high-profile job, or under police…
October 6, 2017 Update: Storing the car on the mean streets This blog post I found was written in mid-May, 2016, but never published. It was part of a series on the difficulties I had…
February 17, 2017 Beating Welch’s un-kosher coupon policy I don’t get shocked too much anymore. Maybe that’s from age, or having done a lot of things in a lot of places. Maybe…
February 3, 2017 The media: Certainly imperfect, definitely necessary and trying This is my first blog in several months, and only my second since arriving back in Philadelphia. The first was shortly after my return, so…
May 16, 2016 Not exactly a warm welcome I got to Philadelphia and it rained. For a week. And it was much colder than normal for late April. And I saw my…
April 25, 2016 Moving back to Philly! Yes, you read correctly! I’m headed back after more than 12 years. I didn’t really think it was going to happen, especially considering the…
November 1, 2015 A great ‘day’ in Lenny’s ‘life’ When you’ve watched a daily TV show on and off for 20 years, even very rarely recently because work gets in the way, it…
