Jeff Cohen
Jeff Cohen started in newspapers in 2001 and joined Connecticut Public in 2010, where he worked as a reporter and fill-in host. In 2017, he was named news director.
In addition to covering state and Hartford city politics, Jeff covered the December 2012 Newtown shootings and the stories that followed. In 2012, Jeff was selected by NPR and Kaiser Health News for their jointHealth Care In The Statesproject. Much of his reporting has aired nationally on NPR. As news director, Jeff beganThe Island Next Door -- Puerto Rico and Connecticut After Hurricane Maria,which has won several awards, including one national and two regional Edward R. Murrow awards.
Jeff began as a reporter forThe Record-Journalin Meriden, Conn. before moving toThe Hartford Courant, where he won a National Headliner Award for a story about the ostracized widow of the state's first casualty in Iraq; wrote about his post-Katrina home in New Orleans; and was part of a team that broke stories of alleged corruption at Hartford City Hall that led to the arrest of the city’s mayor. His work has also appeared inThe New York Times.
Jeff lives with his wife andtwo daughters, whose haircutting incident brought the family more notoriety than journalism ever will.He's written two children's books, and he likes hiking, whitewater kayaking, napping outside, and making bread and wine.
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Former World Wrestling Entertainment executive Linda McMahon is making her second run for a U.S. Senate seat in Connecticut. Once again she is campaigning with primarily her own millions. And her opponents again say she can't separate herself from the controversial side of professional wrestling. -
The Department of Housing and Urban Development is in the early stages of rethinking the way it calculates rent subsidies. The result could be to give Section 8 recipients enough money to afford rent wherever they choose. In Dallas, a change in the program could mean an opportunity for some, and a challenge for others.
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The budget season in Connecticut began with a gamble. Democratic Gov. Dannel Malloy said he and labor leaders would find a way to save $2 billion, and the Democratic legislature said okay. Eventually, the governor and the state's unions came to an agreement on ways to save money in pensions, health care and other areas. But with just days to go before the July 1 budget deadline, the state's 46,000 workers rejected that deal. Now, Malloy wants lawmakers to give him the go-ahead to lay off more than 6,000 to balance his budget. Jeff Cohen reports from Hartford.
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Connecticut's Hartford Public Schools district lets parents pick which school to send their child to. As the theory goes, parents should naturally choose the good schools over the bad ones — but as it turns out, they often don't.
