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Newsday reporter Khristopher J. Brooks appears on WHPC to discuss his reporting on the Town of North Hempstead voting to ban the sale of recreational marijuana within town limits.

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KHRISTOPHER J. BROOKS is a reporter for CBS MoneyWatch in New York. He covers economic disparities and other national breaking business and financial news.

Before coming to CBS, Mr. Brooks was a towns reporter for Newsday on Long Island where he produced enterprise, government watchdog and general feature stories focused on communities directly east of New York City. Mr. Brooks was also the innovation and entrepreneurship reporter for the Democrat & Chronicle in Rochester, New York. He has covered higher education at The Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville and The Ledger in Lakeland, Fla., the Omaha World-Herald and the Bristol (Va.) Herald Courier.

Brooks, a Detroit native, studied journalism and political science at Central Michigan University and narrative nonfiction at New York University.

Before coming to Long Island, Mr. Brooks was the innovation and entrepreneurship reporter for the Democrat & Chronicle in Rochester, New York. He was the higher education reporter at The Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville and The Ledger in Lakeland, Fla., the Omaha World-Herald and the Bristol (Va.) Herald Courier. 

His personal interests are professional basketball, herb gardening, traveling and cooking seafood. Brooks began his journalism career in 2000 as a varsity sports reporter for his high school newspaper in Romulus, Mich. He holds a bachelor’s degree in News/Editorial Journalism and General Political Science from Central Michigan and a master's degree in Literary Reportage from New York University.