Janelle Irwin TaylorNovember 13, 2024
6min0
Current CEO Joe Lopano is retiring in April.
Tag: Joe Lopano
Janelle Irwin TaylorNovember 13, 2024
Peter SchorschApril 19, 2023
7min0
'We ardently advocate that the funds collected ... be applied in the same spirit under which they were collected.'
Renzo DowneyApril 23, 2020
9min953
Essential services never stopped, but that doesn't mean people are ready to use them.
Ryan NicolApril 21, 2020
5min1079
That group differs from the task force executive committee, which was announced Monday.
Phil AmmannAugust 7, 2017
4min384
Tampa International Airport is preparing for the future, moving ahead with a multibillion-dollar expansion project while setting new passenger records in 2017. However, Noah Pransky of WTSP found that TIA appears hesitant to embrace the latest transportation disruptor: ridesharing technology companies Uber and Lyft. With significant ridership increases, Uber and Lyft have impacted airport revenues […]
Mitch PerryMay 24, 2017
12min585
Members of Tampa’s political, business, media and activist communities weighed in Wednesday on the surprising news that Tampa will host the Super Bowl in February 2021. The announcement was unexpected, particularly after the NFL snubbed a local bid last year to host the big game in either 2019, 2020 and 2021. But major rainstorms in Southern […]
Phil AmmannApril 25, 2017
4min312
Tampa International Airport’s chief executive officer welcomed the possibility of an audit as suggested by state Sen. Tom Lee last week. “We get audited all the time,” Joe Lopano said last week at a meeting of the St. Petersburg City Council. The Tampa Bay Business Journal reported Lopano was on hand to present the $543 […]
Mitch PerryApril 17, 2017
10min685
Tom Lee insists he never wanted to air any “dirty laundry” about Tampa International Airport when he attempted to introduce an amendment to the Florida Senate’s budget last Wednesday that would have the airport independently audited. But the Brandon Republican says that there are too many unanswered questions about how the airport is being run for him to […]
Mitch PerryJune 7, 2016
10min465
Carlos Beruff takes a tough line on President Barack Obama’s rapprochement with the Cuban government, but just a few years ago appeared to be a strong advocate that just such a diplomatic breakthrough was desperately needed. On the day the two nations announced they were resuming relations, the Bradenton Herald reported the Manatee County home developer and now Republican U.S. […]
Mitch PerryMarch 20, 2016
11min656
Todd Wilcox was the early aggressor against David Jolly in the first one-on-one encounter between the two aspiring Florida Republicans for the U.S. Senate on Friday, but Jolly more than held his own in a spirited debate at the Tampa Tiger Bay Club. The two men are part of a field of five candidates running to succeed Marco Rubio in the […]