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Scott PowersOctober 29, 2018

Yet again, a 21st-century business model is clashing with how business always has been done — creating a running battle at Orlando International Airport and other airports where authorities are trying to stop emerging car-sharing operations from acting, in the airports’ views, as unpermitted, unregulated rental-car companies. Specifically, the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority and Turo, […]

Scott PowersOctober 21, 2017

Rene Plasencia sees it in the faces of countless Puerto Rican Hurricane Maria refugees when he or someone else says, “we’re here to help you.” A mixture of anguish, relief, pain, joy, fear, confidence, hopelessness, hope — all the emotions of losing everything and traveling to a strange, new place with almost nothing, and then […]

Associated PressSeptember 12, 2017

Most commercial airports in Florida reopened Tuesday, but activity was limited and hundreds of flights were canceled or delayed as the state recovered from Hurricane Irma. American Airlines said the storm forced it to cancel more than 5,000 flights over several days, cutting into revenue and profit. Miami International Airport said that some airline and […]

Phil AmmannNovember 24, 2015

Carlos Lopez-Cantera took a break from campaigning for the U.S. Senate to spread some Thanksgiving cheer to families in Allapattah, one of Miami’s oldest neighborhoods. The Republican lieutenant governor participated in the Allapattah Community Center charity giveaway Monday. Meeting with members of the community, Lopez-Cantera gave out Thanksgiving turkeys at the annual event that provides […]

Guest AuthorJuly 13, 2015

On climate change adaptation, the hour is very late. Only seven years ago the mainstream media began reporting the likelihood that warming temperatures at the arctic extremes could begin releasing vast quantities of methane gas into the atmosphere, with its potential to rapidly double the amount of global warming gases already overloading the atmosphere. With […]

Tag: Miami International Airport

Next clash over ‘sharing’ business models — cars — being waged at Orlando airport

Anguish, relief, fear, hope: Relief efforts serving thousands of Puerto Rico storm refugees

Airports open but cancellations linger

Carlos Lopez-Cantera volunteers at annual Allapattah Thanksgiving turkey giveaway

Alan Farago: Mr. President, that alarm you hear is the climate clock running out