Craig Kopp
Reporter/HostI started my journalism career delivering the Toledo Blade newspaper on my bike.
The first thing I did was rig a wire basket in the middle of the handlebars to secure my little portable radio. I went nowhere without it. I still don’t. Ok, my radio comes though my phone now, but you get the point.
I love radio.
There’s something so intimate about radio. It’s like the person talking to you is talking to only you. It’s even more so now in the age of earbuds. That’s how I approach my job as a host and reporter. It’s me talking with you about the news in our lives.
When not listening to radio, I pick on the guitar a little, play golf and antique shop with my wife Rhonda, and give our cats, Tony “Boots” and Lucy, as much attention as they require.
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The project includes a new YMCA, hotel, multi-family housing, and retail space. -
Just Elementary students are performing poorly and the school has a shortage of qualified teachers, according to the school district. -
The computer crashed at the Florida motor vehicle department. -
Amid the "woke" controversy, Freedom schools aim to keep teaching African American history. -
With no adjoining state offering abortions, Floridians will have to travel thousands of miles for reproductive health care. -
The president of the Sarasota/Manatee Realtors Association attributes it to the number of people moving to Florida following the pandemic. -
E-bike use is increasing on the Pinellas Trail, as well as downtown streets in Tampa and St. Petersburg. So is concern among some about whether they're safe. -
The city's aging fleet of pedal bikes will be replaced with pedal-assist e-Bikes. -
Two northeastern universities have gone public with plans to recruit students from New College amid changes to move the liberal institution in a more conservative direction. -
Favorable wind and weather conditions are reducing red tide's effect on Clearwater Beach.
