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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Gov. Ron DeSantis may have sounded like he was talking to the rest of America, but a USF political communications expert says the governor was actually playing it safe. -
The technology connects vehicles to highway infrastructure to warn drivers about things like entering on an exit ramp or being on a collision course with a trolley. -
Pinellas County opioid deaths are being addressed through CORE, an initiative being slowly rolled out across the state. -
A new law that requires boat renters to carry insurance could put the industry in jeopardy. -
Nearly the entire population of Tampa, Kansas visited Tampa, Florida this week. -
She says renderings of the proposals to redevelop the Historic Gas Plant District — and the site of Tropicana Field — will not resemble the actual project in 20 years. -
Four companies presented their proposals to redevelop the Historic Gas Plant District by Friday's deadline. Mayor Ken Welch has made affordable housing a focus of the plans. -
Pasco voters easily reapproved the Penny for Pasco tax referendum that has been in effect for 18 years and has generated $1 billion for county school improvements and other government expenses. -
Kathy Castor will retain her U.S. House of Representatives seat, and a Hillsborough County Transportation tax failed to pass. -
The redrawing of the district made it more favorable for Republicans. Luna lost the seat to Crist in 2020, when the district favored Democrats.
