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Richard Danielson - Former Times Reporter
Richard Danielson

Former Times Reporter

  1. Jeff Vinik invests $3 million on early learning research in Hillsborough County
    June 24, 2020• Business
    Evanyriss Arce, teacher at the PromiseLand Early Childhood Education Center at Metropolitan Ministries in Tampa reads the book "How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night?," by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague, to Katheryn Snoody, 3, middle, and Ilianis Delgado, 2, right, both of Tampa in January. Tampa Bay Lightning owner Jeff Vinik has donated $3 million to an initiative to evaluate ways to improve private child care for very young children, and PromiseLand is one of the participating centers, and Arce said the coursework has led her to change the way she handles transitions, such as going to lunch or cleanup time. Instead of just stopping one activity and starting another, she gives the children a little warning, so they're thinking about what's coming up next and what they need to do. She also breaks down the transition into steps, so children are focused on each part of what they're doing. SCOTT KEELER | Times
  2. Tampa’s Primo Water to join Russell 3000 stock index
    June 19, 2020• Business
    Cott Corp. of Tampa changed its name earlier this year to Primo Water Corp. as part of a pivot to become a company built purely on delivering bottled water and filtration systems to customers in 21 countries. (Photo courtesy of Primo Water Corp.)
  3. Jabil cutting 1,500 positions in response to pandemic disruption
    June 19, 2020• Business
    A Jabil factory in Taichung, Taiwan makes a protective mask to be used in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The company has shifted production toward medical devices such as ventilators and protective supplies to meet health care needs caused by the outbreak. (Jabil)
  5. As Floridians’ unemployment claims pass 2 million, positive job trends emerge
    June 18, 2020• Health
    People hold signs during a "Right to Work" rally outside Fort Lauderdale's Elbo Room bar, which remains closed, during the coronavirus pandemic, on June 16, 2020. Across Florida, bars were part of the Phase 2 reopenings that occurred earlier in June, except in three counties in South Florida.
  6. What CEOs make at Tampa Bay’s Top 10 publicly traded companies
    June 18, 2020• Business
    Raymond James Financial chief executive officer Paul Reilly.
  7. Port Tampa Bay okays breaks for tenant hit by pandemic
    June 16, 2020• Business
    The container ship MV Wild Lotus delivered the first shipment of bananas to arrive at Port Tampa Bay in 21 years in early 2018. They were unloaded at the Port Logistics Refrigerated Services cold-storage warehouse. (Port Tampa Bay)
  8. Tampa port lands $20 million grant to expand container berth
    June 16, 2020• Business
    A Cosco container vessel docks at Port Tampa Bay in February.
  9. Hillsborough mortgage broker gets 15 months in condo scam
    June 15, 2020• Business
    Check tampabay.com for the latest breaking news and developments.
  10. Penny Vinik seeks divorce from Tampa Bay Lightning owner Jeff Vinik
    June 12, 2020• Tampa
    Jeff and Penny Vinik greet Margaret Norman in 2016 after announcing a record $2.5 million donation to the Boys and Girls Clubs of Tampa Bay. DIRK SHADD | Times (2016)
  11. Unemployment claims continue to rise in Florida and beyond
    June 11, 2020• Business
    A small group of demonstrators protested the Florida unemployment benefits system on Wednesday at Lake Eola Park in Orlando. Many Florida unemployed workers are still trying to apply for and receive unemployment benefits from since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
  12. Industrious to bring coworking space to St. Petersburg’s tallest office tower
    June 10, 2020• Business
    National coworking real estate company Industrious is coming to three floors at 200 Central in downtown St. Petersburg. [Third Lake Capital]
  13. Fisher Investments opens first east coast office in Tampa
    June 9, 2020• Business
    Fisher Investments' new Tampa office is at the Tampa Bay Park corporate center near Raymond James Stadium.
  14. St. Pete-Clearwater International Airport sees passenger counts rise in May
    June 9, 2020• Business
    Through October, flights taking off or landing at St. Pete-Clearwater International Airport are using the airport's secondary runway That's the one shown here in roughly the 2 o'clock position. The change will take place as a contractor works on a nearly year-long job to repave the airport's main north-south runway. The change means residents in Feather Sound, Pinellas Park, Largo, Seminole, Redington Shores, Redington Beach, and North Redington Beach likely will see — and hear — more flyover traffic. But it comes at a time when flight operations are down because the COVID-19 pandemic has driven down demand for air travel. (Visit St. Pete/Clearwater)
  15. Tampa International Airport delays $906 million in construction
    June 4, 2020• Business
    A lone traveler heads toward the SkyConnect train at Tampa International Airport on May 7. The airport's passenger counts have dropped by as much as 97 percent this spring because of the coronavirus pandemic, which will cost the airport an estimated $31 million this year.
  16. 1.8 million more apply for unemployment benefits, pushing total to 42.6 million
    June 4, 2020• Business
    In this Wednesday, June 3, 2020 photo, Juan Santos stocks shelves at the Presidente Supermarket in the Little Havana neighborhood of Miami. The U.S. government is set to issue its latest report on the layoffs that have left millions unemployed but have steadily slowed as many businesses have begun to reopen and to rehire some laid-off workers. [Wilfredo Lee | Associated Press]
  17. Port Tampa Bay’s diversification is ‘helping us through this pandemic’
    June 4, 2020• Business
    The CMA CGM Dalila, the largest container ship ever to call at Port Tampa Bay, sailed under the Sunshine Skyway bridge on June 12, 2019. The 1,096-foot-long vessel was the first container ship to call at Tampa from the CMA CMG Group, a global shipping company based in Marseilles, France. Port Tampa Bay officials announced in February that the shipper was adding Tampa as a weekly stop on a route that includes calls in China, Singapore, Vietnam and South Korea, then, after passing through the Panama Canal, Houston, Mobile, Ala., New Orleans and Miami. MARTHA ASENCIO-RHINE | Times (2019)
  18. Floridians remain wary about the economy, survey finds
    June 3, 2020• Business
    Barbara Friesl, of Dunedin, center, shops on May 22 at Clearwater's Westfield Countryside Mall where a large image of Tampa Bay Lightning star forward Steven Stamkos anchors the end of a second-floor breezeway.
  19. Changes to Tampa Bay area jet routes wouldn’t worsen noise, study says
    June 1, 2020• Business
    Airplanes are pictured on the tarmac as a Southwest plane takes off behind them at Tampa International Airport on May 7. The Federal Aviation Administration is considering changes to the routes over North Pinellas that westbound flights take after they leave the airport.
  20. Hillsborough business recovery task focusing on hard-hit workers
    May 29, 2020• Business
    Hillsborough County Library Service employee Stephen Duran wears a mask and gloves to protect himself from the coronavirus outbreak as he hands out unemployment paperwork to residents on April 4 at the Jimmie B. Keel Regional Public Library in Tampa. An economic recovery task force is recommending focusing on retraining and support for workers in hard-hit industries like food service, hospitality and retail. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
  21. Growth in remote working helped Tech Data in its first quarter
    May 28, 2020• Business
    Tech Data reported $8.2 billion in global sales for the three months ending April 30.
  22. Tranzact adding 240 insurance sales jobs in Tampa
    May 28, 2020• Business
    Tranzact, which has been in Tampa for a little more than a decade, employs about 250 people who usually work out of an office on W Waters Avenue near the Veterans Expressway. It is looking to hire 240 more. (Google street view)
  23. Nearly 1 in 4 American workers has filed an unemployment claim
    May 28, 2020• Business
    Aurora Ortega picks up an unemployment form at a Miami-Dade County library last month. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
  24. The pandemic took their livelihoods, but not their spirit
    May 28, 2020• Business
    Eric Carrasquillo, 35, the general manager of Butter's Burgers, 777 N Ashley Drive, Tampa, on Tuesday. Butter's Burgers bar and restaurant opened March 13th, just days before it would be forced to close because of the pandemic.