David Lyons
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Business writer, South Florida Sun Sentinel, Deerfield Beach; past editor-in-chief, Daily Business Review, Miami; past staff writer, Miami Herald, Miami News.
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Aeromexico returning to Fort Lauderdale with daily nonstops to Mexico City in January
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... After an 18-year hiatus, Aeromexico is returning to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in January with daily nonstop flights to Mexico City. The year-round route, which will take passengers to and from Mexico City’s Benito Juárez International Airport, will start on Jan. 14, 2027, the Broward County Aviation Department announced late Monday.
BermudAir launches service from Fort Lauderdale to Belize, Turks and Caicos
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As promised in June, BermudAir returned to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on Monday with service to Belize in Central America and to the Turks & Caicos. The airline will restart flights from the Broward County airport to Bermuda on Dec. 20, with introductory one-way economy fares starting at $152.
Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show: 50-plus debut vessels, over 130 superyachts and a buyer’s market
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Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show: 50-plus debut vessels, over 130 superyachts and a buyer’s market
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Broward County’s multi-billion dollar marine industry will take center stage this week when the 67th Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show welcomes an expected 100,000 visitors, more than 50 new vessels to the marketplace and 130 superyachts led by the near-football-field-length behemoth Draak, which has a new life in the field of research. The show, which will kick off on Wednesday and run through Sunday, Nov.
Tropic Ocean Airways plans service between Fort Lauderdale and Key West
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Tropic Ocean Airways plans to inaugurate scheduled and private charter service between Key West and Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport the day after Thanksgiving, according to a company statement. The airline’s scheduled flights will start with Thursday through Sunday flights. One-way fares would start at $199. At Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International, the airline uses a Sheltair Aviation terminal west of the main airport terminal.
Autism Therapy Firm Under Federal Investigation
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A fast-growing multi-state autism therapy firm based in Fort Lauderdale has acknowledged that it is under a federal investigation over its billing practices and is “working” with investigators.
Brightline passenger traffic spiked in September amid financial overhaul, creditor takeover
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Less than a month after multiple Brightline affiliates filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, South Florida’s higher-speed train line announced that traffic for September jumped by 18% versus the same month in 2025. Both long-haul traffic to Orlando and short-haul regional ridership in Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties rose along with ticket revenue, the company announced in a ridership report released at the close of business Friday.
Brightline passenger traffic spiked in September amid financial overhaul, creditor takeover
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Less than a month after multiple Brightline affiliates filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, South Florida’s higher-speed train line announced that traffic for September jumped by 18% versus the same month in 2025. Both long-haul traffic to Orlando and short-haul regional ridership in Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties rose along with ticket revenue, the company announced in a ridership report released at the close of business Friday.
JetBlue bringing first class to Fort Lauderdale; Avelo to add Dallas area flights from West Palm Beach
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... JetBlue Airways said Thursday it intends to unveil its first class “BlueFirst” service on more than 30 U.S. domestic routes including flights from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and New York or Boston. Passengers can now book the premium service with limited-time promotional fares as low as $249 one-way. “BlueFirst will officially take flight on Dec.
‘Business is booming:’ Broward welcomed many employers, expansions, Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance says
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... For the Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance, the economic development arm of Broward County, the 2025-2026 fiscal year was boom time filled with the arrivals of relocating companies and the expansion of others, the agency announced at its annual meeting late Wednesday.
Breeze Airways adding flights to northern destinations from Florida
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Discounter Breeze Airways announced Tuesday the addition of three one-stop, no-change-of-plane service from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport to three northern destinations next spring. The carrier said that travelers can now start booking flights to the following cities in Vermont, West Virginia and Upstate New York: Burlington, Vt.: Thursdays and Sundays starting May 27. Charleston, W.Va.: Wednesdays and Saturdays starting May 26.
Breeze Airways adding flights to northern destinations from Orlando, Fort Lauderdale
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Discounter Breeze Airways announced Tuesday the addition of three one-stop, no-change-of-plane service from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport to three northern destinations next spring. The carrier said that travelers can now start booking flights to the following cities in Vermont, West Virginia and Upstate New York: Burlington, Vt.: Thursdays and Sundays starting May 27. Charleston, W.Va.: Wednesdays and Saturdays starting May 26.
Bob Swindell retiring as CEO, president of Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance economic development agency
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Bob Swindell, who for more than two decades helped Broward County become a prime destination for businesses seeking a new home or a landing spot for expansion, is retiring as president and CEO of the Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance in 2027, the agency announced on Tuesday. Under his leadership, the private-public agency oversaw the creation of more than 62,000 jobs and $3.5 billion in private investment in the county.
Autism therapy firm based in Fort Lauderdale under federal investigation over billing practices Original
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A fast-growing multi-state autism therapy firm based in Fort Lauderdale has acknowledged that it is under a federal investigation over its billing practices and is “working” with investigators.
Is data secure when Spirit sells to Google? US lawmakers seek privacy safeguards for ex-workers
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Lawmakers in the U.S. House and Senate on Thursday called on the CEOs of Spirit Airlines and Google to safeguard to the privacy of employees whose information would be included in a planned mass sale of business data from the defunct air carrier to Google. In a letter to Spirit CEO Dave Davis and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, 121 lawmakers led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts, and Rep.
Is data secure when Spirit sells to Google? US lawmakers seek privacy safeguards for ex-workers
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Lawmakers in the U.S. House and Senate on Thursday called on the CEOs of Spirit Airlines and Google to safeguard to the privacy of employees whose information would be included in a planned mass sale of business data from the defunct air carrier to Google. In a letter to Spirit CEO Dave Davis and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, 121 lawmakers led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts, and Rep.
Spirit, Google ensure passenger privacy will be protected in bankruptcy sale of airline’s business data
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Spirit Airlines and Google have installed sufficient measures to safeguard consumer privacy for a proposed $10 million bankruptcy sale of the defunct carrier’s business enterprise data, a court-appointed expert has concluded. In a nine-page report to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, Lucy L.
Leslie’s closing multiple Florida pool supply stores after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Leslie’s Inc., the decades-old national retailer of pool supplies, is shutting 19 stores in Florida after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Houston. The Phoenix-based seller of pool chemicals, maintenance equipment and other products, expects to exit the court-supervised reorganization process early next year with a smaller multi-state footprint and stronger finances.
Leslie’s closing multiple Florida pool supply stores after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Leslie’s Inc., the decades-old national retailer of pool supplies, is shutting 19 stores in Florida after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Houston. The Phoenix-based seller of pool chemicals, maintenance equipment and other products, expects to exit the court-supervised reorganization process early next year with a smaller multi-state footprint and stronger finances.
CareerSource agencies awarded $3.3M to help laid-off Spirit workers find jobs Original
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Terminated Spirit Airlines workers in Broward and Miami-Dade counties received a potential lift Monday after the U.S. Government awarded $3.3 million to a pair of public job search agencies to help the unemployed find work. An estimated 3,200 South Florida area Spirit workers lost their jobs in early May when the Dania Beach-based budget carrier permanently stopped flying after it failed to raise money to exit bankruptcy.
‘Good for all of us:’ Billionaire’s Carnegie Mellon campus will boost growth throughout South Florida Original
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... For people in the highly competitive economic development business, it would seem to be daunting when a billionaire in a neighboring county announces a $2 billion gift to start a college campus for one of the nation’s most prestigious universities — just 16 miles down the road. That’s how development leaders in Broward County could have taken it when Citadel CEO Ken Griffin, in the company of Florida Gov.
Wasserman Schultz finds fewer immigrants detained at Miramar, but encounters ‘unconstitutional torture’
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement received another unannounced visit from U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz at its Miramar facility on Wednesday, and although the congresswoman found fewer immigrants detained there since her last call, she said she found the living conditions there to be almost as abysmal. “This treatment is unconstitutional torture,” she told reporters after taking a tour of the Southwest Broward County operations facility.
Brightline’s quandary: travelers like the rail service, but so far, not enough to overcome its crushing debt
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Judging from the heavy flow of travelers who boarded and disembarked from Brightline trains in downtown Fort Lauderdale on Saturday, it would seem unfathomable that the pioneering higher-speed rail business would file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. For Jodi Hinkle, who was headed for Port Everglades with a friend for a seven-day cruise in the Caribbean, Brightline is a railroad that ought to be serving her hometown of Oklahoma City.
Brightline companies file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, but trains are running as usual from Miami to Orlando Original
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Multiple companies that support Brightline, the higher-speed passenger railroad that serves South and Central Florida, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection early Friday as management acted to ease the pioneering firm’s debt load. But railroad officials quickly announced that Brightline Trains Florida, the railroad’s operating company, is not affected and its trains are continuing to run without interruption through the state.
Report: Debt-heavy Brightline approaches Chapter 11 bankruptcy Original
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Brightline, the higher speed rail line that serves South and Central Florida, is close to filing a Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition in an effort to restructure an estimated $1.1 billion in corporate debt, according to Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the situation.
Sun Sentinel, Florida Bulldog win $75,000 grant to collaborate on public health reporting in Broward
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The South Florida Sun Sentinel and the nonprofit Florida Bulldog have been awarded a $75,000 grant to engage in a reporting collaboration on the state of public health services in Broward County.
South Florida nursing school owner sentenced to 87 months in diploma mill operation Original
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A Broward County nursing school owner was sentenced to 87 months in prison by a Fort Lauderdale federal judge on Tuesday for her role in a scheme to sell bogus diplomas and transcripts to would-be nurses who sought credentials and jobs around the United States. At the end of two weeks of trial in June, Carleen Noreus, 52, of Plantation, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
South Florida’s NextEra Energy, Dominion gain shareholder backing for merger, face months of regulatory questions Original
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Shareholders for South Florida utilities giant NextEra Energy and Dominion Energy of Virginia have voted their respective approvals for a proposed $67 billion merger, but the two companies are looking at roughly a year of regulatory and public questions before the deal closes.
A boy screams, families weep: Children leave South Florida to live with parents deported to Guatemala
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The unrelenting shrieks from a 3-year-old boy pierced the early morning air Friday around a TSA checkpoint at Miami International Airport. From behind a barrier, as other travelers flashed startled looks, siblings burst into tears, knowing it would be a long time before they would again see their little brother, who was bound for Guatemala City with eight other children.
A boy screams, families weep: Children leave South Florida to live with parents deported to Guatemala Original
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The unrelenting shrieks from a 3-year-old boy pierced the early morning air Friday around a TSA checkpoint at Miami International Airport. From behind a barrier, as other travelers flashed startled looks, siblings burst into tears, knowing it would be a long time before they would again see their little brother, who was bound for Guatemala City with eight other children.
Lake Worth Beach approves new PBSO policing contract
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Lake Worth Beach commissioners approved a new law enforcement services agreement with the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office late Tuesday after rejecting a dissenting commissioner’s proposed curbs on how the agency should help federal agents arrest undocumented immigrants. The vote was 3-1 for the three-year deal, which will run through Sept. 30, 2029. The agreement’s term was reduced from a 10-year period envisioned in an earlier draft.
Fort Lauderdale’s T3 FAT Village gets first commercial tenants: A Fortune 500 logistics company and a design firm
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In milestone firsts for Fort Lauderdale’s T3 FAT Village project, the Fortune 500 firm GXO Logistics and the CB Workplace Solutions design firm have become the initial tenants to sign up for office space at the innovative mixed use enclave along Andrews Avenue and south of Sistrunk Boulevard. Based in Greenwich, Connecticut, GXO Logistics is a publicly traded company with a listing on the New York Stock Exchange.
Russian national convicted of illegally exporting aircraft parts from South Florida
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A Russian expatriate living in South Florida has been convicted by a federal jury of illegally exporting nearly $1 million in aircraft parts to his native country in violation of U.S. sanctions triggered by the war in Ukraine. Alexander Mamonov, 62, is listed in court papers as a Hollywood resident who once worked for the Russian national airline Aeroflot.
South Florida job seekers struggle to get hired as migration slows and businesses change course, report finds
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Throughout this year, South Florida’s job market has looked like the victim of a battering ram: more companies filed for bankruptcy than in 2025; many changed business plans and lost contracts; and others were forced to drop untold numbers of immigrant employees after the Trump administration canceled work authorizations for Haitians.
A smaller West Marine exits Chapter 11 bankruptcy with fewer stores, lighter debt load
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... West Marine, the nationally prominent boating supply firm that moved from California to Fort Lauderdale four years ago, has emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy with less debt and a smaller chain of stores. The company will also have fewer employees. Earlier this summer, it notified the state of Florida that 80 staff members at a downtown Fort Lauderdale support center will be laid off by October.
McDonald’s franchises to add more than 1,000 workers in South Florida
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... An association of McDonald’s franchise operators is looking to hire more than 1,000 workers around South Florida at more than 300 restaurants, the group announced Tuesday. The campaign, called “Sip, Sip, Apply,” will run from Aug. 30 through Sept. 5. They will conduct on-the-spot interviews for a variety of full-time and part-time positions at some 317 locations covering an area from Key West to Fort Myers and Miami to Sebastian.
Wife of suspended Palm Beach County clerk resigning from boards as she defends him
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Businesswoman Tracy Caruso, the wife of suspended Palm Beach County Clerk of Courts and Comptroller Mike Caruso, announced Monday she is resigning from several community-oriented boards so she can help her husband defend against criminal charges related to child abuse. Mike Caruso was arrested last week on five felony charges related to the abuse of a young family member and suspended from his job by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Wife of suspended Palm Beach County clerk resigning from boards as she defends him
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Businesswoman Tracy Caruso, the wife of suspended Palm Beach County Clerk of Courts and Comptroller Mike Caruso, announced Monday she is resigning from several community-oriented boards so she can help her husband defend against criminal charges related to child abuse. Mike Caruso was arrested last week on five felony charges and suspended from his job by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Fort Lauderdale airport job fair features over 300 openings from multiple employers
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... On approach to South Florida’s busy tourist season, the Broward County Aviation Department is sponsoring its fifth annual job fair to help employers fill at least 300 vacancies at multiple businesses at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. It’s been a tumultuous year at the airport for hourly wage workers who toil there. The fair, which is scheduled for Friday Aug.
Judge delays $10M sale of Spirit data to Google after attendants raise privacy concerns
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A proposed $10 million sale of a trove of Spirit Airlines data to Google has been delayed by a federal bankruptcy judge after unionized flight attendants raised privacy concerns. The data is among a wide array of assets being sold by the defunct airline, which ceased operations on May 2 and has been winding down its business under the supervision of a U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York.
Judge delays $10M sale of Spirit data to Google after attendants raise privacy concerns
A proposed $10 million sale of a trove of Spirit Airlines data to Google has been delayed by a federal bankruptcy judge after unionized flight attendants raised privacy concerns. The data is among a wide array of assets being sold by the defunct airline, which ceased operations on May 2 and has been winding down its business under the supervision of a U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York.
Judge delays $10M sale of Spirit data to Google after attendants raise privacy concerns
A proposed $10 million sale of a trove of Spirit Airlines data to Google has been delayed by a federal bankruptcy judge after unionized flight attendants raised privacy concerns. The data is among a wide array of assets being sold by the defunct airline, which ceased operations on May 2 and has been winding down its business under the supervision of a U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York.
Judge delays $10M sale of Spirit data to Google after attendants raise privacy concerns
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A proposed $10 million sale of a trove of Spirit Airlines data to Google has been delayed by a federal bankruptcy judge after unionized flight attendants raised privacy concerns. The data is among a wide array of assets being sold by the defunct airline, which ceased operations on May 2 and has been winding down its business under the supervision of a U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York.
Judge delays $10M sale of Spirit data to Google after attendants raise privacy concerns
A proposed $10 million sale of a trove of Spirit Airlines data to Google has been delayed by a federal bankruptcy judge after unionized flight attendants raised privacy concerns. The data is among a wide array of assets being sold by the defunct airline, which ceased operations on May 2 and has been winding down its business under the supervision of a U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York.
Judge delays $10M sale of Spirit data to Google after attendants raise privacy concerns
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A proposed $10 million sale of a trove of Spirit Airlines data to Google has been delayed by a federal bankruptcy judge after unionized flight attendants raised privacy concerns. The data is among a wide array of assets being sold by the defunct airline, which ceased operations on May 2 and has been winding down its business under the supervision of a U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York.
Judge delays $10M sale of Spirit data to Google after attendants raise privacy concerns
A proposed $10 million sale of a trove of Spirit Airlines data to Google has been delayed by a federal bankruptcy judge after unionized flight attendants raised privacy concerns. The data is among a wide array of assets being sold by the defunct airline, which ceased operations on May 2 and has been winding down its business under the supervision of a U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York.
Judge delays $10M sale of Spirit data to Google after attendants raise privacy concerns
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A proposed $10 million sale of a trove of Spirit Airlines data to Google has been delayed by a federal bankruptcy judge after unionized flight attendants raised privacy concerns. The data is among a wide array of assets being sold by the defunct airline, which ceased operations on May 2 and has been winding down its business under the supervision of a U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York.
Judge delays $10M sale of Spirit data to Google after attendants raise privacy concerns
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A proposed $10 million sale of a trove of Spirit Airlines data to Google has been delayed by a federal bankruptcy judge after unionized flight attendants raised privacy concerns. The data is among a wide array of assets being sold by the defunct airline, which ceased operations on May 2 and has been winding down its business under the supervision of a U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York.
Judge delays $10M sale of Spirit data to Google after attendants raise privacy concerns
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A proposed $10 million sale of a trove of Spirit Airlines data to Google has been delayed by a federal bankruptcy judge after unionized flight attendants raised privacy concerns. The data is among a wide array of assets being sold by the defunct airline, which ceased operations on May 2 and has been winding down its business under the supervision of a U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York.
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