{"id":124981,"date":"2026-01-20T15:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T15:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/124981\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T15:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T15:28:10","slug":"the-scoop-tues-jan-20-2026-tampa-bay-and-florida-headlines-by-wmnf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/124981\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scoop: Tues. Jan. 20, 2026 Tampa Bay and Florida headlines by WMNF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2048\" height=\"2048\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/The-Scoop-color-2048x2048-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-252100 size-252100 wp-post-image\" alt=\"WMNF The Scoop\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Florida voters consider property insurance reductions a high priority<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/most-floridians-want-property-insurance-relief-over-property-tax-relief-new-poll-shows\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recent poll<\/a>, most Florida voters consider property insurance reductions a higher priority than property tax reductions.<\/p>\n<p>Protest in St. Petersburg against U.S. involvement with Venezuela<\/p>\n<p>Demonstrators marched in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/progressive-organizations-hosts-hands-off-venezuela-march-in-st-petersburg\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. Petersburg protesting<\/a> U.S. involvement with Venezuela and the recent capture of President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Supreme Court to decide if the Smart &amp; Safe Florida ballot wording is clear<\/p>\n<p>The Smart &amp; Safe Florida political committee argues the proposed ballot initiative in support of recreational-marijuana constitutional amendment meets legal requirements to go before voters. The Florida Supreme Court must decide whether the proposed ballot wording is clear.<\/p>\n<p>The Scoop: Tampa Bay &amp; Florida headlines by WMNF<\/p>\n<p>The Scoop, produced by Sofia Caballero.<\/p>\n<p>WMNF anchors Se\u00e1n Kinane, Chris Young, Lisa Marzilli, Josh Holton, Randi Zimmerman.\u00a0<br \/>WMNF News Director Se\u00e1n Kinane<br \/>WMNF reporters Chris Young, Lisa Marzilli, Se\u00e1n Kinane, Zoe Sax, Julia Ferrara, Leah Burdick, Josh Holton<br \/>Special thanks to Taylor Lovejoy and Corey Beltran.<\/p>\n<p>Theme music, Fresh06, by Stian via archive.org \u2013 CC-BY-NC-SA 2.5<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/jamendo-001084\/02.mp3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/jamendo-001084\/02.mp3<\/a><br \/>The Scoop logo by Robin Milcowitz \/ Greener Pixels \/\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/greenerpixels.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">greenerpixels.com<\/a>\u00a0\/ WMNF<\/p>\n<p>information from News Service of Florida, the Associated Press and Florida Public Media was used in this report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida voters consider property insurance reductions a high priority In a recent poll, most Florida voters consider property&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[62017,5742,30415,202,204,203,199,201,200,8527,416,4390,19123],"class_list":{"0":"post-124981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-legalized-marijuana","9":"tag-national-politics","10":"tag-news-and-public-affairs","11":"tag-st-pete","12":"tag-st-pete-headlines","13":"tag-st-pete-news","14":"tag-st-petersburg","15":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","16":"tag-st-petersburg-news","17":"tag-taxes","18":"tag-the-scoop","19":"tag-venezuela","20":"tag-wmnf-88-5-fm"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}