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Alex Vindman is running for U.S. Senate in Florida<\/p>\n
Retired Lieutenant Colonel Alex Vidman has announced his campaign for the U.S. Senate. He aims to replace Republican Senator Ashley Moody.<\/p>\n
A state Senate committee approves a new student vaccine opt-out for parents<\/p>\n
Yesterday, Republican-sponsored SB 1756, which creates a new path for parents who don\u2019t want their children vaccinated, was narrowly approved by a State Senate committee.<\/p>\n
Democrats criticize the legislative session\u2019s progress<\/p>\n
Week 3 of Florida\u2019s legislative session<\/a> started yesterday.<\/p>\n 500 farms apply for conservation easements in Florida<\/p>\n More farmers and ranchers in Florida have asked for state money to help keep rural property from development.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a record year for ZooTampa\u2019s manatee rescue operations<\/p>\n ZooTampa at Lowry Park had a record-breaking year<\/a> with manatee rescue and rehabilitation.<\/p>\n The state House still hasn\u2019t considered a bill for a Florida Museum of Black History<\/p>\n The bill to create a Florida Museum of Black History drew support from a second State Senate committee, the bill awaits action in the House.<\/p>\n The Scoop: Tampa Bay & Florida headlines by WMNF<\/p>\n The Scoop, produced by Sofia Caballero.<\/p>\n WMNF anchors Se\u00e1n Kinane, Chris Young, Lisa Marzilli, Josh Holton, Randi Zimmerman.\u00a0 Theme music, Fresh06, by Stian via archive.org \u2013 CC-BY-NC-SA 2.5 information from News Service of Florida, the Associated Press and Florida Public Media was used in this report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Vindman is running for U.S. Senate in Florida Retired Lieutenant Colonel Alex Vidman has announced his campaign…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[9316,65526,65527,45336,30415,41235,4214,36512,135,137,136,416,19123],"class_list":{"0":"post-133601","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-black-history","9":"tag-manatee-protection","10":"tag-mandatory-vaccines","11":"tag-national-government","12":"tag-news-and-public-affairs","13":"tag-rural","14":"tag-senate","15":"tag-state-government","16":"tag-tampa","17":"tag-tampa-headlines","18":"tag-tampa-news","19":"tag-the-scoop","20":"tag-wmnf-88-5-fm"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133601","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=133601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133601\/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=133601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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