{"id":143515,"date":"2026-02-04T16:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T16:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/143515\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T16:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T16:14:10","slug":"the-scoop-tues-feb-4-2026-tampa-bay-and-florida-headlines-by-wmnf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/143515\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scoop: Tues. Feb. 4, 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-253058 size-253058 wp-post-image\" alt=\"WMNF The Scoop\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Data centers bill moves ahead in legislature<\/p>\n<p>Legislation that would address key issues such as electricity and water use from massive data centers continues to move in the Florida Senate.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis endorses Hillsborough College as the site for a new Rays stadium<\/p>\n<p>Ron DeSantis joined Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred in supporting Hillsborough College\u2019s Dale Mabry Campus as a home for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/desantis-supports-potential-new-rays-stadium-in-tampa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Tampa Bay Rays\u2019 stadium<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>St. Pete\u2019s Historic Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church celebrates Black History Month<\/p>\n<p>Historic Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church honored the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/historic-bethel-ame-church-honors-100th-anniversary-of-black-history-month\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">100th year of Black History Month<\/a> during its Sunday service.<\/p>\n<p>A candidate for a Florida Senate special election might not live in the district<\/p>\n<p>Brian Nathan, a candidate in the March 24th special election for Florida Senate District 14, is asking for authorities to investigate whether Josie Tomkow actually lives in her Polk City district.<\/p>\n<p>The Scoop: Tampa Bay &amp; Florida headlines by WMNF<\/p>\n<p>The Scoop, produced by Mackenzie Queen.<\/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":"Data centers bill moves ahead in legislature Legislation that would address key issues such as electricity and water&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[48241,52520,4215,11286,30415,29208,412,36512,135,137,136,416,19123],"class_list":["post-143515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-black-history-month","tag-data-centers","tag-florida-senate","tag-hillsborough-community-college","tag-news-and-public-affairs","tag-rays-stadium","tag-ron-desantis","tag-state-government","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-the-scoop","tag-wmnf-88-5-fm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143515","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=143515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143515\/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=143515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}