{"id":179384,"date":"2026-03-05T15:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/179384\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T15:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:36:10","slug":"the-scoop-thurs-mar-5-2026-tampa-bay-and-florida-headlines-by-wmnf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/179384\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scoop: Thurs. Mar. 5, 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-254737 size-254737 wp-post-image\" alt=\"WMNF The Scoop\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The Southern Poverty Law Center and the CAIR Legal Defense Fund win an injunction<\/p>\n<p>The organizations have won their injunction in a federal lawsuit challenging Governor DeSantis\u2019s executive order targeting CAIR\u2019s Florida chapter.<\/p>\n<p>Florida House passes bills designating groups as domestic terrorist organizations<\/p>\n<p>The 2 republican backed bills passed 81 to 26.<\/p>\n<p>Bills on the House and Senate floors are meant to ban diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in local government<\/p>\n<p>These bills are raising alarm for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/st-petersburg-fort-lauderdale-mayors-speak-out-against-anti-diversity-florida-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">local leaders<\/a> around the state.<\/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 Chris Young, Juanita Hurtado Hu\u00e9rfano, Se\u00e1n Kinane, Lisa Marzilli, Josh Holton, Randi Zimmerman.\u00a0<br \/>WMNF News Director Se\u00e1n Kinane<br \/>WMNF reporters Chris Young, Juanita Hurtado Hu\u00e9rfano, Lisa Marzilli, Se\u00e1n Kinane, Leah Burdick, Sofia Caballero, 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":"The Southern Poverty Law Center and the CAIR Legal Defense Fund win an injunction The organizations have won&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[17378,9129,44434,30415,5495,36512,135,137,136,416,19123],"class_list":{"0":"post-179384","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-cair-florida","9":"tag-florida-house","10":"tag-florida-state-senate","11":"tag-news-and-public-affairs","12":"tag-southern-poverty-law-center","13":"tag-state-government","14":"tag-tampa","15":"tag-tampa-headlines","16":"tag-tampa-news","17":"tag-the-scoop","18":"tag-wmnf-88-5-fm"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179384","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=179384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179384\/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=179384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}