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The House and Senate proposed budgets to defund the \u201cFlorida Forever\u201d conservation program<\/p>\n
The Florida legislature\u2019s proposed budgets could severely restrict or defund Florida Forever<\/a>, one of the state\u2019s land conservation programs.<\/p>\n The Free Senior Health Clinic could close next week<\/p>\n The Free Senior Health Clinic at the Claude Pepper Senior Center could close, due to the center not having a lease agreement for the property or liability insurance.<\/p>\n The Senate approved a bill targeting unions<\/p>\n The bill could become law if the House passes its companion bill this week, and it would require public-sector labor unions to secure at least 50% of the votes of all employees in the bargaining unit to recertify.<\/p>\n Historic Pharmacy closes down<\/p>\n The historic pharmacy on the corner of Manatee Avenue East and Ninth Street East closed last week after more than 130 years in business.<\/p>\n The Scoop: Tampa Bay & Florida headlines by WMNF<\/p>\n The Scoop, produced by Mackenzie Queen<\/p>\n WMNF anchors Chris Young, Juanita Hurtado Hu\u00e9rfano, Se\u00e1n Kinane, 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":"The House and Senate proposed budgets to defund the \u201cFlorida Forever\u201d conservation program The Florida legislature\u2019s proposed budgets…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[891,1563,3290,6584,30415,36299,135,137,136,416,86734,19123],"class_list":{"0":"post-184218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-conservation","9":"tag-environment","10":"tag-florida-forever","11":"tag-health-care","12":"tag-news-and-public-affairs","13":"tag-senior-citizens","14":"tag-tampa","15":"tag-tampa-headlines","16":"tag-tampa-news","17":"tag-the-scoop","18":"tag-union-legislation","19":"tag-wmnf-88-5-fm"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184218","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=184218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184218\/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=184218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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