{"id":185694,"date":"2026-03-10T14:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T14:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/185694\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T14:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T14:26:09","slug":"the-scoop-thurs-mar-10-2026-tampa-bay-and-florida-headlines-by-wmnf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/185694\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scoop: Thurs. Mar. 10, 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-254914 size-254914 wp-post-image\" alt=\"WMNF The Scoop\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Election day in Pinellas County<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/gulfport-residents-hear-from-candidates-running-for-city-council-election-wmnf-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Polling <\/a>closes at 7 pm for Gulfport, St. Pete, Indian Rocks Beach, Indian Shores, Kenneth, and Safety Harbor.<\/p>\n<p>Florida Senate approves bill targeting public unions<\/p>\n<p>The general public and both sides of the aisle are pushing back on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/senate-passes-bill-targeting-public-labor-unions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">bill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A protest was  held at Tampa City Hall to commemorate International Women\u2019s Day<\/p>\n<p>Multiple groups came together to celebrate International Women\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p>Elevate Florida has not approved applications<\/p>\n<p>A year after the creation of Elevate Florida, residents are still awaiting their money.<\/p>\n<p>A bill to support domestic violence survivors goes to the Governor\u2019s desk<\/p>\n<p>The Senate and the House unanimously agreed on the bill that increases penalties for repeat offenders.<\/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.\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":"Election day in Pinellas County Polling closes at 7 pm for Gulfport, St. Pete, Indian Rocks Beach, Indian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2715,4215,16665,30415,135,137,136,416,19123],"class_list":{"0":"post-185694","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-elections","9":"tag-florida-senate","10":"tag-local-government","11":"tag-news-and-public-affairs","12":"tag-tampa","13":"tag-tampa-headlines","14":"tag-tampa-news","15":"tag-the-scoop","16":"tag-wmnf-88-5-fm"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185694","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=185694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185694\/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=185694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}