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Senate Bill 302 is on the governor\u2019s desk for approval<\/p>\n
The Senate Bill<\/a> may be a win for environmental advocates around Tampa Bay, as it would stop the development of a mega cruise port in Manatee County.<\/p>\n Fort Meade Commission delays vote on data center<\/p>\n Officials delayed the final vote on a proposal to build a massive data center after residents raised concerns about higher electric bills, water usage, and emissions during a Fort Meade City Commission meeting.<\/p>\n Drought worsens across Florida<\/p>\n The drought is one of the worst the state has seen in 50 years, according to Chief Science Officer for Tampa Bay Water, Warren Hogg<\/a>.<\/p>\n Governor Ron DeSantis is behind the domestic terrorism bill<\/p>\n The bill would designate certain organizations as domestic terrorists, and allow for the expulsion of college students who support those movements.<\/p>\n The Democratic National Committee filed a lawsuit requesting records on the possibility of federal troops at polling locations<\/p>\n The lawsuit claims multiple Freedom of Information requests sent in October have not been answered, violating public records law.<\/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.\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":"Senate Bill 302 is on the governor\u2019s desk for approval The Senate Bill may be a win for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[52520,72096,525,1563,87935,16665,7088,30415,135,137,136,416,19123],"class_list":{"0":"post-187287","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-data-centers","9":"tag-domestic-terrorism","10":"tag-drought","11":"tag-environment","12":"tag-foia","13":"tag-local-government","14":"tag-manatee-county","15":"tag-news-and-public-affairs","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\/187287","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=187287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187287\/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=187287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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WMNF reporters Chris Young, Juanita Hurtado Hu\u00e9rfano, Lisa Marzilli, Se\u00e1n Kinane, Leah Burdick, Sofia Caballero, Josh Holton
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