{"id":203958,"date":"2026-03-24T14:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T14:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/203958\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T14:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T14:25:10","slug":"the-scoop-thurs-mar-14-2026-tampa-bay-and-florida-headlines-by-wmnf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/203958\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scoop: Thurs. Mar. 14, 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-255722 size-255722 wp-post-image\" alt=\"WMNF The Scoop\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Last day of voting in Hillsborough County and Polk County<\/p>\n<p>Polls close at 7 pm.<\/p>\n<p>New affordable housing development in downtown Tampa <\/p>\n<p>New developments in downtown will be a mixed-use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/tampa-picks-developer-proposal-for-north-downtown-affordable-housing-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">affordable housing<\/a> community.<\/p>\n<p>University of Tampa assistant professor matches mandible fossil to human ancestor<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Ragni matched the fossil to one of three human ancestors.<\/p>\n<p>SNAP restrictions to begin next month<\/p>\n<p>These restrictions will be placed on sugary foods and drinks, which are meant to improve nutrition, but food banks are saying they will have negative effects.<\/p>\n<p>Circuit judge denies request from AIDS Healthcare Foundation<\/p>\n<p>A Leon County judge denied the request, saying the organization couldn\u2019t prove that patients would face immediate irreparable harm.<\/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":"Last day of voting in Hillsborough County and Polk County Polls close at 7 pm. New affordable housing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1571,1289,30415,414,36512,135,137,136,416,37150,4220,19123],"class_list":["post-203958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-affordable-housing","tag-leon-county","tag-news-and-public-affairs","tag-snap","tag-state-government","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-the-scoop","tag-university-of-tampa","tag-voting","tag-wmnf-88-5-fm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203958","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=203958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203958\/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=203958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}