{"id":211713,"date":"2026-03-30T14:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T14:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/211713\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T14:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T14:30:10","slug":"the-scoop-mon-mar-30-2026-tampa-bay-and-florida-headlines-by-wmnf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/211713\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scoop: Mon. Mar. 30, 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-256171 size-256171 wp-post-image\" alt=\"WMNF The Scoop\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo Kings\u201d demonstration at Gulfport<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people chanted and waved signs on Saturday at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/2000-no-kings-demonstrators-chant-and-wave-signs-in-gulfport\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/2000-no-kings-demonstrators-chant-and-wave-signs-in-gulfport\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">No Kings demonstration in Gulfport<\/a> and several other counties across the Tampa Bay area.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens called the Tampa City Council to pass an affordable energy resolution<\/p>\n<p>Residents and organizers criticized what they called an \u201coverwhelming\u201d rise in utility costs at last week\u2019s meeting, and advocated for the city to reduce costs.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay Rays stadium timeline<\/p>\n<p>The timeline for the new Tampa Bay Rays stadium might be running behind due to public funding conversations and stadium designs that are not yet finalized.<\/p>\n<p>No recount for the Florida Senate District 14 race<\/p>\n<p>The race between Democrat Brian Nathan and Republican Josie Tomkow will not be recounted, as<br \/>Nathan\u2019s victory numbers did not meet the threshold to trigger a machine recount.<\/p>\n<p>New COVID-19 variant reaches U.S.<\/p>\n<p>A new COVID-19 variant known as BA.3.2. appeared in wastewater samples from 25 states, including Florida, and seems to cause mild cold symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>The Scoop: Tampa Bay &amp; Florida headlines by WMNF<\/p>\n<p>The Scoop, produced by Mackenzie Queen.<\/p>\n<p>WMNF anchors Chris Young, Juanita Hurtado Hu\u00e9rfano, Se\u00e1n Kinane, Lisa Marzilli.\u00a0<br \/>WMNF News Director Se\u00e1n Kinane<br \/>WMNF reporters Chris Young, Juanita Hurtado Hu\u00e9rfano, Lisa Marzilli, Se\u00e1n Kinane, Sofia Caballero<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":"\u201cNo Kings\u201d demonstration at Gulfport Thousands of people chanted and waved signs on Saturday at a No Kings&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[11754,96917,30415,3647,36512,135,3815,137,136,416,96918,417],"class_list":{"0":"post-211713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-covid-19","9":"tag-fl-senate-race","10":"tag-news-and-public-affairs","11":"tag-no-kings-protests","12":"tag-state-government","13":"tag-tampa","14":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","15":"tag-tampa-headlines","16":"tag-tampa-news","17":"tag-the-scoop","18":"tag-utility-costs","19":"tag-wmnf-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211713","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=211713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211713\/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=211713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}