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A measure requiring immigration verification from nonprofits in Manatee County was withdrawn<\/p>\n
A proposed measure in Manatee County requiring nonprofits to verify clients\u2019 immigration status was withdrawn yesterday after the measure received strong opposition from nearly a dozen residents and nonprofit leaders at the county commission meeting.<\/p>\n
Vote on Ray\u2019s stadium proposal gets delayed<\/p>\n
Hillsborough County commissioners delayed a vote on the Tampa Bay Rays\u2019 proposal for a new stadium, demanding more public input and a final proposal that includes updated costs and plans.<\/p>\n
Affordable housing is a top priority for Floridians in and around Sarasota<\/p>\n
Over 1,500 people across Sarasota, Charlotte, and DeSoto Counties were surveyed in the 2025 Regional Scan, and 57 percent identified affordable housing as a top issue<\/a>.<\/p>\n Save the Garden group threatens to sue Clearwater for throwing away ballot signatures<\/p>\n Save the Garden is looking to submit a ballot measure requiring voter approval for the city to transfer downtown public roads, but more than half of the signatures were disqualified, partly due to one member not being registered to vote in Clearwater at the time. The group is now threatening to sue, claiming this to be a minor error that shouldn\u2019t disregard so many signatures.<\/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":"A measure requiring immigration verification from nonprofits in Manatee County was withdrawn A proposed measure in Manatee County…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1571,1339,1841,16665,7088,30415,1718,135,3815,137,136,416,19123],"class_list":{"0":"post-223472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-affordable-housing","9":"tag-clearwater","10":"tag-immigration","11":"tag-local-government","12":"tag-manatee-county","13":"tag-news-and-public-affairs","14":"tag-nonprofit","15":"tag-tampa","16":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","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\/223472","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=223472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223472\/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=223472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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