{"id":234278,"date":"2026-04-16T14:18:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T14:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/234278\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T14:18:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T14:18:20","slug":"the-scoop-thurs-apr-16-2026-tampa-bay-and-florida-headlines-by-wmnf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/234278\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scoop: Thurs. Apr. 16, 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-257221 size-257221 wp-post-image\" alt=\"WMNF The Scoop\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>A unanimous vote will bring a hyperscale data center to rural Polk County<\/p>\n<p>This vote was passed despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/fort-meade-commissioners-vote-unanimously-for-hyperscale-data-center\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/plans-for-st-pete-and-pinellas-county-trails\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">resident pushback<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pasco County School District has voted on the student assembly<\/p>\n<p>This will eliminate the student assembly section from the student code of conduct, raising concerns from parents and community members.<\/p>\n<p>Debates on the $2.3 billion Tampa Bay Rays stadium<\/p>\n<p>The debate has escalated after the Hillsborough County commissioner accused the team of misleading officials and the public.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Greenways and Trails Council is discussing \u201cTrail Town\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was held last week in St. Pete to discuss ongoing plans for St. Pete after its \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/plans-for-st-pete-and-pinellas-county-trails\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/plans-for-st-pete-and-pinellas-county-trails\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Trail Town<\/a>\u201d designation in January.<\/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":"A unanimous vote will bring a hyperscale data center to rural Polk County This vote was passed despite&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[16665,30415,1338,1911,199,135,3815,137,136,416,19123],"class_list":{"0":"post-234278","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-local-government","9":"tag-news-and-public-affairs","10":"tag-pasco-county","11":"tag-polk-county","12":"tag-st-petersburg","13":"tag-tampa","14":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","15":"tag-tampa-headlines","16":"tag-tampa-news","17":"tag-the-scoop","18":"tag-wmnf-88-5-fm"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234278","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=234278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234278\/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=234278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}