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Michael Twitty to host a discussion on Southern cuisine and African American culture<\/p>\n
Award-winning author Michael Twitty<\/a> is coming to St. Petersburg tonight to discuss the intersection of Southern cuisine and African American culture.<\/p>\n City of Tampa finalizes investigation into the firing of former deputy chief<\/p>\n The City of Tampa found no evidence of retaliation after former Deputy Chief Ruth Cate filed a complaint with the city\u2019s Human Resources Division, claiming her termination was retaliatory.<\/p>\n Hope Rides expands coverage in Florida<\/p>\n The Hope Rides program<\/a> connects domestic violence survivors with accessible and confidential transportation, and is expanding its reach in the Tampa Bay area.<\/p>\n Congress member calls for an investigation into a road construction company<\/p>\n Congress member Kathy Castor is calling for an investigation into the road-building company Archer Western, over its rate of worker deaths and hiring practices.<\/p>\n The Trump administration proposes to eliminate gender identity protections for federally funded shelters<\/p>\n The Trump administration\u2019s new proposal would eliminate references to \u201cgender\u201d and \u201cgender identity\u201d from regulations within the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.<\/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":"Michael Twitty to host a discussion on Southern cuisine and African American culture Award-winning author Michael Twitty is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[11284,5713,76680,16665,109784,30415,199,135,137,136,416,4945,19123],"class_list":["post-251115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-city-of-tampa","tag-domestic-violence","tag-gender-identity","tag-local-government","tag-michael-twitty","tag-news-and-public-affairs","tag-st-petersburg","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-the-scoop","tag-trump-administration","tag-wmnf-88-5-fm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251115","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=251115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251115\/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=251115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
WMNF News Director Se\u00e1n Kinane
WMNF reporters Chris Young, Juanita Hurtado Hu\u00e9rfano, Lisa Marzilli, Se\u00e1n Kinane, Leah Burdick, Sofia Caballero, Josh Holton
Special thanks to Taylor Lovejoy and Corey Beltran.<\/p>\n
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