{"id":305395,"date":"2026-06-12T16:56:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T16:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/305395\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T16:56:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T16:56:16","slug":"the-scoop-fri-june-12-2026-tampa-bay-and-florida-headlines-by-wmnf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/305395\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scoop: Fri. June 12, 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-261501 size-261501 wp-post-image\" alt=\"WMNF The Scoop\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Floridians file a lawsuit against the property tax amendment<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The lawsuit alleges the amendment, which seeks to increase the tax exemption for homestead properties to $150,000 in 2027 and to $250,000 in 2028, would deceive voters. <\/p>\n<p>Hillsborough\u2019s transportation plan no longer includes I-275 widening<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A dozen residents gathered at this week\u2019s Transportation Improvement meeting to speak against I-275 widening. As a result, it was removed from the county\u2019s TIP plan.<\/p>\n<p>South Howard Avenue businesses sue Tampa for records<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They argue the city failed to provide the records requested under Florida\u2019s Public Records Law.<\/p>\n<p>Animal shelters in the region are overcrowded<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Economic constraints, housing issues, and deportations have faced shelters across the region with an overwhelming number of animals.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump is losing support among independents<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Independents have grown increasingly unhappy with President Donald Trump during his second term, although they were among the groups that shifted toward Trump in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Scoop, produced by Maeleigh Fricke<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WMNF anchors Chris Young, Juanita Hurtado Hu\u00e9rfano, Se\u00e1n Kinane, Lisa Marzilli.<br \/>WMNF News Director Se\u00e1n Kinane<br \/>WMNF reporters Chris Young, Juanita Hurtado Hu\u00e9rfano, Lisa Marzilli, Se\u00e1n Kinane, Sofia Caballero, Daria Mironova, Megan Fair, Luiza Medeiros de Campos, Hanna Lau, Joeniyah Carter, Jaelin Diehl.<br \/>Special thanks to Taylor Lovejoy and Corey Beltran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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":"Floridians file a lawsuit against the property tax amendment The lawsuit alleges the amendment, which seeks to increase&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4271,1684,2152,409,2811,629,35546,30415,5242,52119,8191,13811,36512,135,137,136,8527,1798],"class_list":["post-305395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-animal-shelter","tag-animals","tag-development","tag-donald-trump","tag-election","tag-hillsborough","tag-i-275","tag-news-and-public-affairs","tag-president","tag-presidential-politics","tag-property-tax","tag-public-records","tag-state-government","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-taxes","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305395","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=305395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305395\/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=305395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}