{"id":323395,"date":"2026-06-29T15:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T15:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/323395\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T15:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T15:16:11","slug":"the-scoop-mon-june-29-2026-tampa-bay-and-florida-headlines-by-wmnf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/323395\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scoop: Mon. June 29, 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-262459 size-262459 wp-post-image\" alt=\"WMNF The Scoop\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>City motions to potentially buy the last privately-owned parcel on the Marti\/Colon cemetery after public backlash<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Advocates at a recent city council meeting argued that the parcel is home to unmarked graves. City officials said Tampa\u2019s code does not forbid construction atop human remains.<\/p>\n<p>SNAP enrollment on decline after enactment of HR. 1 bill tightening work restrictions<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The decline is leaving many Floridians without reliable access to food. <\/p>\n<p>Governor DeSantis vetoes bill allowing high school students to earn scholarships by volunteering at polling locations<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DeSantis wrote that support from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) could lead to polling locations staffed with poll workers from one political party. The SPLC released a statement emphasizing that the organization is nonpartisan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ruling strips hundreds of thousands of Syrian and Haitian immigrants of protections allowing them to live and work in the country.<\/p>\n<p>KFF Health News analysis shows uninsured patients with gunshot wounds spend fewer days in Florida hospitals than those insured<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The analysis also found uninsured patients make the largest single group treated for firearm injuries. <\/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":"City motions to potentially buy the last privately-owned parcel on the Marti\/Colon cemetery after public backlash Advocates at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[126962,30275,2152,23992,409,6281,5557,8367,67420,571,6584,7206,1841,16665,30415,412,414,36512,4497,135,137,136,31201],"class_list":["post-323395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-civil-liberties","tag-civil-rights","tag-development","tag-disability-rights","tag-donald-trump","tag-governor","tag-guns","tag-haiti","tag-haitians","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-immigrant","tag-immigration","tag-local-government","tag-news-and-public-affairs","tag-ron-desantis","tag-snap","tag-state-government","tag-supreme-court","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-tps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323395","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=323395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323395\/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=323395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}