{"id":351147,"date":"2026-07-24T15:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T15:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/351147\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T15:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T15:05:09","slug":"the-scoop-fri-july-24-2026-tampa-bay-and-florida-headlines-by-wmnf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/351147\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scoop: Fri. July 24, 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-263955 size-263955 wp-post-image\" alt=\"WMNF The Scoop\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Tampa City Council blocks a land-use change for a new Rays stadium<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rays CEO Ken Babby told the Tampa Bay Times that the project can proceed without a land-use vote.<\/p>\n<p>The Cemetery Society wants Tampa to reject the rezoning of land near a cemetery<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Showmen\u2019s Rest proposed to rezone a parcel of a cemetery north of downtown. The company wants to build 15 homes there. <\/p>\n<p>New Port Richey approves extending a lease for a health clinic for seniors and low-income residents<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The clinic offers free primary care, physical exams, and disease management through the efforts of volunteer and retired medical professionals. <\/p>\n<p>Opposition to Florida\u2019s property tax amendment isn\u2019t raising much money<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three political committees that formed in opposition to a November ballot measure to raise the homestead property tax exemption in Florida have collectively raised less than $30,000 since the start of June.<\/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, Hannah Lau Gleciano, Megan Fair.<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, Hannah Lau Gleciano, 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 the News Service of Florida, the Associated Press, and Florida Public Media was used in this report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tampa City Council blocks a land-use change for a new Rays stadium Rays CEO Ken Babby told the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[17724,2152,740,2715,28,571,6584,1644,3741,16665,14931,30415,8191,29208,29908,36512,65059,135,610,137,136],"class_list":["post-351147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-cemetery","tag-development","tag-economy","tag-elections","tag-florida","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-housing","tag-infrastructure","tag-local-government","tag-new-port-richey","tag-news-and-public-affairs","tag-property-tax","tag-rays-stadium","tag-rezoning","tag-state-government","tag-state-politics","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-city-council","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351147","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=351147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351147\/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=351147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}