{"id":361478,"date":"2026-08-03T13:30:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T13:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/361478\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T13:30:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T13:30:29","slug":"the-scoop-mon-aug-3-2026-tampa-bay-and-florida-headlines-by-wmnf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/361478\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scoop: Mon. Aug. 3, 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-264356 size-264356 wp-post-image\" alt=\"WMNF The Scoop\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Hillsborough has two cases of locally-acquired Dengue<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Friday, the Florida Department of Health in Hillsborough County confirmed the cases of the the mosquito-borne illness.<\/p>\n<p>Data center backers are making political contributions in Florida<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Tampa Bay Times reports that tens of millions of dollars have streamed into campaigns from companies that want to build transform vast stretches of rural Florida land into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/tag\/data-centers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">data centers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Early in-person voting begins in Hillsborough and some other counties<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/tag\/2026-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">first day of early in-person voting<\/a> in Hillsborough County for Florida\u2019s primary election.The last day to vote in the primary is August 18.<\/p>\n<p>Indie bookstores are on the rise<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the past 6 years, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/independent-bookstores-find-success-tampa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">independent bookstores have been experiencing a nationwide boom<\/a>. It started after the pandemic as people sought connection and community hubs.<\/p>\n<p>A Tampa native will explore the Pacific<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Erin Winick Anthony will sail near Wake Island as part of a deep ocean exploration team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Scoop, produced by Se\u00e1n Kinane<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WMNF anchors Juanita Hurtado Hu\u00e9rfano, Se\u00e1n Kinane, Lisa Marzilli, Hannah Lau Gleciano, Megan Fair.<br \/>WMNF News Director Se\u00e1n Kinane<br \/>WMNF reporters Juanita Hurtado Hu\u00e9rfano, Lisa Marzilli, Se\u00e1n Kinane, 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":"Hillsborough has two cases of locally-acquired Dengue On Friday, the Florida Department of Health in Hillsborough County confirmed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[47499,52520,147106,2715,139991,16687,30415,554,135,137,136,416,417],"class_list":["post-361478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-2026-elections","tag-data-centers","tag-dengue","tag-elections","tag-independent-bookstores","tag-mosquitoes","tag-news-and-public-affairs","tag-science","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-the-scoop","tag-wmnf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361478","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=361478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361478\/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=361478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}