{"id":376625,"date":"2026-08-20T15:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T15:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/376625\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T15:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T15:30:12","slug":"the-scoop-thur-aug-20-2026-tampa-bay-and-florida-headlines-by-wmnf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/376625\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scoop: Thur. Aug. 20, 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-265171 size-265171 wp-post-image\" alt=\"WMNF The Scoop\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The Florida Policy Institute released a report looking at the impact of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/report-states-floridas-disaster-recovery-funding-might-be-at-risk\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/report-states-floridas-disaster-recovery-funding-might-be-at-risk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">proposed cuts to disaster recovery funding<\/a> across the state<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WMNF\u2019s Julia Saad reports those cuts would come from proposed FEMA budget changes \u2013 and the property tax measure on the November ballot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spectrum News is reporting that Hillsborough County Commissioner Ken Hagan that meetings to discuss the deal could be scheduled with the city and county in the coming days. Earlier this week, the team picked AECOM Hunt to develop the new $2.3-billion stadium at the Hillsborough College site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WMNF\u2019s Julia Saad has details.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Scoop, produced by Lisa Reuter<\/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":"The Florida Policy Institute released a report looking at the impact of proposed cuts to disaster recovery funding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[26866,28,13487,10325,4747,30415,36512,135,137,136,151640,416,417],"class_list":["post-376625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-disaster-recovery-funding","tag-florida","tag-florida-policy-institute","tag-freedom-of-speech","tag-fwc","tag-news-and-public-affairs","tag-state-government","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-tb-rays","tag-the-scoop","tag-wmnf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376625","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=376625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376625\/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=376625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}