{"id":388557,"date":"2026-09-02T19:30:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T19:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/388557\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T19:30:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T19:30:25","slug":"the-scoop-wed-sep-2-2026-tampa-bay-and-florida-headlines-by-wmnf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/388557\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scoop: Wed. Sep. 2, 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\/2026\/09\/1788377425_705_The-Scoop-color-2048x2048-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-265911 size-265911 wp-post-image\" alt=\"WMNF The Scoop\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The Florida Board of Education moves to ban undocumented students<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"h-florida-s-primary-election-is-tomorrow\">In June, The Florida State Board of Education created a policy that would prevent undocumented students from enrolling in state public universities. Now, in a meeting this week the Board of Governors could approve it.<\/p>\n<p>Flock obscures data after officers found abusing database<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sarasota Police Officer Cory Waiters searched for his ex\u2019s car over 300 times. We hear from the reporter who broke the story.<\/p>\n<p>Clearwater amends its Local Housing Assistance Plan<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"h-florida-s-primary-election-is-tomorrow\">The Clearwater City Council approved an amendment to the city\u2019s local housing assistance plan. It allows funds to be allocated for construction and relocation assistance for those displaced during mobile park home closing.<\/p>\n<p>Duke Energy releases a St. Pete study using a utility-favored firm<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"h-florida-s-primary-election-is-tomorrow\">The study says a St. Petersburg takeover of the electric grid will cost between $2.75 and $4.1 billion. But City Council member Richie Floyd said the cost of purchasing the grid would not raise taxes. Instead, it would be paid through utility bills, the same way Duke pays for their infrastructure upgrades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Scoop, produced by Jaila Harrigan<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WMNF anchors Juanita Hurtado Hu\u00e9rfano, Valerie Smith, Se\u00e1n Kinane, Lisa Marzilli, Hannah Lau Gleciano, Megan Fair.<br \/>WMNF News Director Se\u00e1n Kinane<br \/>WMNF reporters Valerie Smith, Juanita Hurtado Hu\u00e9rfano, Lisa Marzilli, Se\u00e1n Kinane, Daria Mironova, Megan Fair, Luiza Medeiros de Campos, Hannah Lau Gleciano.<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 Board of Education moves to ban undocumented students In June, The Florida State Board of Education&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1339,3401,46978,7290,1644,1841,16665,30415,135,137,136,416,417],"class_list":["post-388557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-clearwater","tag-duke-energy","tag-flock-cameras","tag-higher-education","tag-housing","tag-immigration","tag-local-government","tag-news-and-public-affairs","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\/388557","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=388557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}