{"id":399637,"date":"2026-09-14T17:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T17:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/399637\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T17:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T17:48:11","slug":"the-scoop-mon-sep-14-2026-tampa-bay-and-florida-headlines-by-wmnf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/399637\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scoop: Mon. Sep. 14, 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\/1789408091_723_The-Scoop-color-2048x2048-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-266528 size-266528 wp-post-image\" alt=\"WMNF The Scoop\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Sarasota Commissioners unanimously approve a controversial expansion of Palmer Ranch East<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"h-florida-s-primary-election-is-tomorrow\">Sarasota County provided preliminary approval for new housing development in Palmer Ranch East. Supporters say it would improve housing availablity and job opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida PSC votes against weakening a decades-old rule that passes on savings to Florida ratepayers<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Florida\u2019s Public Service Commission voted against an amendment that would have led to increased utility rates for Florida\u2019s residential customers.<\/p>\n<p>Polk County Public Schools unanimously approve an increase in teacher salary<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"h-florida-s-primary-election-is-tomorrow\">Polk Schools will distribute $6.7 million to 2,700 classroom teachers who have worked for 10-plus years. Any remaining funds will be allocated to any remaining non-classroom teachers with that level of experience.<\/p>\n<p>A federal judge freezes President Trump\u2019s attempt to limit mail voting<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The preliminary injunction pauses the president\u2019s attempts to limit mail voting, which could have made it more difficult for many people from voting in the midterm elections.<\/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, 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":"Sarasota Commissioners unanimously approve a controversial expansion of Palmer Ranch East Sarasota County provided preliminary approval for new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2152,16665,30415,50068,16572,413,135,137,136,94053,416,2684,417],"class_list":["post-399637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-development","tag-local-government","tag-news-and-public-affairs","tag-palmer-ranch","tag-public-schools","tag-sarasota","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-teacher-salary","tag-the-scoop","tag-trump","tag-wmnf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399637","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=399637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}