{"id":406335,"date":"2026-09-21T16:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T16:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/406335\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T16:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T16:52:10","slug":"the-scoop-mon-sep-21-2026-tampa-bay-and-florida-headlines-by-wmnf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/406335\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scoop: Mon. Sep. 21, 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\/1790009530_308_The-Scoop-color-2048x2048-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-266892 size-266892 wp-post-image\" alt=\"WMNF The Scoop\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Jolly says he will not debate Donalds<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"h-florida-s-primary-election-is-tomorrow\">The Democratic nominee for Florida Governor, David Jolly, rejects any debates with his Republican opponent Byron Donalds. Jolly said he believes that appearing with Donald would not provide healthy grounds for a civil and constructive debate.<\/p>\n<p>Clearwater moves ahead with a Scientology-backed entertainment center<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">EVO, a Texas entertainment center company, plans to build a new Scientology-funded entertainment center in downtown Clearwater. With a busy street in between the facility and parking lot, EVO is pushing for the street to be vacated.<\/p>\n<p>School voucher programs in Florida fall short for for children with disabilities<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"h-florida-s-primary-election-is-tomorrow\">Florida School Choice is the voucher program that aids eligible families with education related expenses. However, some schools don\u2019t have adequate resources to support students with disabilaties.<\/p>\n<p>Many Venezuelan immigrants shun Florida in favor of other states<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Places including Utah, Atlanta and Chicago are becoming hot spots for Venzuelan immigrants, as these areas promise a better quality of life than in Florida, including jobs and housing.<\/p>\n<p>Three major news organizations file a lawsuit against Trump over being denied White House access<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Trump administration barred reporters from CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House, as Trump believed them to be reporting \u201cfake news.\u201d <\/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":"Jolly says he will not debate Donalds The Democratic nominee for Florida Governor, David Jolly, rejects any debates&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116647,1339,36854,113,3291,7206,16665,30415,135,137,136,416,39234,417],"class_list":["post-406335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-church-of-scientology","tag-clearwater","tag-disabilities","tag-education","tag-florida-governor","tag-immigrant","tag-local-government","tag-news-and-public-affairs","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-the-scoop","tag-vouchers","tag-wmnf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406335","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=406335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}