{"id":409362,"date":"2026-09-24T15:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T15:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/409362\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T15:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T15:48:11","slug":"the-scoop-thu-sep-24-2026-tampa-bay-and-florida-headlines-by-wmnf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/409362\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scoop: Thu. Sep. 24, 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\/1790264891_871_The-Scoop-color-2048x2048-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-267182 size-267182 wp-post-image\" alt=\"WMNF The Scoop\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Save Our Streets Campaign secures close to 200,000 dollars in funding from the St. Pete City Council<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"h-florida-s-primary-election-is-tomorrow\">Advocates for the campaign explained the proposal aims to reduce gun violence and make communities safer. While the campaign closed on nearly $200,000, the original proposal requested $1.1 million to fund youth programs and community development. <\/p>\n<p>One of Florida\u2019s great snorkeling and diving sites is being threatened by development<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Developers have proposed a campaign to build a 25-story condominium and marina in a vacant lot next to popular snorkeling spot, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/snorkelers-divers-fight-back-proposed-development-palm-beach-county\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/snorkelers-divers-fight-back-proposed-development-palm-beach-county\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Heron Bridge<\/a>. As a result, a petition has been started by citizens and local businesses that do not want development to continue. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"h-florida-s-primary-election-is-tomorrow\">Campus demoliton is scheduled as soon as December as part of the Tampa Bay Rays $2.3 billion ballpark project. Community members claim the demolition would remove public infrastructure without replacement plans in place.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Scoop, produced by Kayleigh Fuller<\/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":"Save Our Streets Campaign secures close to 200,000 dollars in funding from the St. Pete City Council Advocates&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2152,11286,30415,121580,202,204,203,199,201,200,416,417],"class_list":["post-409362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-development","tag-hillsborough-community-college","tag-news-and-public-affairs","tag-snorkeling","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-the-scoop","tag-wmnf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409362","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=409362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}