{"id":413680,"date":"2026-09-29T11:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T11:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/413680\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T11:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T11:50:10","slug":"the-scoop-mon-sep-28-2026-tampa-bay-and-florida-headlines-by-wmnf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/413680\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scoop: Mon. Sep. 28, 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\/1790682610_29_The-Scoop-color-2048x2048-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-267406 size-267406 wp-post-image\" alt=\"WMNF The Scoop\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Tampa City Council rejects rezoning proposal near a cemetery<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"h-florida-s-primary-election-is-tomorrow\">The Tampa City Council rejected the rezoning of a parcel adjacent Showmen\u2019s Rest cemetery. The rejected proposal was to build a single-family home on an unmarked lot near the site. There is uncertainty to whether the lot site contains unmarked graves, as a ground penetrating radar survey came up short. However remnants of a burial block marker was found.<\/p>\n<p>A Sierra Club report slams Duke and TECO for slow progress on clean energy<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to a report by the Sierra Club, Tampa electric and Duke Energy are failing to provide reliable clean energy. TECO received a score of two out of a hundred and Duke received a seven on the Sierra Club\u2019s report. The report measured utilities\u2019 ability to meet three main goals: eliminating coal by 2030, not building methane gas plants through 2035, and building clean energy to replace fossil fuels by 2035.<\/p>\n<p>October 7 is International Walk and Roll to School Day<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"h-florida-s-primary-election-is-tomorrow\">On Wednesday, October 7, Tampa will celebrate its 15-year tradition: International Walk and Roll to School Day. It aims to reduce local traffic congestion, and promote safer environments for pedestrians and bicycle routes.<\/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":"Tampa City Council rejects rezoning proposal near a cemetery The Tampa City Council rejected the rezoning of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[17724,3401,16665,30415,23412,135,610,137,136,22355,416,417],"class_list":["post-413680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-cemetery","tag-duke-energy","tag-local-government","tag-news-and-public-affairs","tag-sierra-club","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-city-council","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-teco","tag-the-scoop","tag-wmnf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413680","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=413680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}