{"id":415775,"date":"2026-10-01T14:59:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T14:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/415775\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T14:59:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T14:59:19","slug":"the-scoop-thu-oct-1-2026-tampa-bay-and-florida-headlines-by-wmnf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/415775\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scoop: Thu. Oct. 1, 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\/10\/The-Scoop-color-2048x2048-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-267592 size-267592 wp-post-image\" alt=\"WMNF The Scoop\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The Southern Poverty Law Center is petitioning for an early voting site in South St. Petersburg<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"h-florida-s-primary-election-is-tomorrow\">If St.Pete does not grant an early voting site in Childs Park neighborhood, a third of St. Petes black population will be left without access to an early voting site. Florida laws require early voting sites to be geographically located to provide equal voting opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>Major news publisher McClatchy, laid off 30% of its workforce this month<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Companies like McClatchy have been increasing their reliance on AI to produce news reports. These reports are packed with errors and misinformation to the public. News stories by AI are more likely to focus on celebrity gossip than government affairs. <\/p>\n<p>Rays will face the New York Yankees in the ALD Series that begins Saturday at the Trop!<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"h-florida-s-primary-election-is-tomorrow\">The Yankees swept their Wildcard series with another big win last night against the Boston Red Sox. The second game of the best-of-five ALDS will be Monday in St. Pete.<\/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":"The Southern Poverty Law Center is petitioning for an early voting site in South St. Petersburg If St.Pete&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2872,16665,30415,199,135,3815,137,136,416,4220,417],"class_list":["post-415775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-ai","tag-local-government","tag-news-and-public-affairs","tag-st-petersburg","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-the-scoop","tag-voting","tag-wmnf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415775","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=415775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}