{"id":425749,"date":"2026-10-12T18:21:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T18:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/425749\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T18:21:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T18:21:24","slug":"the-scoop-fri-oct-9-2026-tampa-bay-and-florida-headlines-by-wmnf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/425749\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scoop: Fri. Oct. 9, 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\/1791829284_600_The-Scoop-color-2048x2048-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-268096 size-268096 wp-post-image\" alt=\"WMNF The Scoop\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>OneBlood is calling on Floridians to donate blood before severe weather disrupts collections<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"h-florida-s-primary-election-is-tomorrow\">OneBlood is encouraging Florida residents to donate while conditions remain safe. The storm could force donation centers and mobile blood drives to temporarily suspend operations. It could affect the blood supply for hospitals that rely on daily donations. All blood types are needed, with an emphasis on O-negative, O-positive, and blood platelets.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Polk County commissioners fired CareerSource Polk CEO Stacy Campbell-Domineck after she spent 20 years in the role<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"h-longtime-st-petersburg-home-with-deep-connections-to-the-city-s-arts-and-literary-community-is-officially-a-local-historic-landmarkyesterday-the-st-petersburg-city-council-voted-unanimously-to-designate-the-meinke-house-as-a-local-historical-landmark-the-home-sits-at-the-intersection-of-two-distinct-creative-legacies-with-architect-and-builder-of-the-home-mark-dixon-dodd-s-and-florida-poet-laureate-peter-meinke-and-his-wife-artist-and-illustrator-jeanne-meinke-the-house-exemplifies-the-traditions-of-a-cultural-city-of-the-arts\">Stacy Campbell-Domineck led the county\u2019s workforce development program for 20 years, and it was rated highly for most of that time. In August, CareerSource Florida\u2019s CEO and FloridaCommerce\u2019s Secretary sent a letter to Polk commissioners asking them to fire Campbell-Domineck for alleged mismanagement. They also accused Campbell-Domineck of hosting a fundraiser that promoted \u201cwoke ideologies.\u201d Commissioner Bill Braswell said he didn\u2019t think the commission had grounds to fire her before the end of her contract. The commission voted to terminate Campbell-Domineck 3-2 before unanimously voting to fire her entire board.<\/p>\n<p>This week Pasco County Commissioners considered the installation of solar panels on two reservoirs<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"h-florida-s-primary-election-is-tomorrow\">Pasco County Commissioners considers the installation of Water floating solar panels (SPVs) on two reservoirs, the Boyette and Land O\u2019 Lake\u2019s reservoir. The proposal say the panels would be cost effective, space affective and environmentally beneficial. Though concerns are being raised with the cost of repairs, and hurricane resilience.<\/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":"OneBlood is calling on Floridians to donate blood before severe weather disrupts collections OneBlood is encouraging Florida residents&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[99357,16665,30415,167457,1911,4811,4503,135,137,136,416,166171,417],"class_list":["post-425749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-blood-drive","tag-local-government","tag-news-and-public-affairs","tag-pasco-county-commission","tag-polk-county","tag-solar-panels","tag-storm","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-the-scoop","tag-tropical-storm-isaias","tag-wmnf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425749","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=425749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}