{"id":438466,"date":"2026-10-26T16:28:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T16:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/438466\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T16:28:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T16:28:15","slug":"the-scoop-mon-oct-26-2026-tampa-bay-and-florida-headlines-by-wmnf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/438466\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scoop: Mon. Oct. 26, 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\/1793032095_416_The-Scoop-color-2048x2048-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-269026 size-269026 wp-post-image\" alt=\"WMNF The Scoop\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Safety Harbor warns about the impact of Florida\u2019s Amendment 3<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Safety Harbor\u2019s city commission is preparing for the potential impact if Florida\u2019s Amendment 3 passes. City manager, Josh Stefanchik, presented his findings at the October 19 \u00a0meeting. He anticipates that the city\u2019s 2029 general fund would be reduced by $3.7 million dollars or over 16%. That could mean the loss of roughly 25 full time city employees.<\/p>\n<p>Lula is re-elected in Brazil<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"h-florida-s-primary-election-is-tomorrow\">Brazil\u2019s leftist president Lula has been re-elected. According to Brazil\u2019s Superior Electoral Court, Lula has secured 51.79% of the votes, a 4.4 million vote victory.<\/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\">Metropolitan Ministries has a mission to serve individuals experienceing homelessness. With the holiday season coming up, the organization is calling on residents and the community for assistance. Only 25 percent of its planned drives are booked. In order to serve the 30,000 families, the drives need to have one million pounds of food, 15 thousand volunteers, and 60 thousand toys.<\/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":"Safety Harbor warns about the impact of Florida\u2019s Amendment 3 Safety Harbor\u2019s city commission is preparing for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[133243,19307,28,16665,19379,30415,171387,8617,135,137,136,416,417],"class_list":["post-438466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-amendment-3","tag-brazil","tag-florida","tag-local-government","tag-metropolitan-ministries","tag-news-and-public-affairs","tag-pacifica-network-news","tag-safety-harbor","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-the-scoop","tag-wmnf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438466","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=438466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}