{"id":446250,"date":"2026-11-03T16:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T16:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/446250\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T16:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T16:54:12","slug":"the-scoop-tue-nov-3-2026-tampa-bay-and-florida-headlines-by-wmnf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/446250\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scoop: Tue. Nov. 3, 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\/11\/1793724852_88_The-Scoop-color-2048x2048-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-269431 size-269431 wp-post-image\" alt=\"WMNF The Scoop\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Beef O\u2019Brady\u2019s stop rounds out Republican I-4 corridor campaign<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"h-usf-grad-assistant-union-says-school-won-t-agree-to-raises-stipend-bargainingthe-university-of-south-florida-denied-raises-and-the-stipend-bargaining-its-graduate-assistants-union-requested-the-next-bargaining-session-will-be-open-to-the-public-and-will-take-place-on-usf-s-campus-on-november-13-at-10-a-m\">Gubernatorial candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/byron-donalds-says-hes-not-worried-about-polk-county-voter-turnout-despite-ron-desantis-tweet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Byron Donalds,<\/a> alongside some of the states most prominent Republicans, urged supporters to go vote on Election day. Governor Ron DeSantis said that Republicans need to increase their voter turnout in Polk county. After years of friction, DeSantis finally endorsed Donalds this September \u2014 after the primary election.<\/p>\n<p>Flooding could affect Florida polling locations<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"h-sarasota-students-react-to-district-ai-policy-on-tuesday-the-sarasota-county-school-board-discussed-its-revised-artificial-intelligence-guidelines-the-policy-states-that-ai-should-be-integrated-within-a-traditional-learning-environment-where-critical-thinking-is-still-encouraged-but-during-public-comment-students-noted-the-inconsistencies-in-the-standards-for-ai-use-between-students-and-teachers-claim-the-policy-takes-away-opportunities-for-learning-and-creativity\">Torrential rain along Florida\u2019s central eastern coastline has flooded roads. In some areas, election officials are attempting to find alternative polling places. Monday, Governor Ron DeSantis issued an executive order declaring a state of emergency in multiple Florida counties. Election officials are required to designate and notify voters of new polling sites in areas that were affected. <\/p>\n<p>Applications open for Tampa City Council vacancy<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tampa City Council Member Luis Viera stepped down yesterday to make way for his run for State Legislature. The six remaining members of city council will appoint somone before a new councilor is elected in March. Applications to fill Viera\u2019s seat open today, and close November ninth at noon. <\/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":"Beef O\u2019Brady\u2019s stop rounds out Republican I-4 corridor campaign Gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds, alongside some of the states&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[11591,16665,30415,412,110,135,610,137,136,416,4220,417],"class_list":["post-446250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-2026-election","tag-local-government","tag-news-and-public-affairs","tag-ron-desantis","tag-sports","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-city-council","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\/446250","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=446250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}