{"id":85535,"date":"2025-12-16T17:43:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T17:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/85535\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T17:43:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T17:43:11","slug":"the-scoop-tue-dec-16-2025-tampa-bay-and-florida-headlines-by-wmnf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/85535\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scoop: Tue. Dec. 16, 2025 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\/2025\/11\/The-Scoop-color-2048x2048-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-250620 size-250620 wp-post-image\" alt=\"WMNF The Scoop\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Groups sue DeSantis over designation of CAIR as a foreign terrorist organization<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit filed in the Northern District of Florida argues that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/as-obamacare-deadline-arrives-advocates-worry-about-soaring-healthcare-costs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DeSantis has violated the Constitution of the U.S. and exceeded his legal authority in other ways as well<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advocates warn Floridians about rising health insurance costs<\/p>\n<p>WMNF\u2019s Chris Young reports advocacy group Florida Voices for Health held a press conference highlighting the effects the lack of enhanced subsidies may have on the 4.7 million Floridians who get care through the ACA.<\/p>\n<p>A judge will hear arguments over Florida\u2019s new growth plan law, SB 180<\/p>\n<p>The law, signed in June by Governor DeSantis, effectively freezes local land-development regulations and comprehensive plans. Attorneys for state officials argued in two motions that a Leon County Circuit Judge should\u00a0dismiss\u00a0challenges filed by 25 cities and counties, the growth-management group 1000 Friends of Florida, and an Orange County resident.<\/p>\n<p>Mosaic wants a judge to drop a legal battle over phosphogypsum in roads<\/p>\n<p>Mosaic urged the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to dismiss as \u201cmoot\u201d a lawsuit filed by the Center for Biological Diversity\u00a0challenging\u00a0the project because the company has\u00a0completed\u00a0parts of a Polk County road project that include the radioactive byproduct of the phosphate industry.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Cabinet will consider $27 million for conservation easements<\/p>\n<p>Governor Ron DeSantis and the Cabinet will consider the purchase 3 conservation easements intended to keep development off timber and ranch lands. The proposals involve land in Escambia, Okeechobee, and Putnam Counties.<\/p>\n<p>Governor DeSantis and legislative leaders continue looking at the impacts of artificial intelligence on Florida<\/p>\n<p>The discussions come as President Trump moves forward with an executive order that seeks to put the\u00a0federal\u00a0government \u2014 instead of states \u2014 in charge of regulating AI.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/get-the-scoop\/\" class=\"btn -theme-primary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Subscribe to The Scoop<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Scoop: Tampa Bay &amp; Florida headlines by WMNF<\/p>\n<p>The Scoop, produced by Lisa Reuter.<\/p>\n<p>WMNF anchors Se\u00e1n Kinane, Chris Young, Lisa Marzilli, Josh Holton, Randi Zimmerman.\u00a0<br \/>WMNF News Director Se\u00e1n Kinane<br \/>WMNF reporters Chris Young, Lisa Marzilli, Se\u00e1n Kinane, Zoe Sax, Leah Burdick, Josh Holton<br \/>Special thanks to Taylor Lovejoy and Corey Beltran.<\/p>\n<p>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 News Service of Florida, the Associated Press and Florida Public Media was used in this report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Groups sue DeSantis over designation of CAIR as a foreign terrorist organization The lawsuit filed in the Northern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[6696,43267,891,100,30415,46858,412,36512,135,137,136,416,417],"class_list":["post-85535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-aca","tag-cair","tag-conservation","tag-florida-legislature","tag-news-and-public-affairs","tag-phosphogypsum","tag-ron-desantis","tag-state-government","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\/85535","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=85535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}