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Listen: Recent laws in Florida that some call hostile towards minorities have caused many organizations to cancel conventions in the state. However, the Tampa Convention Center has seen its busiest summer yet. In nearby Orlando,...
The Scoop: Wed., August 9, 2023 Tampa Bay & Florida headlines by WMNF
Heatwave sets records in Florida From the Panhandle to the Keys, temperature records were either matched or set yesterday afternoon. We’ll chase records again today across the state. Federal employees feel disgraced On a...
The Scoop: Tues., August 8, 2023 Tampa Bay & Florida headlines by WMNF
Wakulla Springs hearing flooded with residents Wakulla Commissioners are pushing back a rezoning hearing to decide the fate of a controversial gas station project near Wakulla Springs to be heard. Public comment concerning the threat...
Foes say new Florida law limiting comp plan lawsuits won’t stop their fight to save springs
Opponents of a proposed gas station near Wakulla Springs say they’re unfazed by a new state law designed to limit lawsuits over comprehensive plan changes.
How to represent yourself in federal civil courts as a Prose.
Florida rural land conservation program draws applicants
More than 180 landowners have applied to a state-funded program designed to keep swaths of rural Florida from development.
Local Black-owned business awarded $3 million for Ybor housing development
Three Tampa Bay Tech alumni are planning to build a new affordable housing development in partnership with the City of Tampa. Their company was selected for a $3 million state grant to help fund a...
City of St. Petersburg seeks public input on development around SunRunner stops
The City of St. Petersburg is seeking public input on plans for transit oriented development near the increasingly busy SunRunner bus line.
Activists at Juneteenth rally demand St. Pete keeps promises to the Black community.
Yesterday community organizers in St. Petersburg gathered to celebrate Juneteenth coming up on Monday, which was made a federal holiday two years ago to celebrate the emancipation of slaves in the United States. Event organizers...
Episode 15, May 30, 2023: Code Enforcement Undergirds Black Reparations-Mentesnot
Mentesnot is an established longtime citizen of Hillsborough County, and property owner continues to advocate and fight to remove fines that have been excessive code enforcement, which put his family property in jeopardy due to...
The Florida budget helps speed 20 highway projects; part of a road in Hernando County will be named for Rush Limbaugh.
A wide-ranging discussion about economic justice, the inequality resulting from the closing and repurposing of Just Elementary School serving predominantly Black communities. Neo-colonialism and the Black petis bourgeois who imitate white racist policies to the...
