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“Lasting Resolutions” on Morning Energy

“Making New Year resolutions is one thing. Remaining resolute and seeing them through is quite another.”— Alex Morritt Making New Year’s resolutions is an extremely popular tradition...
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These are some of the best songs and LPs of 2024

My top song of 2024 is Fontaines D.C., Favourite, from their Romance LP. Hurray For the Riff Raff and Waxahatchee also had top LPs.
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Storm Surge: Impacts of the 2024 hurricane season on the Tampa Bay community

Tropical Storm Debby & Hurricanes Helene and Milton. The 2024 hurricane season in Florida had anxiety, destruction, resilience and community.
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The Scoop: Wed. Dec. 4, 2024, Tampa Bay and Florida headlines by WMNF

Chronister withdraws as Trump’s pick to head the DEA President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to run the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Hillsborough County Sheriff, Chad Chronister, withdrew his name from consideration last night according to AP....

SOTD 12/4/24: Dig Your Man by Peter McPoland

The WMNF Song of the Day for December 4, 2024 is Dig Your Man by Peter McPoland. He is playing Crowbar Saturday, December 7.
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Chad Chronister drops out of consideration for Trump’s DEA

Chad Chronister declined the DEA appointment saying he looks "forward to continuing my service as Sheriff of Hillsborough County.”
Citizens Property Insurance

Citizens Property Insurance policies drop below 1 million in Florida

The number of Floridians insured by Citizens Property Insurance is expected to drop to 907,000 by the end of 2024.
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Florida PSC approves a TECO rate increase that’s more than the recommendation of its staff

Brooke Ward, senior Florida organizer of Food & Water Watch, called the increase “a gut punch to struggling community members."

Emissions testing in Florida ended at the turn of the century. One group wants it back

Listen: Florida is one of 21 states that don’t require an emissions test to register a vehicle or renew an existing registration, and one group says that’s a problem. In 2000, former Florida Governor Jeb...
USF Anthropology professor Tom Pluckhahn

USF researcher digs into the question of whether manatees are native to Florida

Manatees are such a part of Florida’s environment it’s easy to think they’ve always been here. But have they? That’s what USF Anthropology professor Tom Pluckhahn and a colleague at George Washington University set out...
Hurricane Milton Trop power trucks

Florida regulators approve about $12 per month increase for FPL customers due to hurricanes

Customers of FPL, Florida’s largest power company, will see a bump of about $12 in monthly bills next year.
2024 hurricane season storm names

The 2024 hurricane season was one of the costliest on record

the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season was one of the costliest in history and was the first with multiple Category 5 hurricanes since 2019.
wild rice food

WMNF airs Finding Manoomin: A Search for the Spirit of Wild Rice

Ojibwe citizen Leah Lemm brings us along on her journey to connect with the sacred nature of wild rice in In Finding Manoomin.

The Scoop for Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024 WMNF’s daily digest of the news headlines

Learn about the latest developments in Florida news, from the appointment of a new DEA administrator to the ongoing discussions about a new Rays ballpark.
A Florida state rep talking inside a radio studio

Michele Rayner will run for Florida Senate in 2026

Michele Rayner, a St. Petersburg Democrat elected to the Florida House in 2022, is seeking to succeed Sen. Darryl Rouson.
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