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The Scoop WMNF

The Scoop: WMNF’s daily digest of news headlines for Friday, July 7th, 2023

  Calls for stronger supply chains before shortages reach medicine cabinets Prescription drug shortages reached a five-year peak at the end of last year. A Tampa congress member joined medical professionals at a local hospital...

A Conversation With Steve Turner

Before I pressed record, I shared this true story with Steve Turner. Bruce and John of SubPop came to me and said, “You know John Peel, right? Could you send him some of our records?”...

“STAYING THE COURSE” on Morning Energy

It has been said, ” The day you plant the seed is not the day you eat the fruit.  Be patient and stay the course“...Fabienne Frederickson Remaining steadfast and staying the course in the midst of struggles and hardships...
books

Judge backs Florida on school book scrutiny rules

A judge rejected a challenge to Florida Department of Education rules that are part of a move to increase scrutiny of books in schools.
migrants at the U.S. border, American flag, barbed wire

The Biden administration points to the Supreme Court in Florida’s immigration fight

The Biden administration argued that an appeals court should reject a Florida legal challenge to federal immigration policies.
sea temperatures July 2023

Hurricane season forecast update: Above-average activity expected

Researchers at Colorado State University now call for an above-average forecast for tropical cyclone season.

U.S Representative calls for action at local hospital amid nation’s drug shortages

Listen: Prescription drug shortages reached a five-year peak at the end of last year. Now, a Tampa congress member joined medical professionals at a local hospital Thursday to call for change. Congress member Kathy Castor...
Labor unions

Florida’s police union drops its challenge to a new state rule change

The Florida Police Benevolent Association has dropped a challenge to a proposed rule about restrictions on public-employee unions.
The Scoop WMNF

The Scoop: WMNF’s daily digest of news headlines for Wednesday, July 6th, 2023

Offshore regulations to protect the Gulf’s only resident whale species proposed and contested A petition is seeking to protect of one the most endangered whales in the world by creating restrictions near Florida’s west-coast ports....
New College

New College search committee approves new salary range for president

New College of Florida is continuing efforts this summer to become, they say, “one of the top liberal arts colleges in the country.” On Wednesday, the college’s Presidential Search Committee approved a new salary range...
Florida driver license

Targeting immigrants, Florida announces a list of banned driver licenses from other states

Gov. Ron DeSantis announced driver’s licenses from other states that are invalid in Florida under a new law targeting undocumented immigrants.
Jack Latvala

Case alleging that Jack Latvala sexually harassed a former Florida Senate aide returns to the state ethics commission

A case about alleged sexual harassment misconduct by former state Sen. Jack Latvala is headed back to the Florida Commission on Ethics.
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