The Scoop: Tues. Feb. 18, 2025, Tampa Bay and Florida headlines by WMNF

Share

Tampa Activists United holds President’s Day protest as part of a national day of action

About 300 demonstrators representing a coalition of a dozen local activist groups held a protest yesterday in front of Tampa City Hall.

St. Pete residents suffer high utility bills after 2024 hurricane season

St. Petersburg City Council member Lisset Hanewicz warned about people who have been affected by high utility billing after Hurricane Helene last year on WMNF’s The Skinny.

State representative Berny Jacques files bills to give local government more say on rental homes owned by corporations

A bill filed in the legislature this month would allow local governments to limit where rental homes owned by corporations can be.

Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier released from prison today

It comes weeks after former President Joe Biden commuted his sentence for the 1975 killings of two FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

The Scoop producer Helen (Han) Ly

WMNF anchors Chris Young, Lisa Marzilli, Seán Kinane, Josh Holton
WMNF News Director Seán Kinane
WMNF reporters Chris Young, Josh Holton, Lisa Marzilli, Toni Pham, Joshua Hightower, Kaitlyn Serafin, Faith Montalvo, Noah Vinsky, Helen (Han) Ly
Special thanks to Taylor Lovejoy and Corey Beltran

Theme music, Fresh06, by Stian via archive.org – CC-BY-NC-SA 2.5
The Scoop logo by Robin Milcowitz / Greener Pixels / greenerpixels.com /

Leave a Reply

  • (will not be published)

XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <s> <strike> <strong>

You may also like

Demolition begins on old span of the Howard Frankland Bridge

Listen: The old Howard Frankland Bridge span connecting Hillsborough and...

The Scoop: Fri. July 11, 2025, Tampa Bay and Florida headlines by WMNF

WMNF headlines include proposed worker safety rule, Marines sent to...

Hurricane preparation is now tax-free in Florida

Permanently tax-free items include equipment needed for power outages like...

prison bars
Democrats sue over access to migrant detention center

They want Gov. Ron DeSantis “to provide immediate, unannounced access”...

Ways to listen

WMNF is listener-supported. That means we don't advertise like a commercial station, and we're not part of a university.

Ways to support

WMNF volunteers have fun providing a variety of needed services to keep your community radio station alive and kickin'.

Saturday Bluegrass Show
Saturday Bluegrass Show