Chris Young
Reporter, Producer at WMNF-FM (Tampa, FL)
Producer/reporter/anchor for @WMNF 88.5 FM New stories on air, online, and on The Scoop podcast on Spotify Read about me in the link below!
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1 week ago |
wmnf.org | Chris Young
Listen: Florida’s Commissioner of Agriculture Wilton Simpson tackled the topic of illegal immigration at a non-partisan political forum in Tampa on Friday. He praised the Trump administration’s crackdowns, but still says there’s more the federal government could do to make hiring foreign workers easier.
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1 week ago |
wmnf.org | Chris Young
Listen: Hillsborough County Board of Commissioners voted Wednesday to repeal the County’s Affordable Housing Fund. Supporters of the fund packed the meeting and expressed disappointment after the vote.
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1 week ago |
wmnf.org | Chris Young
Listen: Hundreds gathered for the celebration of life for Tampa City Council member Gwendolyn Henderson in Ybor this Tuesday. This comes a week after Henderson unexpectedly died at 60. Henderson was sworn into the Tampa City Council in 2023 and became Chair of the Community Redevelopment Agency shortly after.
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2 weeks ago |
wmnf.org | Chris Young
Activists are rallying outside the Pinellas County Jail tomorrow to protest the detention of Rosa Patishtan-Gomez, an undocumented mother of two. This rally comes as many are set to rally against deportations and the Trump administration this weekend. The 30-year-old mother of two and undocumented Mexican immigrant was detained on June 5th in Tampa. “She doesn’t have a criminal record. I mean, this is someone who should be a allowed to stay with her children.
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2 weeks ago |
wmnf.org | Chris Young
Listen: According to NPR, Trump administration cuts caused almost 600 jobs to be lost from NOAA’s National Weather Service this year. Now, Ex-NOAA scientists are sounding the alarm on what these and other proposed cuts mean as Florida kicks off a predicted busy hurricane season. John Cortinas is the former deputy assistant administrator for science at NOAA’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research.
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