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Ryan RayDecember 16, 2015

The Pensacola Police Department announced they have begun using an upgraded radio communications system Tuesday. The new Motorola Solutions ASTRO 25 platform allows for greater interoperability or connection between different divisions and systems, the department said in a release. Pensacola law enforcement also joined forces with Motorola and vendor CES Team One to update their dispatch […]

Ryan RayDecember 16, 2015

A trio of state appeals court judges on Wednesday overturned a lower court’s decision in the case against an 11-year-old boy who accidentally set fire to his father’s shed in 2014. In an opinion penned by Judge Clayton Roberts, the court found a motion to dismiss the case in Duval Circuit Court should have been granted, as […]

Ryan RayDecember 16, 2015

Democratic hopeful Susannah Randolph scored a major endorsement in her bid for Congress, announcing the support of South Florida U.S. Rep. Lois Frankel on Wednesday. Randolph, who is seeking to succeed her former boss U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson in the Orlando-based 9th Congressional District, trumpeted the move just days after Progressive Caucus Co-Founder U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison also gave her campaign his stamp of […]

Ryan RayDecember 15, 2015

U.S. Rep. Gwen Graham announced what a spokesman called a “huge district event” Tuesday: The freshman congresswoman will tour more than a dozen farms in her Panhandle district to highlight agricultural issues. Graham’s “North Florida Farm Tour” will make stops in all 14 counties in her 2nd Congressional District, which runs from Madison to Bay counties in […]

Ryan RayDecember 14, 2015

George Gainer isn’t slowing down his campaign for state Senate against Rep. Matt Gaetz just because Sen. Jack Latvala – who recruited him to run in the Panhandle Senate District 1 seat – recently gave up the ghost in his bid for Senate President. Gainer, a longtime Bay County Commissioner with deep roots in Northwest Florida, played on those origins […]

Ryan RayDecember 14, 2015

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Strategist and communications consultant Kevin Cate just released his 2015 online holiday greeting Monday morning, and we get the feeling supporters of Donald Trump‘s 2016 bid for the White House won’t be watching it around the Christmas ham. CateComm’s new video asks whether Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer – or any other red-state hero – can “save” the GOP […]

Ryan RayDecember 14, 2015

Recent terrorist attacks in Paris and elsewhere have shifted the focus of nearly all federal campaigns and U.S. Rep. David Jolly‘s bid for the Senate seat left vacant by Marco Rubio is no exception. Jolly ripped President Barack Obama for a perceived lack of strong leadership in a new web ad released Monday, called “Securing Our Homeland.” The ad, sent in an email […]

Ryan RayDecember 11, 2015

The Sarasota GOP is beginning to worry about Democrat Edward James III‘s challenge to Rep. Ray Pilon, according to a recent fundraising appeal sent to local Republicans. The email, penned by county party chairman and RPOF vice chairman Joe Gruters, said James’ so-far prodigious fundraising efforts pose a serious challenge to Republicans’ dominance in the region’s legislative districts. […]

Ryan RayDecember 11, 2015

Former writer for the Florida Squeeze and other liberal blogs Dave Trotter announced his candidacy to challenge Rep. Eric Eisnaugle for House District 44, in the Orlando area on Wednesday. Trotter made the quixotic announcement from Montreal – “(yes, that Montréal, located in Canada, a foreign country)” he added – in an attempt to highlight perceived problems with the […]

Ryan RayDecember 10, 2015

Even campaigning half as much as his rivals, Donald Trump is drowning them out in an echo chamber of insults and charged pronouncements that have taken over the presidential campaign. Frustrated GOP candidates trekking across Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina are struggling to be heard. All the while, some Republican officials worry the intense […]

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Pensacola Police Dept. announces upgraded communications system

1st DCA overturns state prosecutors’ arson case against 11-year-old

Lois Frankel endorses Susannah Randolph for Congress in CD 9

Gwen Graham announces “North Florida Farm Tour” next month

George Gainer goes local in latest TV ad in SD 1

Kevin Cate’s 2015 holiday greeting brought to you by “misfit” Donald Trump

Email insights: David Jolly rips administration on national security

Email insights: Sarasota GOP: Democrat Edward James a “major threat” in HD 72

Montreal resident Dave Trotter announces bid in HD 44, hopes to poke Florida Democrats

Donald Trump’s knack for controversy drowning out his rivals