A $160 million real estate deal for a new South Dade Government Center died this week after the administration of Mayor Daniella Levine Cava notified the owner of the Assurant office complex near Cutler Bay that it was backing out of the planned sale. “It is with much consternation that I write to confirm that […]
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A $256M county office complex gets approved in West Dade. Is it a good buy for taxpayers?
To create new government office space in the western suburbs, Miami-Dade County is ready to borrow $256 million for a real estate deal approved Tuesday. The unanimous vote by county commissioners would convert a 1974 office complex originally built for Florida Power and Light into the new West Dade Government Center, a one-stop hub to […]
Dade Phelan survived GOP primary runoff but some fellow Republicans still gunning for him
Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan emerged from Tuesday’s bloody GOP primary runoff with a wafer-thin victory, but the dominant forces in the Republican Party who have been gunning for him for more than a year showed no signs of backing away from their all-out effort to put the Legislature’s lower chamber under new management in […]
House Speaker Dade Phelan wins runoff, surviving challenge by Texas GOP’s far-right forces
Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan, the top electoral target for a far-right faction of Republicans intent on controlling the Legislature, declared victory Tuesday over a well-funded challenger endorsed by Donald Trump and his allies. Phelan defeated former Orange County Republican Party chairman David Covey, who also had the backing of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, Attorney […]
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Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan heads to runoff against Trump-backed GOP primary opponent
House Speaker Dade Phelan was unable to secure his reelection to his Southeast Texas district Tuesday night and will head into a runoff election against a GOP primary challenger backed by former President Donald Trump and Attorney General Ken Paxton, according to unofficial results and both candidates. David Covey, an oil and gas industry consultant and […]
Rick Perry stumps for Speaker Dade Phelan in final days of primary election
VIDOR — Former Gov. Rick Perry was on the campaign trail stumping with the embattled Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan, on Thursday as early voting stretched into its final day. The two have a longstanding relationship that began in the 1990s when Phelan’s family supported Perry’s bid for Texas Agriculture Commissioner as he stumped through […]
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Texas Republican Party censures Speaker Dade Phelan for ‘lack of fidelity’ to GOP principles
The Texas Republican Party on Saturday censured House Speaker Dade Phelan “for lack of fidelity to Republican principles and priorities” in yet another example of intraparty warfare heading into the March primary election in which the embattled leader of the Legislature’s lower chamber is at the center. In a terse news release, the state party said it was […]
Texas man arrested after threatening House Speaker Dade Phelan
The Texas Department of Public Safety arrested an Orange County man for making a terroristic threat earlier this month about Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan in a Facebook post, KFDM/Fox 4 News reported. Special agents with state law enforcement arrested Daniel Troy Leblanc, 45, on Jan. 17 after he wrote a Facebook post referencing the […]
Miami-Dade cop injured in South Dade shootout last week still hospitalized after setback
The Miami-Dade police officers who were struck and injured during a shootout at a South Miami-Dade home last week tried talking the suspected gunman into surrendering as he had his shotgun pointed directly at them for several seconds, according to law enforcement sources. The officers were close enough that one of them was able to […]