John C. Moritz
Chief Political Reporter at Austin American-Statesman
Chief Political Reporter for the Austin American-Statesman, and still part of the USA TODAY Network.
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3 days ago |
statesman.com | John C. Moritz
The executive director of the embattled Texas Lottery Commission resigned his post Monday after a tumultuous one-year run as the leader of the state's retail gambling enterprise that brings $2 billion a year to the treasury. Ryan Mindell's departure was officially announced without comment by the lottery.
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1 week ago |
statesman.com | John C. Moritz
Show Caption Hide Caption Mega Millions: Big changes coming to lotteryOfficials with the lottery drawing say prices for a Mega Millions ticket will be going up, but they also say the tradeoff for the higher prices will be larger jackpots. The budget for the Texas Lottery Commission, which brings about $2 billion a year to the state treasury, has been reduced to zero in the 2026-27 spending plan the Texas House approved last week.
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1 week ago |
statesman.com | John C. Moritz |Bayliss Wagner |Keri Heath
The Texas House early Friday morning passed its version of the state's biennial budget, which would allocate $4 billion more for public education and an additional $1 billion for health and human services compared with the Senate's spending plan. Totaling $333.7 billion, and including more than $50 billion in property tax relief, the House budget proposal would allocate about $4.4 billion more than lawmakers appropriated in 2023.
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2 weeks ago |
statesman.com | John C. Moritz
One day after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced he will challenge U.S. Sen. John Cornyn in next year's Republican primary, the four-term senator came out with a bare-knuckled attack, calling his rival "a con man and a fraud.""Obviously, Mr. Paxton has a checkered background," Cornyn told reporters Wednesday in Washington during an impromptu recorded interview. "And I think the people of Texas know that.
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2 weeks ago |
oklahoman.com | John C. Moritz
As a self-described "scrappy underdog," Kendall Scudder appears well-suited to the job he was awarded just over a week ago — chair of the perennially out-of-power Texas Democratic Party. And anyone who thinks of modern Democrats, from Texas or anywhere else, as a collection of elitists or urban snobs would likely not be referring to the 35-year-old Scudder.
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RT @RenzoDowney: Next stop, 2015 and 5:40am #txlege https://t.co/0nB7CGyOlF
Some of House budget night bitter-enders on Press Row. @AaronTorres_ @isaacyu_ @EllyDearman @jaspscherer @baylisswagner. Out of the frame but still here are @bradj_TX @MaryEliseCos @RenzoDowney. #txlege https://t.co/dpURyyPBWr
Speaker @Burrows4TX has handed the gavel to Charlie Geren, who reminded the House of the rules of decorum.
The "vacate the chair" motion by @brianeharrison is now before the House. #txlege
