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Update: Where Will Oxy Land? And Lucid Energy Makes Space In Dallas, While Magnum Oil Tools Founder Works On Downtown Corpus

And in Corpus Christi, Magnum Oil Tools International Limited founder Lynn Frazier is planning to restore a downtown building that was once a headquarters for HEB.

,Frazier, whose company sells tools used in the drilling process to extract oil and gas, said the property was developed in 1953 and has been unoccupied since 1985, with an effort by Orion Drilling to restore the property proving unsuccessful a few years ago….
 

Jennifer Grossenbacher Jones Is New Exec Director of the Texas Sunset Advisory Committee

June 11, 2019

Jennifer Jones Headshot

Texas legislative veteran, UT and Texas State alumna Jennifer Grossenbacher Jones is the new appointment and the first female to head the Texas Sunset Advisory Commission.

She’s been serving as acting director since last September, when Ken Levine retired, and has been working with the committee since 1993….
 

State Budget Certified, Governor Ready to Sign

Comptroller lauds the Legislature for passing education and property tax reforms but notes that long-term liability concerns continue to put downward pressure on the state’s credit rating

 

June 11, 2019

 

The governor’s signature is all that’s needed for the new Texas biennial budget to become law.

Comptroller Glenn Hegar has certified the general appropriations act approved by the legislature — House Bill 1 with more than $250 billion in spending for 2020-21 — and sent it to Governor Greg Abbott‘s desk…..