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January 5, 2024      2:43 PM

People on the Move

A key staffer moves on, agency news, lobby news, and a promotion for a first rate newsman

It’s circling back time, isn’t it?

Calls, emails, texts, and messaging apps are coming back to life as y’all return from the holidays and start digging into what’s been going on while you were unplugged. I also know that some of you were hurt by the fact that the Texas Take podcast took two weeks off during the holidays. Just for you, Jeremy Wallace and I kicked off the new year with a 90-minute special edition you can find right here. Coming up in June, we’ll celebrate 8 years of hosting the number one politics podcast in Texas. Seems like just yesterday they roped me into doing that thing.

Meantime, a new year means new beginnings for some of you. It still seems like the political economy, if you will, has shrunk a bit as some have struggled to find work and career announcements slowed to a trickle. But there are some significant moves to tell you about as we start 2024.

Some of you may remember that People one the Move was born after the 2017 special session when there was a wave of retirements from the lobby. Various players wanted to know which work opportunities had opened up and who was filling the roles that had become available. There was a time when Ross Ramsey did something similar back when he ran Texas Weekly. Before that, the legendary Sam Kinch was the guy for this sort of thing when he founded Texas Weekly in 1984. Now it is well established that the most efficient way to inform the Texas Capitol community about a career move is to have it appear in the pages of Quorum Report. Your part is easy: Just send the career news – it can be about you or someone else – to ksbraddock@gmail.com and use “POTM” in the subject line so I can keep it all straight. Please and thank you.

Here’s the first edition of POTM for 2024.

By Scott Braddock

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