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Originally published on April 18, 2021 5:03 am
The gaming empire Las Vegas Sands is launching a multimillion-dollar advertising blitz to build support for its campaign to bring casinos to Texas.
The company will begin airing TV and radio ads Thursday in the state s biggest markets, according to an announcement first shared with The Texas Tribune. The news of the ads came the same day that a Texas House committee reviewed proposals to expand gambling in the state, including one being backed by Las Vegas Sands.
The ads tell Texans that billions of tourism and gambling dollars leave the state every year for neighboring states that allow more gaming.
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LIST: Texas lawmakers tell us what they are doing to fix the state’s electric system
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TEXAS – State lawmakers are pouring through more than 200 proposed bills in Austin that would bring change to Texas’ electricity market. While almost all of the proposed laws focus on requiring power generators to maintain their plants to avoid another massive outage like we saw in the winter freeze, one bill would make wholesale and variable rate electric plans (like the plans sold by Griddy) illegal in Texas.
We asked all of the state representatives and state senators from the greater Houston area the same three questions to find out which lawmakers are working to resolve the issues with Texas’ electric market. Twenty-four lawmakers didn’t answer our questions. You’ll see who didn’t reply at the bottom of this article.
State Rep. Hugh Shine, R-Temple, is co-sponsoring House Bill 1246 â legislation that would shift away from attendance-based funding for public schools.
âThis will be a very important piece of legislation that we will debate in the House and well as the Senate,â Shine said during a meeting hosted by the Belton Area Chamber of Commerce on Monday.
During the meeting, Shine invited state Rep. Gina Hinjosa, D-Austin, to discuss the legislation. Hinojosa, a former president for the Austin Independent School Districtâs board of trustees, began developing HB 1246 after noticing how instruction changed during COVID-19.
âI love working on doing things for kids every day,â Hinojosa said. âRight before session, I grabbed together all of the best minds that I know on public education ⦠and asked them what we should be looking at post-pandemic.â