Texas: Castro eyes 2020 run. Former San Antonio mayor and housing secretary under the Obama administration Julian Castro has formed a presidential exploratory committee, making him one of the first to semi-officially throw his hat in the ring for the 2020 Democratic primary. Over two dozen potential candidates have been floated for the race, which has no clear frontrunners at the moment, including Castro’s fellow Texan Beto O’Rourke. Florida: Goodbye Rays? MLB’s Tampa Bay Rays may be headed out of the state, after St. Petersburg officials have been unable to drum up enough support to find money for a new stadium. While many local leaders want the team to stay, public opinion doesn’t appear to be on their side, and the team, which plays in a dump of a stadium and draws some of the worst attendance in baseball, may see its days numbered. Georgia: Atlanta scores Fortune 500 company. Transportation giant Norfolk Southern announced this week that it will be moving its corporate HQ to Atlanta, bringing over 800 top level employees and spending more than half a billion dollars on a new office building in Midtown. Governor Nathan Deal and Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms spoke glowingly of the decision, praising their economic development teams for landing yet another major company that was looking to relocate.
