Former GOP gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina fired up a website that can scoop up small donations for a run for statewide office. It doesn’t say this online, but in an interview she said she is still looking at a race for comptroller of public accounts. That could be a crowded race if enough of the tire-kickers decide to bid. At various times, that list has included Sen. Glenn Hegar, R-Katy; Rep. Harvey Hilderbran, R-Kerrville; former Rep. Raul Torres, R-Corpus Christi, among others, and — don’t forget — the incumbent, Republican Susan Combs. Her speculation about running for lieutenant governor has spurred some of this.

Ed Espinoza takes over as executive director of Progress Texas, replacing Matt Glazer, who started it.

Phil Adams of Bryan is the new chairman of the board of regents at the Texas A&M University System, and that board elected Cliff Thomas of Victoria as vice chairman. Adams owns and operates an eponymous insurance company. Thomas owns an oil company and a chain of convenience stores.

It is apparently the high season for appointments, and Gov. Rick Perry has been busy, naming:

• Veronica Edwards of San Antonio, founder and CEO of InGenesis, to the Texas Lottery Commission.

• Former Rep. Glenn Lewis of Fort Worth, Sarah Money-Arnoni of Houston and Erik Salwen of Houston to the Texas Southern University board of regents. Lewis is a partner at Linebarger, Goggan, Blair and Sampson. Monty-Arnoni is a partner at Monty and Ramirez LLP. Salwen is director of a counseling program at the Dallas Theological Seminary’s Houston campus.

• Eric Gambrell of Highland Park, R. Terrell McCombs of San Antonio, and Thomas Wingate of Mission to the Texas Board of Criminal Justice. Gambrell is a partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld. McCombs is a partner at GC Barnes Group. Wingate is an attorney and a former state district judge.

• Joseph Slovacek of Houston to the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles. He is a senior partner at Hoover Slovacek LLP. The governor tapped John Walker III of Houston, a trucking company exec and a rancher, to chair that board.

• Dallas Barrington of Silsbee, an assistant Hardin County district attorney, to the Juvenile Justice Advisory Board.

• Billy Atkinson Jr. of Sugar Land to chair the Texas Public Finance Authority and named Gerald Alley of Arlington, Walker Moody of Houston and Ruth Corry Schiermeyer of Lubbock to that panel. Atkinson is a CPA. Alley is president of Con-Real Support Group. Moody is a partner at Tudor Pickering Holt & Co. Schiermeyer is an agent with MassMutual Southwest.

• Daniel Wong of Missouri City to chair the Texas Board of Professional Engineers and named Sina Nejad of Beaumont and Kyle Womack of Horseshoe Bay to that panel. All three are engineers.

• Adrian Arriaga of McAllen, Chart Westcott of Dallas and Avis Wukasch of Georgetown to the Texas Real Estate Commission. Arriaga is owner of AAA Real Estate and Investments. Westcott is a lawyer and chairman of the Westcott Foundation. Wukasch is a broker at Keller Williams in Round Rock.

• Cattle rancher Jason Peeler of Floresville to the Evergreen Underground Water Conservation District.

• Sharon Newcomer of Orange to the Sabine River Authority board. She is a former educator.

• Troy Allen of Edcouch, Dario “D.V.” Guerra Jr. and Sonny Hinojosa of Edinburg, Sonia Lambert of San Benito, Lance Neuhaus and Frank “Jo Jo” White of Mercedes, and Joe Pennington of Raymondville to the Rio Grande Regional Water Authority. Allen is general manager of the Delta Lake Irrigation District. Guerra is a retired rancher. Hinojosa is general manager of Hidalgo County irrigation District No. 2. Lambert is general manger of Cameron County Irrigation District No. 2. Neuhaus is president of Neuhaus and Co. Pennington is owner and manager of Pennington Farms. White is general manager of Irrigation District No. 9 for Hidalgo and Cameron counties.

They’re renaming a dorm at Texas A&M-Kingsville for Eduardo and Josefa Lucio, the parents of Sen. Eddie Lucio Jr. and the grandparents of Rep. Eddie Lucio III.