Weekly Roundup - August 19, 2022

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This week on The Texan’s Weekly Roundup, the team discusses:

- A poll of registered voters on top statewide races
- ERCOT’s new permanent president and CEO
- The sharp rise in homeschooling last school year
- The Corsicana City Council’s adoption of the no-new-revenue rate
- A judge denying a Texas senator’s request for Uvalde documents
- Tyler County declaring an invasion at the southern border
- Border patrol agents cleared of supposedly whipping illegal immigrants
- San Antonio reducing its police and fire departments’ share of the city budget
- Confusion over how to apply the state’s “critical race theory” ban
- A Texas lawmaker filing challenges against 23 books in the Frisco ISD library
- Texas politicians’ responses to the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act