TribWeek: Top Texas News for the Week of June 27, 2011

We kept track of the key issues throughout the special session. From budget measures to school finance, health care and airport groping, here's our final rundown of bills that passed, and the ones that died.

Tea Partiers thought this session was their time to shine, after helping to elect and elevate the GOP to supermajority status in the state House. With the session over, they're disappointed some of their pet issues were not resolved

Gov. Rick Perry's position on "sanctuary cities" doesn't play well with Latino voters but his record of job creation and his business-friendly ...

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