Weekly Roundup - September 2, 2022

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

• Austin Mayor Steve Adler’s last State of the City address
• The former Athens mayor facing prison for sending obscene content to what he believed was a 15-year-old girl
• Texas Democrats putting abortion at the center of their campaigns
• 23 Texas Republicans’ failed petition to knock Libertarian candidates off the ballot
• The Port of Corpus Christi’s future as it marks 100 years of service
• Governor Greg Abbott rejecting proposals to ban firearms for adults under 21
• Texas’ plan to spend $85 billion on transportation construction projects
• The State Board of Education scrapping its social studies standards drafts
• Accused MS-13 gang members facing the death sentence
• Border agents in the Rio Grande Valley rescuing people from stash houses