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stories include...

- texas governor rick perry calls for special legislative session on redistricting

- state attorney general threatens to sue comptroller if budget is not approved

- texan scott mcclellan named new press secretary for w. bush white house

- "slamming" problems accompany deregulation of energy service providers

- houston police cheif bradford and mayor lee brown don't plan to step down

- some houstonians take a "deeper look" at juneteenth by commemorating lives of freedman's town anscestors

- houston group protests in front of french consulate to show opposition to arrest of members of MKO by france

- life of shaka sankofa commemorated this weekend with placement of gravestone

- texas death row inmate with "sleeping lawyer" accepts plea bargain

- Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement on pace to meet or surpass last year's deportation of "criminal aliens"