TribBlog: Road Warriors
Introducing the House Select Committee on Transportation Funding. Full Story
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Primary Color: HD-98
State Rep. Vicki Truitt, R-Southlake, has won and won easily since wresting the district from a GOP incumbent in a 1998 runoff. But this year is different. She'll face three opponents and voters who might be in an anti-incumbent mood. Full Story
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TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
Thevenot on the abysmally low community college graduation rate and higher ed's coming budgetary winter. Ramshaw on Terri Hodge's guilty plea and hasty exit. Grissom on the Department of Public Safety's use of dreaded federal stimulus funds to plug a hole in the state's border security budget. Hu on the first of the intraparty face-offs in our Primary Color series. Ramsey and Stiles on the congressional candidates with the most money on hand. Ramsey on whether Farouk Shami's accent and name are an obstacle to his election. Aguilar on the fever-tick epidemic overwhelming South Texas. Rapoport on TxDOT's hard road and the State Board of Education's lack of finance expertise. Philpott on how Barack Obama's budget will impact Texas. M. Smith on whether lawyers giving to judges is a good thing. Hamilton on the latest transportation innovations on the drawing board. The best of our best from February 1 to 5, 2010. Full Story
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Interview with Bill Meadows
Transportation Commissioner Bill Meadows talks about what the Texas Department of Transportation needs to do to repair relations with the State Legislature. Full Story
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A Hard Road
Lawmakers are still perturbed at TxDOT, but the state's transportation agency is trying to do better. The first step, says one commissioner: Figure out how to meet the transportation needs of Texas citizens — which it's not doing. Full Story
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Up in the Air
Feeling blue over paltry federal funding for high-speed rail? Forget about it. Two Austin visionaries are already looking ahead to the next transportation innovations. Full Story
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The Brief: January 25, 2010
Is Texas building a highway to nowhere? No. But Texas legislators like their pork barrel transportation spending just as much as their Alaskan counterparts, apparently. Full Story
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TribBlog: Avoid These Roads
This week, The Daily Beast released its list of the 75 worst commutes in the country. Is yours on it? Full Story
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HuTube: The KBH "Roads" Ad Check
An analysis of the claims in Team Kay's latest television ad includes a true claim and a distortion, according to Dallas television station WFAA-TV. Full Story
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Ads Infinitum: Hutchison Releases "Hook'Em" Ad
A burnt-orange view of "Roads." Full Story
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Ads Infinitum: KBH's "Roads" TV Spot
Team Kay is on the television airwaves this week with an ad hitting Governor Rick Perry on transportation policy. Full Story
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2010: On the Road Again
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison has laid out her vision for the future of transportation in Texas. Full Story
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TribBlog: Losing Traction
Texas highways are efficient, unless you're in a car. Full Story
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Keep On Trucking
Texas has the worst rates of cargo and heavy equipment theft in the country. Yet while criminals are raking in billions of dollars each year, the state has never had an organized system to address the problem. Full Story
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HuTube: Red Light Cam Story Near You
NBC-5 in Dallas used our data application for a story on red-light cameras. Full Story
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On the Records: A View Behind the Cameras
How we built the red-light camera app. Download the data and build your own — or embed ours as an iframe. Full Story
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TribBlog: Rick Perry as Chuck Norris in the Twittersphere
He can "can blow bubbles with beef jerky"? Full Story
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HuTube: The Transportation Funding Quagmire
Governor Rick Perry admits the state needs more money to pay for new roads. But he doesn't agree with the Texas Senate Transportation Committee Chairman on how to pay for them. Full Story
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