The North Texas Tollway Authority board just accepted the Transportation Commission’s deal for building State Highway 161 by a vote of eight to one. The state commissioners offered the deal on Wednesday that allows NTTA to effectively borrow TXDOT’s credit rating in making deals.
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TribBlog: Texas Spends $1.4 Million to Friend Facebook (Updated)
The Texas Enterprise Fund will dole out money to the social networking site for new operations in Austin.
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Transportation
Road Conditions
Sensible people in the Metroplex may have given up long ago on Southwest Parkway and State Highway 161, two huge projects first proposed back in the 1960s. Now they’re toll roads — one incomplete, one not yet started — and the money to build them may finally be available. There is, of course, a catch.
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TribBlog: Road Warriors
Introducing the House Select Committee on Transportation Funding.
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State Government
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.
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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.
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State Government
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.
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Transportation
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.
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Transportation
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.
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Transportation
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.
