Central Texas loses the 'Highway Twins'
Krusee, Ogden brought Central Texas transportation money Changes in Legislature cut area's influence on road funding. June 23, 2008 Ben Wear Austin American-Statesman Copyright 2008 As recently as 2003, Central Texas held all the transportation levers at the Legislature and was in a very cozy, very lucrative relationship with the Texas Department of Transportation. No more. In that 2003 session, the chairmen of the transportation committees in both chambers of the Legislature represented Wi read
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By Jim Scarantino Outside Sharpsburg, Md., a stretch of soft grass rolls across a ditch to where corn sways in the wind. The ditch is barely wide enough to allow a truck or a horse-drawn wagon along its bottom. This is Bloody Lane at the Antietam National Battlefield. On October 17, 1862, Union forces under General George B. McClellan attacked Robert E. Lee’s Confederate army across miles of these pastures and cornfields. Lee was on his first invasion of the North. Stonewall Jackson had read
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I visited Gettysburg Battlefield for 3 days last week. What a Beautifully preserved battlefield! It has the look and feel of a beautiful park. The carnage is forgotten, which would really be too much to experience. But we honor the sacrifice in peace and tranquility that this terrible battle gives us. The statuary is magnificent as well. Not to mention the intricate bas relief on numerous monuments. This inspires in contrast to the cloistered art sheltered in museums away from public life that o read
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