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Texas politicians who support toll roads won't have Sal Costello to kick them around anymore. Costello and his family moved to a small town in Southern Illinois this summer. He announced it on his blog Sunday, quietly, an adverb seldom associated with Costello in the past. Costello, if you're new around here or have forgotten, was a Southwest Austin graphics designer who in 2004 made a warp-speed trip from obscurity to notoriety after politicians pushed through a plan to build seven more toll roads. The plan included putting tolls on three roads that were already under construction using nothing but...

In many ways, Terri Hall was on a collision course with Texas toll road policies long before she and her family loaded up their van and drove from California to the Hill Country three years ago. A lifetime of volunteering, a hunger for staying on top of politics, and strong religious and moral convictions helped hone Hall's activist instincts. Her brains, drive, superb speaking skills, engaging personality and wholesome good looks — noted by friends and enemies alike — make Hall especially effective. They help explain why this 37-year-old mother of six is a leading force in a populist assault...

Get ready. TTC-35 is coming. Though Michael Behrens wouldn't use those words, not exactly, and he'd probably cringe to realize it, that's the impression he left at the end of an hour and a half of questioning Thursday. "Something is going to have to be built somewhere," the executive director of the Texas Department of Transportation said after meeting in Cameron with a group of reporters from several rural newspapers. There was touch of resignation in his voice when he said it. The Trans Texas Corridor is a proposed multi-lane transportation network designed to carry passenger, freight, rail and utilities....

The massive Trans-Texas Corridor highway project is supposed to be a solution for crowded highways, but some Texans say it comes at a high cost to them. Hundreds of protestors gathered at the capitol in Austin Tuesday to push for a bill that would delay action on the corridor for two years. Protestors came from all across the state carrying signs and voicing their opposition to the Trans-Texas Corridor. David Stall of Fayetville said, “This is a volatile issue. It's been pushed on the public without input, without discussion, without open debate." Margaret Green of Buckholts said, "The way they're...

CorridorWatch.org MEMBER BULLETIN - May 25, 2005 PLEASE TAKE 3-MINUTES TO SEND A MESSAGE The Austin Toll Party organization has put a quick and easy e-mail letter on their website. Using the fill-in-the-blank web page form will send the Governor, Chairman Krusee and over 200 other elected state officials your opposition to the Trans-Texas Corridor and support for HB-3363. Be sure to add your own objections and concerns in the box titled additional comments. CLICK ON THIS LINK: http://www.austintollparty.com DO NOT WAIT - DO IT RIGHT NOW ! ====== RALLY AT THE CAPITOL - TUESDAY, MAY 3, 2005 - 10:00AM...