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After nearly three decades of complaints from confused motorists, the Interstate 19 kilometer markers will soon be pulled out of the ground for good. The state transportation board on Tuesday approved $1.5 million to replace the signs on the entire 100-kilometer — or 63-mile — stretch of I-19 from Nogales to Tucson. The funding is part of the federal stimulus package, which provides $521 million to the state for roads and bridges. [SNIP] The interstate starts at the U.S.-Mexico border and is part of the Canamex corridor intended to link Mexico, the U.S. and Canada along a trade route. For...

In a press briefing on President Bush's 2009 fiscal plan Monday morning, White House Budget Director Jim Nussel said "economic growth is the most critical element" in putting the budget together. Perhaps that's one of the reasons folks in Nogales were taken aback when they discovered that $167.2 million for the expansion of the Mariposa Port of Entry, was left out of Bush's equation despite the fact that the port is at the crux of more than $20 billion in annual international trade. The port has been obsolete for more than two decades and Mariposa is the second most troublesome...