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A Waller County organization opposing a massive highway project is planning two informational meetings to help citizens prepare for upcoming hearings. Citizens for a Better Waller County (CBWC) says it will hold meetings to prepare residents for Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT) hearings in Waller County. The hearings will be to discuss an environmental impact statement on the proposed Trans Texas Corridor’s route that could bring it through Waller, Austin and Washington counties. CBWC’s meetings will be held next Tuesday at the Waller High School cafeteria in Waller and Monday, Feb. 25 at the Brookshire Convention Center in Brookshire. Both...

The following is an issue paper written and researched by Tom and staff. I have pulled and processed the first 2 pages of this 33 page pdf file .. the remaining 31 pages contain 237 specific reductons appropriate to the 1995 timeframe. The document speaks to the nature of an all-consuming behemoth that our state's govt and bureaucracies has become. It also recommends remedies, most if not all, that could still be implemented at even greater savings to the state and its citizens.But will these things happen? Do they have a chance of happening?Remember how addicted folks were to welfare...