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  • Brady Urges Removal Of I-69 From TTC

    06/07/2008 4:43:11 PM PDT · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 8 replies · 131+ views
    KBTX.com ^ | June 6, 2008 | KBTX
    WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Congressman Kevin Brady lead a group of nine Texas lawmakers on Friday, from both political parties, in urging the Texas Department of Transportation to remove the Interstate 69 project from the controversial Trans-Texas Corridor and return it to its original route which brings existing highways U.S. 59, U.S. 281 and U.S 77 up to interstate standards. In a letter to Deirdre Delisi, the new chair of the Texas Transportation Commission, the lawmakers maintain that "public support for the original I-69 project - which focused on bringing existing highways up to interstate standards and existed long before...
  • DPS withholding video of Mike Krusee's arrest

    05/23/2008 11:00:08 AM PDT · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 19 replies · 232+ views
    KXAN.com ^ | May 22, 2008 | KXAN.com
    The Texas Department of Public Safety is withholding trooper dashboard camera video taken during the arrest of Texas representative Mike Krusee. Using the Texas Public Information Act, KXAN requested the video after the state lawmaker from Williamson County was arrested for DWI earlier this month. A state trooper pulled him over after he noticed him driving erratically in northwest Austin. The license plate on his vehicle also had expired last December. Elected state officials all have personalized license plates. Therefore, the trooper would have known he was pulling over a state official before asking for identification. A spokeswoman for the...
  • Diplomacy key for transportation chair

    05/19/2008 7:42:53 AM PDT · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 11 replies · 199+ views
    Houston Chronicle ^ | May 18, 2008 | Peggy Fikac
    AUSTIN — Deirdre Delisi once aspired to be a diplomat, and Gov. Rick Perry may have finally granted her wish. As head of the Texas Transportation Commission, Perry's former chief of staff will test her diplomatic skills in an emotion-filled arena in which a state senator has already called her a "political hack." In an early sign of her peacemaking potential, the 35-year-old Delisi scheduled one of her first meetings as chair with that senator, Transportation and Homeland Security Committee Chairman John Carona, R-Dallas. "I was left with the impression that she genuinely wants a new and fresh start for...