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Paris and Lamar County are still in the loop as the Texas Department of Transportation proceeds toward a new 800-mile-long route to more efficiently move traffic from Mexico to Oklahoma, the project manager for the so-called Trans-Texas Corridor says. TxDOT officials were at Paris Junior College from 5 to 8 p.m. Monday for the second time in four months to listen to concerns about Gov. Rick Perry’s pet project. The meeting was one of 47 being held from the Rio Grande to the Red River from Feb. 7 to Feb. 24 in North Texas, Feb. 10 through March 10 in...

Making tacks By Kathy Williams Herald Democrat Editor's note: This is the first in an occasional series on the Trans-Texas Corridor and how it will affect Texoma drivers. State officials held public hearings in Sherman and Gainesville this week on proposed paths of the Trans-Texas Corridor. The Corridor is a futuristic infrastructure promoters of the concept say will move people, freight and utilities as efficiently, safely and quickly as possible. Texas Gov. Rick Perry introduced the concept in January 2002, estimating its total cost at $145.2 billion to $183.5 billion. The Texas Department of Transportation took the concept and developed...