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South Texas is not only going to get its first interstate - it is also going to get a second and a third. State transportation officials knew one of three southern highways - U.S. Highway 281 in Hidalgo County, U.S. Highway 77 in Cameron County or U.S. Highway 59 in Webb County - would eventually become part of an interstate stretching from the Texas-Mexico border to Texarkana, in the northeast part of the state. Only Webb County is currently served by an interstate. The state's Trans-Texas Corridor plan calls for an Interstate 69 extension linking South Texas to points north,...

C L I F T O N P A R K : Republicans to spurn LWV voter forums GOP chair charges partisanship against well-respected League of Women Voters BY PAM ALLEN Gazette Reporter Town Republican candidates will not participate in Wednesday’s forum sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Saratoga County, claiming the organization is "over-influenced by liberal partisans and activists at the organization’s highest level." Michael Lisuzzo, chairman of the town’s Republican Committee, said the league cannot be considered nonpartisan because its vice president, Susan Burton, is a Democratic Party activist who circulated petitions for the creation of...

San Diego Councilwoman Donna Frye and former Police Chief Jerry Sanders will face questioners under the sponsorship of California Common Cause in a two-hour forum on September 30 hosted by the University of California, San Diego. Co-sponsor of the event is the League of Women Voters of San Diego and the entire proceeding will be televised by UCSD-TV in a production to be repeated numerous times right up to election day, November 8. The debate at UCSD marks the first major engagement between the two candidates of the final election season. A focus of the forum will be the reform...

WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- The League of Women Voters, that venerable group established shortly after women's suffrage was won over 80 years ago, has undergone extraordinary changes in the past three decades. But the public image that persists is one of a "little old ladies' club" that works the polls on Election Day. Some are claiming the group's political agenda is a far cry from that of a middle-of-the-road voter education advocate. A review of the "Where We Stand" section of the League of Women Voters website reveals political goals well beyond that of female voter recruitment. Its comprehensive policy...