TxTeacher
Joined: 13 Jun 2006 Posts: 64
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Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 11:50 am Post subject: Texas Farmers Say No To Superhighway |
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Did Rick Perry even think no one was going to oppose this move??
Houston Chronicle July 20, 2006, 2:49PM
Farmers furious at Texas governor over proposed superhighway
By KELLEY SHANNON
Associated Press
HILLSBORO, Texas — Leroy Walters has survived many a threat on the farm that has been in his family for 120 years — droughts, hailstorms, tornadoes, grasshopper attacks.
But now he sees a manmade danger on the horizon: a colossal, 600-mile superhighway that will plow clear across the state of Texas, perhaps cutting through Walters' sorghum and corn fields, obliterating the family's houses and robbing his grandchildren of their land.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/side/4060720.html |
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