Link to story here.
Texas newspapers sold to Australian interests
Editorial change could silence critics of superhighways
By Jerome R. Corsi
WorldNetDaily.com
January 29, 2007
Macquarie, an Australian investment consortium involved in leasing U.S. toll roads, has begun acquiring newspapers in Texas, a move critics say is designed to silence grassroots objection to the planned Trans-Texas Corridor.
That highway project [...]

Listen in here or read the interview with William Lutz of the Lone Star Report below. Senator Carona continues to lead the PEOPLE’S fight against TxDOT’s verison of toll roads and the Trans Texas Corridor!
Interview: Sen. Transportation chairman John Carona
by William Lutz
Lone Star Report
January 29, 2007
When you’re talking to Texans about cars and [...]

Link to his editorial here. Check out this Senator’s take on the Austin MPO’s vote to REMOVE Phase II toll plans. He’s the Vice Chair of Senator Carona’s Senate Transportation Committee and he’s actually bringing up mass transit (something other than toll proliferation) as part of the solution.
His best comments: “We should never be faced [...]

Link to article here.
Senator, Transportation Department off to rough start in session
By Ben Wear
Austin American Statesman
January 29, 2007
That loud “D’oh!” you keep hearing from East 11th Street is the sound that Texas Department of Transportation officials make every time state Sen. John Carona files a bill. Or opens his mouth.
Carona, a Dallas Republican [...]

Link to article here.
House resolution opposes North American Union
Lawmakers seek to block NAFTA superhighway system, continental integration
By Jerome R. Corsi
World Net Daily
January 26, 2007
Rep. Virgil Goode, R-Va., has introduced a House resolution expressing congressional opposition to construction of a NAFTA Super Highway System or entry into a North American Union with Mexico and [...]

We’ve seen it in Austin, Dallas, Houston, and El Paso and now it’s come to San Antonio. The Governor and his Transportation Commission is apparently seeking to make enemies rather than friends by continuing their inexplicable bullying tactics. Read the letter below by Commissioner Tommy Adkisson and to see what the Governor anbd TxDOT are [...]

Link to WOAI story here.
Joe Krier here claims that there was controversy like this surrounding the construction of the interstate highway system by Eisenhower. HARDLY! The interstate system didn’t take swaths of private land the width of 4 footballs fields and effectively cut off normal wildlife migration patterns with 1,200 foot slabs of concrete without [...]

Link to article in Reuters here. Link to more in-depth Sydney Morning Herald article here.
The Sydney Morning Herald and Reuters is reporting that Macquarie Media Group Ltd., a subsidiary of Macquarie Bank, has purchased American Consolidated Media, subject to regulatory approval.
American Consolidated Media owns 40 newspapers, mostly in Texas and Oklahoma. The Hearne Democrat, Calvert [...]

Link to article here.
TxDOT is spending upwards of $30,000 a MONTH for lobbyists to lobby Congress. Remember that their letter to the 110th Congress included demands that ALL restrictions on tolling be removed and that they allow the selling of interstates to states so they can then toll taxpayers to drive on them as well [...]

Link to article here. Had it not been for TxDOT casting two votes to line their own pockets with toll money, it would have come down to a one vote difference. A new board member, a Councilman from Selma Charles Eads, showed up just in time to vote AGAINST THE PEOPLE and FOR TOLLS, along [...]