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I believe he is referring to the hope it would be run between Marshall and Hallsville versus where it is proposed now between Marshall and Waskom (if it is following 59, logically it would go around Marshall and thus probably take the Scottsville 2199 bypass of 59). Because of the latter, Marshall would reap most of the benefit. If it were the former, we wouldn't have a 35k population town between Longview and the TTC proposal.

I’m just glad it isn’t likely to come any closer to Toledo Bend than that. Wayne Christian claims he’s going to keep it away from here. I hope he can. We don’t care much for strangers around here.

Another allusion to TXDOT being so short of funds in this piece. Texans should demand to know how much money the state is getting with oil at $135/bbl.

We know that the money from our off-shore platforms is put into the Permanent University Fund, and is used only for Texas A&M and the University of Texas...and it is amazing that these greedy university systems keep hiking tuition rates for middle class students when the administrators of the fund are sitting on about $90 BILLION. Someone needs to find out how much money is being made by them for investing that very lucrative fund.

Our liberal newspapers are not interested in finding out where the windfall oil profits of the state of Texas are going.