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The Texas Department of Transportation is asking Nueces County residents to attend a public meeting in Driscoll to comment and provide input on proposed upgrades of US 77 to a controlled access facility that meets interstate standards. The purpose of the meetings is to review proposed options for upgrading US 77 and to present recommendations, TxDOT officials said. The first round public meetings were held in early March. This second round of public meetings is being held as part of TxDOT's continued effort to gain public input on issues related to proposed improvements and to provide an opportunity for public...

In my recent letter to you concerning the TTC, I misquoted some information about the company known as Cintra. Mr. Patrick Rhodes of Cintra wrote in response to my mistake. Therefore, I stand corrected with the following: Fellow citizens, the company, Cintra, is not affiliated with ZAI-ACS. Cintra is partnered with Zachry on some TxDOT projects and ACS is partnered with Zachry on some other TxDOT projects. Therefore, I hope this clarifies the over-zealous statements in my letter. Cintra is a Spanish-owned company, and ACS is a larger Spanish-owned company. Zachry, a Texas company, is affiliated with each of them...

AUSTIN — The Texas Transportation Commission on Thursday selected San Antonio's Zachry Construction Corp. and a Spanish toll road developer to plan a superhighway from Texarkana to Brownsville. The $5 million contract calls for Zachry American Infrastructure and ACS Infrastructure to create a financial plan for the Interstate 69 segment of the Trans-Texas Corridor. "This team represents the best in the balance of local and global expertise necessary to complete a project of this scope," said David Zachry, chief operating officer of Zachry Construction Corp. The private developers' plan calls for seven new loops around Corpus Christi and other cities...

After a year of border fence protests in Brownsville, a meeting Saturday at a home that will soon be bisected by the barrier might be among the last opposition efforts before construction starts. Approximately 15 people gathered in the Pamela Taylor's front yard in rural Southmost, including several area residents who spoke publicly for the first time about the fence and its impact on their properties. "It's unfortunate that we even have to have a gathering like this," Diana Lucio said. "Because we're listening to each other, but I don't know if the government is listening to its own citizens."...

Responding to concerns that a superhighway project running from East Texas to the border with Mexico could cut through private lands, state transportation officials said Tuesday that they will only consider putting it along existing roads. State officials have held almost 50 public meetings and received about 28,000 responses from residents about the proposed Interstate 69 project, which would be part of the so-called Trans-Texas Corridor network of toll roads. The "overwhelming sentiment" of the comments from the public was that the state should focus on using existing roads instead of carving new ones out of the countryside, said Amadeo...

Many in the great state of Texas have a lot to say about a proposed network of toll roads and railway lines known as the Trans-Texas Corridor. The Texas Department of Transportation received more than 27,000 public comments during a three-month comment period on a proposed corridor project called the TTC-69, said TxDOT spokesman Mark Cross. Transportation officials had 47 public hearings in February and March and accepted written comments through April 18 on the environmental and social impact of the corridor. Comments ranged from flat-out opposition to the corridor to suggestions about how to lessen its impact, Cross told...

Congressman, Texans clash over border McALLEN, Texas (AP) - South Texas officials who oppose a border fence are stepping up their criticism of a Colorado congressman who favors the divider. The mayors of Brownsville and Eagle Pass said Friday that U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo falsely suggested that they believe there is no border between the two countries. In a letter Friday, Brownsville Mayor Pat Ahumada and Eagle Pass Mayor Chad Foster, who is also chairman of the Texas Border Coalition, called the suggestion "ridiculously juvenile," and noted that the Rio Grande is a clear border between the United States and...

Each day, I make the dreaded drive down Interstate 35 to go to work in Fort Worth. Each day, I slug through the snarl and sludge of ceaseless traffic, which intensifies my growing desire to commit hari-kari, or at least incites a vehement curse of the highway gods. Certainly, we in Texas need more lanes, more roads, more rails, more something to deal with the ever-expanding urban population and growing international commerce. Yet how do we solve our transportation needs without carving up the countryside like some congratulatory cake? Or should the construction of a superhighway-rail-utility corridor even concern us?...

Despite the uproar over the state's proposal to build Trans-Texas Corridor 69 through East Texas, Lufkin's mayor says he supports the highway — as long as it follows the path of the current U.S. Highway 59. The Trans Texas Corridor/I-69 project is a statewide network of transportation routes in Texas that will incorporate existing and new highways, railways and utility right-of-ways. Anyone wishing to comment on the proposed road can go online to www.keeptexasmoving.com. TxDOT has expanded its public comment period for TTC-69 to Friday, April 18. Gov. Rick Perry appointed Gorden, along with 17 other Texans, to an I-69...

As the state's population continues to grow in its urban centers, expansion plans for the highway system continue to be the focus for transportation improvements. The Trans Texas Corridor proposal is aimed to alleviate traffic congestion, improve air quality and provide safer traveling for drivers, among other goals. In 2002, Texas Governor Rick Perry released the plan to create the passageway, which spans northeast from Laredo to Oklahoma and is set to total 4,000 miles in the next 50 years. The $140 billion project calls for the incorporation of new toll roads, commuter railways, power lines and gas pipelines, while...

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,...

BROWNSVILLE - A 23-year-old man was arrested Wednesday on charges of being part of an auto-theft ring that was allegedly stealing tractors. Tirso Alamillo was charged with six counts of theft of a motor vehicle and one count of engaging in organized criminal activity, police Sgt. Jimmy Manrrique said. The auto-theft ring was stealing large machinery from construction sites, according to a police report. "The ring is accused of stealing six back-hoe tractors ... and a motor grader tractor," Manrrique said. "These vehicle are worth (a lot) of money on the black market and are believed to have been routed...

There's been a lot of talk about the new Trans-Texas Corridor — the next-generation "super-highway" — and opinions are varying. Now the debate is coming to Lufkin's doorstep. On Monday, the American Land Foundation, Stewards of the Range and TURF will hold a workshop at Lufkin's Pitser Garrison Civic Center on how to stop the Trans-Texas Corridor 69. The event runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. A portion of Texas citizens have voiced their opposition to the TTC-69 in public meetings held by the Texas Department of Transportation, but believing they are not being heard, four cities and their...

Officials with the Spanish toll road operator Cintra have announced that the company has secured $430 million in loans from the U.S. government to build and operate two segments of a toll road in central Texas. Cintra officials announced the company’s financial plan for the $1.36 billion Highway 130 segments on Monday, March 10. OOIDA Senior Government Affairs Representative Mike Joyce told Land Line that the Association does raise red flags when federal dollars are used to subsidize private investors. Officials with the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association are not, however, categorically opposed to a state using future toll revenue to...

AUSTIN - When it comes to road improvement and maintenance, by most accounts, the South Plains and Panhandle are fortunate. Despite a $1.1 billion accounting error, the Texas Department of Transportation recently reported no projects in the region have been canceled or delayed while cities like Dallas, Houston and Laredo had at least a half dozen highway projects delayed. But the $1.1 billion-error, which occurred because TxDOT inadvertently counted some bond money twice and consequently allocated more funding than it had, is just the latest problem plaguing the beleaguered agency. For months, TxDOT executive director Amadeo Saenz and other transportation...

Trucks hauling everything from cars to produce use Southeast Texas roads to deliver their goods, and when a proposed Interstate 69/Trans Texas Corridor is completed, local drivers could see even more of them, local transportation officials said. The proposed I-69 corridor stretches from Michigan down to Texas. Once in Texas, the corridor goes about 650 miles from Texarkana to Brownsville and Laredo and includes separate lanes for cars and semis and areas for trains and utilities. It doesn't cut through Beaumont, but local arteries like U.S. 69 and Interstate 10 would connect to it. Travelers and truckers just need to...

McALLEN — In other parts of the state, transportation officials try to allay property owners' fears that a superhighway from Laredo north to Texarkana will result in a massive land grab. But in the lower Rio Grande Valley, the state's road builders spend more time assuring local leaders that they have a shot at being included. People in the fast-growing border area between Brownsville and McAllen have developed something of an inferiority complex about being the state's largest metropolitan area without an interstate highway. One after another, Valley leaders stepped to a microphone at public meetings last week and made...

ROBSTOWN, Tex. — Leon Little’s farm here near Corpus Christi would not be seized for Texas’s proposed $184-billion-plus superhighway project for 5 or 10 years, if ever. But Mr. Little was alarmed enough to show up Wednesday night with hundreds of his South Texas coastal neighbors to do what the Texas Department of Transportation has been urging: “Go ahead, don’t hold back.� Don’t worry. Texans have gotten the message, swamping hearings and town meetings across the state to grill and often excoriate agency officials about a colossal traffic makeover known as the Trans-Texas Corridor, a public-private partnership unrivaled in the...

A so-called “NAFTA Superhighway� earned support from the city’s mayor and discussion among residents Monday during a public hearing on the Texas Department of Transportation’s I-69 project. TxDOT held a public hearing at the Brownsville Events Center Monday to explain the progress of the Trans-Texas Corridor, a future segment of Highway I-69, which will link the U.S.-Mexico border to the U.S.-Canada border. After a short presentation, the floor was open for comments. Among the local politicians, college students and retirees at the hearing there was a wide range of opinion on the project. According to Mario Jorge, district engineer for...

A big protest is planned for Monday afternoon, ahead of the latest public hearing on the proposed statewide tollway. Lots of landowners are upset about the state’s plan to build a tollway from Mexico to northeast Texas. There have already been several town hall meetings about the Trans-Texas Corridor. Most of the people who have spoken out about the plan say it will put them out of business. But state officials argue the tollway is necessary to keep up with the growing population in Texas. Monday’s meeting is being held in Huntsville. It starts at 6:30 p.m. at the Walker...

WESLACO — Nearly 80 people filled a lecture hall here Thursday for a town hall forum with Texas Department of Transportation officials on a potential interstate highway designation in the region. The forum at South Texas College’s Mid-Valley Campus was the first of four planned public meetings in the Rio Grande Valley addressing the state’s Trans-Texas Corridor plan for an Interstate 69 extension linking South Texas to points north. TxDOT is developing plans for the first interstate in eastern Texas to connect Texarkana to one of three points in the south: U.S. Highway 281 in Hidalgo County, U.S. Highway 77...

Some Texans are afraid of losing their land to the Trans-Texas Corridor while others loathe the thought of a quarter-mile-wide swath of toll roads and railway lines transforming the countryside into a superhighway. People continue to turn out in droves at public meetings concerning the controversial Trans-Texas Corridor proposal, specifically the portion known as the TTC-69 proposed from Brownsville to Texarkana. A meeting Monday, Jan. 28, at the fairgrounds in Austin County was no exception, drawing more than 1,000 people. Opposition to the proposed corridor has come from people in all walks of life, said Chris Steinbach, chief of staff...

BELLVILLE — In what is becoming a regular occurrence in Southeast Texas, more than 1,000 Austin County residents and interested outsiders jammed a county fairgrounds exhibit hall Monday night to let a panel of state transportation officials know that the Trans-Texas Corridor was not welcome here. State Rep. Lois Kolkhorst, R-Brenham, opened the public remarks to thunderous applause when she told the panel, "You all thought I was crazy in Austin when I said my people don't want it and I don't want it." The panel, which included Texas Department of Transportation Executive Director Amadeo Saenz and Deputy Executive Director...

State Sen. Glen Hegar says he opposes a route that would bring the mammoth Trans Texas Corridor through his district. The Texas Department of Transportation has kicked off a series of public meetings to discuss the project. Meetings are scheduled for Tuesday in Hempstead (6:30 p.m. at the Knights of Columbus Hall, 22892 Mack Washington St.) and Jan. 29 in Bellville (at the Austin County fairgrounds, also beginning at 6:30 p.m.). No meetings are scheduled in Washington County, which likely wouldn’t be impacted much by the highway project. Much of the discussion in public meetings already held centers on Interstate...

The State's Transportation Department has nearly 50 public meetings scheduled to hear from people along the proposed I-69 portion of the Trans-Texas Corridor. The corridor is planned as a superhighway with separate car and truck lanes, freight and commuter rail and utility lines. Parallel to I-35 [actually, that's the I-35 portion. --TSR] and the future I-69, today's US 59 are the planned routes. TEX-DOT's Randall Dillard says that several citizen's advisory committees are being set up along the I-69 and I-35 routes to get feedback. Opponents say the corridor will put Texas in a security risk and damage the economy....

When the Texas Department of Transportation begins work on the I-69/Trans Texas Corridor, the U.S. 77 leg from Victoria to Brownsville will be developed first. Cameron County Commissioners revealed the information during Tuesday’s Cameron County Commissioners Court meeting. County officials received the news from the state’s Turnpike Authority Division on Monday. In a letter to Cameron County, Turnpike Authority Division Director Phillip E. Russell said, TXDOT has identified U.S. 77 as “high priority� and the “first near term facility to be developed under the I-69/TTC Comprehensive Development Agreement.� The U.S. 77 Highway runs from Victoria to Brownsville. Precinct 3 Commissioner...

Peña, Torres get 5 years deferred adjudication, fines of $1,000 BROWNSVILLE — Former Precinct 4 Cameron County Commissioner Roberto Hector Peña and Francisco Javier Torres, both former Texas State Technical College-Harlingen criminal justice instructors, were each sentenced for their roles in a phony police training scheme. Judge Abel Limas on Monday sentenced the men to five years deferred adjudication and fined them $1,000. Although TSTC police estimated the pair bilked taxpayers out of $100,000 to $200,000 for Homeland Security and anti-terrorism training for Brownsville school district police, Peña was ordered to pay only $37,403 in restitution. Torres was ordered to...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents in Brownsville on Tuesday arrested a Mexican national wanted on criminal charges in California. Agents patrolling the East Side of Brownsville near the Fort Brown station arrested Jose Eduardo Sanchez Martinez after learning Sanchez was in the United States illegally. While being processed, Sanchez’s fingerprints were checked through the FBI’s computer database, which alerted agents that Sanchez was wanted by the Riverside County Sheriff’s office in California on charges of kidnapping and willful cruelty and endangerment to a child. Wednesday night, it was unclear where Sanchez was being held, said Oscar Saldaña, a spokesman...

Man accused of holding stepdaughter captive. Brownsville police are seeking the community’s help in finding a 54-year-old man accused of holding his teenage stepdaughter captive for at least two months in a travel trailer on Thomas Street. Juan Miguel Medrano Jr., who is an undocumented immigrant, is sought on a warrant charging him with abandoning a child, ag-gravated sexual assault of a child, and unlawful restraint, police said. Sgt. Jimmy Manrrique said investigators depend on the public’s help in cases such as Medrano’s. “The public is our best resource to bring people in,” Manrrique said. Police have no clues as...

AUSTIN – Jim Fuller, Libertarian candidate for Texas House District 38, has died. Fuller was vacationing at his stepson’s house in Kalamazoo, Mich., when he did not wake up the morning of Aug. 12, said Floyd Murray, his stepson. The cause of death was ruled congestive hear t failure. Fuller’s death leaves only Eddie Lucio III on the November ballot for the open seat that includes most of Harlingen and northern Brownsville. Lucio III, considered to be the frontrunner, has wide family influence and was the only candidate raising money. The Republican candidate, Brownsville businessman Luis Cavazos, withdrew from the...

A Circle K in a rural part of Brownsville has become the common thread in three violent attacks on young women. Police say the attacker has already raped one young girl and tried to do the same with two others. The Circle K is located on Old Port Isabel Road and FM 802. Brownsville police say a man who goes by the names Juan Cruz, Wilmer and William Betancourt hunts for his victims at the convenience store. He's been on the run and needless to say store customers are worried who will be next. "That you're pumping gas, you get...

News of a possible Panama Canal expansion makes the Rio Grande Valley's quest for interstate highway access even more important, state Transportation Commissioner Ric Williamson told a crowd of South Texas officials pleading Thursday for the interstate. President Martin Torrijos of Panama on Monday urged Panamanians to support a $5.25 billion expansion that could increase cargo ship traffic and the need for new or expanded ports. Rio Grande Valley leaders see the port of Brownsville as both a key Gulf of Mexico port and a destination for goods coming across Mexico from expanded Pacific Coast ports taking traffic from clogged-up...

WESTWOOD ONE LAUNCHES THE MONICA CROWLEY SHOW --New Program to Air Saturdays, Noon - 3 p.m. ET-- Beginning Saturday, April 1, 2006 New York, NY Monday, Mar 20, 2006 - Westwood One (NYSE: WON) is proud to announce the national launch of The Monica Crowley Show, the three-hour talk program hosted by author and news personality Monica Crowley. The show begins Saturday, April 1, 2006, and will air from noon to 3 p.m. ET. The Monica Crowley Show will debut on major market stations across the country including: WABC-AM New York, WTKK-FM Boston and WTNT-AM Washington DC. The show will...

— Combating the image of violence along the Texas-Tamaulipas border brought 19 chambers of commerce from both states together Tuesday for the first binational conference of many to come, organizers said. “Security is the problem of both countries — not just one,” said the president of Tamaulipas chambers of commerce Eduardo Jesús Melhem Kuri. Representatives from 13 chambers of commerce in Tamaulipas and six in Texas signed a binational agreement aimed at increasing tourism, improving security and streamlining transportation infrastructure between the two countries. “We’re trying to do what the government can’t do,” said Bill Summers, president of the Rio...

BROWNSVILLE - What does the illegal trek into the United States look like through the eyes of a migrant? It's a question three filmmakers want to answer with the help of photos taken by mostly Mexican and Central American migrants. Rudy Adler, Victoria Criado and Brett Huneycutt passed out more than 100 disposable cameras with 27 exposures in Mexico to potential migrants. They plan to distribute 250 cameras throughout the U.S.-Mexico border region by the end of summer for their project, "Documenting the Undocumented." "This journey is something that we can't document, but think the migrants can best document themselves,"...

— Of the 27 workers detained by federal agents at the Port of Brownsville this week, 23 returned to Mexico via voluntary departure, consulate offi-cials said Friday. Charges ranging from illegal entry to possession of fraudulent documents were imposed on 24 of the detainees. All 24 were Mexican nationals and the remaining three remained unidentified as of Friday evening. The Mexican Consulate interviewed the 23 workers as they departed to notify their families and to ascertain whether they had any wages or other business pending. Consulate officials went on to say that one national is being detained for reasons un-known,...

Majority of City Commission would support resolution against border militia group — Cameron Park church parishioners are organizing a “white ribbon” campaign for dialogue, calling for prayer and reflection in response to the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps. of Texas’ plans to mobilize in the Rio Grande Valley. The so-called Minutemen have organized to combat illegal immigration into the United States, posting a militia-like armed watch at various border points and recruiting members from across the country. The group from San Felipe de Jesús Church call themselves Social Justice and Peace Pastoral. “It’s a response to the Minuteman project that offers...

Undocumented Honduran group reaches Brownsville, turns toward New Jersey — They were drenched from head to toe and shivering under the awning of a McDonald’s as Hurricane Emily dumped cold rain around them, but the group of seven decided they needed to get moving. They crossed Brownsville’s International Boulevard, which had been emptied of its usual Wednesday morning traffic, and filed past out-of-town reporters and city workers who were clearing a fallen palm tree. Nobody seemed to pay attention to the seven undocumented Honduran immigrants who had just swum across the Rio Grande with hopes of reaching relatives and jobs...

WTUS84 KBRO 200859 AAA HLSBRO TXZ248>257-201200- Hurricane local statement...updated to extend Tornado Watch National Weather Service Brownsville TX 400 AM CDT Wed July 20 2005 ...Eye of major Hurricane Emily nearing the coast of NorthEastern Mexico... ...A hurricane warning is in effect for the lower Texas coast from Port Mansfield to Brownsville... ...A tropical storm warning is in effect for the Texas Gulf Coast from Baffin Bay to Port Mansfield... ...Inland tropical storm warning is in effect for Brooks...Hidalgo and Star counties in deep South Texas... ...A Tornado Watch is in effect for all deep South Texas through 10 AM...

July 12, 2005 — Matamoros officials have confirmed four cases of dengue fever and are investigating at least 35 suspected cases of the deadly virus in Brownsville’s sister city. The majority of the cases were reported north of Matamoros and away from the Brownsville area, according to Josue Ramirez, Brownsville health director. No cases of dengue have been reported here this year. Matamoros health officials could not be reached for comment Monday. Mexican news media reported that the city was spraying for mosquitoes in areas where the dengue cases are believed to have originated. Dengue fever is an acute viral...

Group released after test results June 18, 2005 — Test results are negative on 44 Cubans examined for tuberculosis after the majority of the group claimed to have the disease then later retracted the statements. Chest X-rays were performed on all the undocumented immigrants and none were found to have TB, a spokeswoman for the Cameron County Health and Human Services said Friday. The group was released after testing negative, a Customs and Border Protection spokeswoman told The Associated Press. The Cubans were apprehended Thursday after they tried to cross the Veterans International Bridge into Brownsville. Authorities reported the group...

About 40 illegal immigrants from Cuba were found at the Gateway International Bridge in Brownsville . What is more alarming is a disease they say they're carrying. Initially the 40 Cuban detainees told U.S. Customs agents they all had tuberculosis, then their story changed numerous times. But, Cameron County health leaders say no matter how many may have TB, it's a dangerous and very contagious disease, so all 40 are being tested. Herb Tolentino, the director of nurses for the Cameron County health department says illegal immigrants are normally high carriers of tuberculosis. "But, just because they used the word...

In the public eye, Conrado Cantu had it all. The former Cameron County sheriff was often described as charismatic, a man with a firm handshake and a popular catchphrase “Animo” — meaning cheer and encouragement — that became synonymous with his own name. He had politicians by his side, voters on their feet, a badge and a fleet of law enforcement officials at the ready. But the brass badge that adorned his chest was used to shield political allies and drug traffickers, federal investigators are alleging. It helped the former lawman collect a percentage of drug profits and shake down...

State exam shows murder suspect not mentally retarded — Angela Camacho is now eligible to face the death penalty for allegedly killing her three children after a state report revealed Thursday that she is not mentally retarded. The results were a blow to claims that Camacho could not be executed under a U.S. Supreme Court ruling and forced defense attorneys to ask Judge Benjamin Euresti with the 107th state District Court to postpone a May trial for at least another month. Euresti set a pretrial hearing for June 2. When the trial begins, prosecutors will seek the death penalty, said...

Brownsville vies for major highway corridors McAllen, Laredo also in running for interstate linking Canada to Mexico By Gilberto SalinasThe Brownsville Herald March 6, 2005 — Brownsville is among three South Texas cities playing a game of musical chairs for two major highway corridors. When the music stops, one city will come out empty-handed in its bid to land Interstate-69 and Trans-Texas Corridor-35. Both projects remain in the planning stages, but state transportation officials have already narrowed the competitors to McAllen, Laredo and Brownsville. “There’s two legs and three locations. In the Rio Grande Valley, we’re going to get at...

The Mexican Attorney General's office thinks the "Zetas" gang (ex-army commandos and the muscle of the Gulf Drug Cartel) may have come into possession of the SA-7 Grail missile.

Man used recent headlines to create smokescreen, police say By SERGIO CHAPA and KEVIN GARCIA The Brownsville Herald A Brownsville man is accused of killing his wife, then driving her body to a Matamoros clinic as part of an elaborate cover-up...

Posted on Tue, Jan. 25, 2005 Hundreds of officers join border patrol Goal is to curb Mexico's violence MEXICO CITY — Hundreds of federal police and soldiers were patrolling two Mexican border cities on Monday, marking a new chapter in Mexico's deadly war against drug traffickers. Over the weekend, an estimated 600 federal officers and at least six military tanks assumed posts in Reynosa and Matamoros. The two cities are across the border from McAllen and Brownsville, Texas. The deployments were in response to the abduction and execution of six prison employees last week in Matamoros by suspected drug smugglers,...

The American Consulate office in Matamoros, Mexico (across the border from Brownsville, Texas) has issued a new travel advisory to Americans travelling to the Mexican Border State of Tamaulipas. It urges travellers to use caution as 30 drug-related murders in the first 20 days of 2005, including the torture and murder of six federal prison workers Thursday.

The Archdiocese of Brownsville, Texas is running a half-page ad titled, "Abortion is the Issue" in the Sunday edition of the McAllen Monitor. I suspect that it is also running in the Brownsville Herald as well, but I do not a have a copy in hand to veryify that. It is a staggeringly effective indictment of the Kerry position on abortion and fetal stem cell research. I have scanned the ad and made a very clear and readable 800x600 jpeg that I would love to post in this thread, but I have nowhere to host it. I cannot use a...