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AUSTIN — Maybe Texas’ transportation problems are a lot simpler to understand than recent fights over toll roads make it seem, North Texas leaders told state senators Wednesday. “My first recommendation: You need to provide a lot more revenue for transportation,” Michael Morris, transportation director for the North Central Texas Council of Governments, told the Texas Senate transportation committee. That was hardly the only suggestion from Mr. Morris or the many others who spoke to the committee, which is seeking input as it readies an approach on toll roads, TxDOT and more for the next legislative session. But it might...

FARGO, N.D. - Mayor Bruce Furness declared an emergency Thursday to help the city prepare for spring flooding. Officials said they closed some streets near the Red River but they believe the city is in good shape. "We've decided again to provide free sandbags to people along the river. And at this point, we think it's just a very few people," Furness said. "I want to emphasize that it's not a real critical situation at this point, but it is one that we have concern about," the mayor said. "We've ordered sand, we've ordered pumps to do the pumping that...

Alrighty sports fans, today is the 100th meeting between the Longhorns and Sooners, starting @noon CST on ABC! The game ought to be a great one...I'll go out on a limb and predict UT over OU, 45-10.

The consensus of film critics is that three of the four best Western movies ever made were those starring John Wayne: Stagecoach (1939), Red River (1948), and The Searchers (1956). (The fourth is Gary Cooper’s 1952 High Noon.) Many critics consider The Searchers to be one of the greatest movies, period, and has been the subject of numerous academic seminars. It is a lesser known John Wayne Western, however, that contains an important lesson for our relations with the Moslem world. Directed by John Ford, made in 1948, entitled She Wore A Yellow Ribbon, it stars Wayne as Capt. Nathan...

Red River schools may soon turn a corner Vickie Welborn / The Times Mansfield Bureau Posted on April 11, 2003 COUSHATTA - Red River schools Superintendent Kay Easley wasn't surprised Thursday when she saw her system on the very bottom of a statewide list comparing district performance scores. But she and others believe the system, struggling in the recent past with school consolidation and turmoil involving her and the School Board, soon will turn a corner. Easley has known since May the ranking would be low. "When you have a minus 9 and all you have is one school, you...