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A fo ur-page flier touting the benefits of paying for more than $168 million in local road projects through a regional transportation authority is hitting Beach mailboxes. Called the "Stolle Sentinel," the handbill - with full-color photos - was distributed by State S en. Kenneth Stolle prior to a crucial May 8 City Council vote on joining or rejecting membership in the proposed authority.
By LARRY SANDLER The Milwaukee area's newest government body started work this week with the realization that it doesn't have the power to accomplish its only mission.
We've undoubtedly all experienced frustrations related to regional traffic woes: backed-up intersections; deteriorating roadways; antiquated exit ramps; how to avoid turning herds of road crossing Preble's mice into furry little flatcakes. Then there's that quintessentially Colorado Springs question: Isn't there an easier way to travel east and west in this city? But frustrated commuters can now be cautiously optimistic that government officials are trying to do something about the region's transportation challenges. On Friday, members of the Colorado Springs City Council and El Paso County commission met to draft a ballot question that would create a regional transportation authority, or RTA, by levying a 1-cent sales-tax increase and devoting the money to a specific list of transporta...
A state budget amendment that would free up a Dane County regional transit authority's money for road projects added fuel to an already heated debate. Even supporters of the original proposal say the inclusion of road money sullies the original idea.
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