{"id":1401,"date":"2008-03-05T12:14:58","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T16:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=1401"},"modified":"2008-03-05T12:16:15","modified_gmt":"2008-03-05T16:16:15","slug":"1401","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2008\/03\/05\/1401\/","title":{"rendered":"Mythical and theoretical NAFTA Superhighway and apparently phantom hearings&#8230;.BOSTON GLOBE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Boston Globe <\/em>   <\/p>\n<p><strong>Texans ponder where superhighway might take them   <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;&#8221;I think it&#8217;s overkill,&#8221; said Wilson Toudouze, a San Antonio rancher whose mother lives in Refugio. &#8220;I think there&#8217;s probably better alternatives than taking this enormous amount of private property and giving it to the state.&#8221; &#8212; &#8220;This wasn&#8217;t what we were sold in the original I-69 &#8211; all those pipelines and train lines,&#8221; added Melvin Santiago&#8230; <\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And now this South Texas outpost is swept up in one of the more intriguing tests of myth vs. reality in today&#8217;s political life: the battle over the so-called NAFTA Superhighway.<\/p>\n<p>Local residents came together last week for one in a series of public hearings on the proposed Trans-Texas Corridor, a massive public works project that in this area would take the form of a superhighway from the Mexican border to the Arkansas border, with special trucking lanes and rail lines, along with communication and utility cables.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/nation\/washington\/articles\/2008\/03\/04\/texans_ponder_where_superhighway_might_take_them\/\">HERE.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Globe Texans ponder where superhighway might take them &#8230;&#8221;I think it&#8217;s overkill,&#8221; said Wilson Toudouze, a San Antonio rancher whose mother lives in Refugio. &#8220;I think there&#8217;s probably better alternatives than taking this enormous amount of private property and giving it to the state.&#8221; &#8212; &#8220;This wasn&#8217;t what we were sold in the original [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}