According to the Texas Comptrollers' office Texas is $41.3 billion dollars in debt, and the debt owed to the Texas Department of Transportation reaches a whopping 13 billion.
State Sen. Kevin Eltife was bemused Wednesday by statewide media attention to a proposal he’s been floating for years to increase the gasoline tax to pay for highways.
Expensive challenges on Texas’ doorstep require more sober decisions and less lip-service conservatism, the state senator from Northeast Texas told Longview Rotarians on Tuesday.
