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Archive Home > 2009 > March > 23 > From the Texas prairie to the rest of the U.S., stimulus ideals clash

From the Texas prairie to the rest of the U.S., stimulus ideals clash

Developers laud big transportation projects; not so those against sprawl

By Michael Cooper / The Bulletin
March 23, 2009

WALLER, Texas — Over the years the Katy Prairie has survived the cattle ranchers who tamed its fields, the rice farmers who cleared its wildflowers and tall grasses, and even the encroachment of Houston, some 30 miles to the east, whose spiraling outward growth turned most of the....

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