News for January 24, 2003

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Projects funded by TxDOT in question
Funding for Interstate 35 and other Texas Department of Transportation projects throughout the state will be cut, but by how much is a question no one can answer, said Ken Roberts, TxDOT-Waco District public information officer. City and regional transportation planners were put on alert last week after an internal memo out of TxDOT in Austin calling for $1.4 billion in funding cuts for the I-35 Waco District expansion plan through Temple and Waco was circulated through a Killeen-Temple Urban Transportation Study (K-TUTS) meeting. The region would then only receive $100 million over 11 years for maintenance of the interstate in the area, and other projects would be need to be cut altogether, according to the memo. by Jennifer Marciniak

A&M auditorium named for Frank W. Mayborn
The auditorium in the newest campus addition to the Texas A&M University System Health Science Center was named the Frank W. Mayborn Auditorium in action by the Texas A&M System Board of Regents on Thursday. The auditorium seats 330 and is located in the A&M System Health Science Center College of Medicine Education Center at Scott and White Memorial Hospital in Temple. The name honors longtime community leader and newspaperman Mayborn for his contributions to Scott and White

Audit: State fraud waste runs high
AUSTIN (AP) At a time when lawmakers face a $9.9 billion budget shortfall, a new state auditor

U.S., Europe differ oon possible Iraqi wast
PARIS (AP) An America eager to punish Iraq finds itself in heated conflict with European leaders who warn that war brings incalculable risk and must be only a final, desperate choice. They say a long history of war and terrorism on their doorstep has made them far more realistic about what can happen when diplomacy gives way to gunfire. Europeans, whose Middle Eastern experience goes back to the Crusades and whose economies are linked closely to Muslim countries just across the Mediterranean, believe the stakes for them are higher. They fear the consequences of a destabilized Iraq in a tough neighborhood, along with an unpredictable anti-Western backlash that could ripple through Muslim communities in their midst.