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Veteran Expediter
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Story Number One -
From the AP;
BROWNSVILLE, Texas – Nearly six months after the U.S.-Mexico border fence ordered by the Bush administration was supposed to be finished, its completion is in limbo while a judge waits answers to questions about private property in the fence's path.
About 630 miles of the promised 670-mile-long vehicle and pedestrian barrier is complete, with the unfinished portion in deep south Texas where opposition is fierce and the government has struggled to get the land it needs.
The biggest unfinished segment is a 13-mile stretch that runs east of Brownsville through rich farmland toward the Gulf of Mexico.
While the government has taken steps to smooth the project's path — such as paying to relocate 300 native palm trees from a section near Brownsville — some of its promises are coming under intense scrutiny.
Government possession of several pieces of farmland needed for that final stretch was suspended last month by the judge.
Government lawyers are now scrambling to meet the judge's orders and provide written answers to landowners' most basic questions: What precisely is the government taking, and how will property owners access the thousands of acres of land stranded between the border fence and the Rio Grande?
Story Number Two -
From the AP;
SHANKSVILLE, Pa. -- The National Park Service has acquired about 950 acres of land for the Flight 93 National Memorial in southwestern Pennsylvania.
Friday's announcement said it's the park service's largest single acquisition of private land for the memorial about 65 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. The land does not include the 500 acres of private land the government is trying to acquire for the memorial through eminent domain.
The government plans a $58 million, 2,200-acre permanent memorial and national park at the crash site.
Story Number One -
From the AP;
BROWNSVILLE, Texas – Nearly six months after the U.S.-Mexico border fence ordered by the Bush administration was supposed to be finished, its completion is in limbo while a judge waits answers to questions about private property in the fence's path.
About 630 miles of the promised 670-mile-long vehicle and pedestrian barrier is complete, with the unfinished portion in deep south Texas where opposition is fierce and the government has struggled to get the land it needs.
The biggest unfinished segment is a 13-mile stretch that runs east of Brownsville through rich farmland toward the Gulf of Mexico.
While the government has taken steps to smooth the project's path — such as paying to relocate 300 native palm trees from a section near Brownsville — some of its promises are coming under intense scrutiny.
Government possession of several pieces of farmland needed for that final stretch was suspended last month by the judge.
Government lawyers are now scrambling to meet the judge's orders and provide written answers to landowners' most basic questions: What precisely is the government taking, and how will property owners access the thousands of acres of land stranded between the border fence and the Rio Grande?
Story Number Two -
From the AP;
SHANKSVILLE, Pa. -- The National Park Service has acquired about 950 acres of land for the Flight 93 National Memorial in southwestern Pennsylvania.
Friday's announcement said it's the park service's largest single acquisition of private land for the memorial about 65 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. The land does not include the 500 acres of private land the government is trying to acquire for the memorial through eminent domain.
The government plans a $58 million, 2,200-acre permanent memorial and national park at the crash site.
