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Democrats were not the only losers on Election Day. Traffic cameras designed to catch red-light runners also took a ballot box beating as they were voted down in Houston and at least four other cities nationwide. More than 50 Texas communities have installed the cameras since 2003, when Garland became the state’s first city to do so. But growing opposition, buttressed by the same brand of anti-government ire that propelled the tea party this fall, has cast an uncertain future on the cameras.

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With the city’s alcohol election only five weeks away, an Oak Cliff group is launching an information initiative about the two ballot measures. Dallas voters will decide Nov. 2 whether to allow the sale of beer and wine in stores citywide and whether to eliminate the “private club” rule for restaurants, as in let them sell alcoholic beverages without that silly and costly membership card requirement.

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A group backed by major grocery store chains, restaurants and other retailers launched a drive Tuesday to place on the November ballot two measures to allow alcohol sales in “dry” areas of Dallas. Progress Dallas has 60 days to collect the signatures of 68,846 Dallas voters in order to bring the issue to a vote. The group plans to place petitions in Kroger, Wal-Mart, Sam’s Club, Albertson’s, Whole Foods and restaurants throughout Dallas. If they succeed, the ballot will include two initiatives, each of which could be voted up or down.

So how would transportation issues fare in Texas or Dallas if placed before voters? Convention wisdom is that transportation does well on the ballot, and this week’s elections kept that trend alive.

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With more than 1.7 million military veterans in Texas and just nine Veterans Affairs hospitals, long drives are not uncommon in the Rio Grande Valley and some other parts of the state with large veteran populations. For decades veterans along the U.S.-Mexico border have had to travel five hours to San Antonio for many medical procedures.

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