Rural Roads Are the Backbone of Rural Texas — and They Deserve Austin’s Attention

If you live in rural Texas, it will come as no surprise that county roads across the state are failing. You feel it every time you dodge a pothole, ease past slow-moving farm equipment, or watch a school bus crawl down a road that hasn’t seen real maintenance in years.Transportation may not sound exciting, but the condition of our county roads is a conversation rural Texans should be p...