It might not surprise you to learn that a lobby group financed by the highway construction industry has issued a report that says Arkansas needs a massive amount of highway repair and bridge reconstruction.

The group, TRIP, may even be right. See if they can get right on making some of the major causes of disrepair — truckers and the gas drillers — pay their fair share of the cost.

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