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Just about everyone in Missouri politics agrees that the state badly needs an infusion of cash to fix thousands of miles of crumbling highways and scores of increasingly rickety bridges.

Finding consensus on where that money should come from hasn’t come so easy.

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Halfway through the 2015 legislative session, lawmakers have yet to coalesce around a plan to make up a $160 million shortfall projected by state transportation officials. If the legislature is unable to come up with a solution, the state transportation budget will shrink so much next year that only a quarter of the state’s 34,000 miles of roads will get proper upkeep.

“Do we want to keep our head in the sand or do we want to move forward?,” said Sen. Doug Libla, a Poplar Bluff Republican.

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