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Date Added: April 21, 2008 11:54:02 PM

PHOENIX - Business leaders and others are putting the final touches on a proposed ballot measure that would increase the state's sales tax by a penny to raise billions of dollars for transportation projects, a leader of the effort said Monday.

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