Christian McPhate | Denton Record-Chronicle
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Denton City Council members were divided at Tuesday night’s special called meeting over whether to tighten restrictions on short-term rentals, citing reasons such as the lack of enforcement of current rules that require short-term rental owners to pay the city’s hotel occupancy tax.
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The Denton City Council voted this week to approve nearly all of the nominees to a Charter Review Committee, which will begin meeting later this month to discuss possible updates to the city charter that could add additional council seats and possibly lengthen council members' terms.
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Three community organizers with PRO Gainesville, a grassroots group, protested a Confederate monument in downtown Gainesville in the summer of 2020, when people were gathering around the country to protest symbols of the Confederacy.
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Another round of utility rate increases will go into effect in October, as part of a quarterly review process the Denton City Council approved in March.
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Years into their work, Denton ethics board is facing burden of proof to bring changes to ethics codeDenton’s ethics code has been called unique, but not in a good way, and an “embarrassment” by David Zoltner, a current board member and longtime critic, in part due to the burden of proof requirement. It requires complainants to become what Zoltner called “amateur prosecutors” and prove their case at a public hearing.
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When a Denton resident appeared before the Denton City Council in 2022 to talk about his difficulties finding stable employment, he was there as one of the 1 in 3 adults in the U.S. with criminal records.
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Willowwood Church of the Nazarene in Denton is workin with the nonprofit Sleep in Heavenly peace, building beds for children who don't have one.
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Denton residents will now have a right to air conditioning after the City Council voted 5-2 Tuesday night to require air conditioning in all rental properties.
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Local organization Decriminalize Denton seeks a new motion to vacate a previous ruling in favor of Attorney General Ken Paxton after a Travis County district judge dismissed the same case in Austin.
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Phillips, 75, planned to offer pickups in various conditions and began traveling around the country in the early 1990s after he retired to find them.
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Allegations of toxic work environment and high turnover plague Denton County mental health agency.
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Late Tuesday night, Denton City Council voted against moving forward with a fair-chance hiring ordinance.