Christian McPhate | Denton Record-Chronicle
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The city audit, which looked at operations at the shelter from 2023 and 2024, offered 34 recommendations for improvement, many of which Sassenus and staffers have been addressing for several months.
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Late Monday afternoon, a three-member panel of the Board of Ethics dismissed Hudspeth’s complaint at a special-called meeting, pointing out that the benefit is available to all DME customers with solar panels and not only to Beck.
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After a Denton City Council decision on Tuesday, city staff will use money earmarked for future construction on Bonnie Brae Street to help cover millions in taxpayer funding for improvements to the animal shelter and Fire Stations 5 and 6, which have exceeded the amounts voters approved in the 2023 bond.
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The petition to recall Denton City Council member Brandon Chase McGee has failed after picking up steam in early November.
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He got in trouble for drugs the first time when he was in high school, and that charge haunted him after he graduated in 2019. He struggled to find good-paying jobs and decided to start selling marijuana again as a way to supplement his income after his child was born, to pay bills and put food on the table.
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The Denton City Council failed to reach majority consensus Tuesday afternoon to move forward with a couple of major recommendations by the citizen charter review committee that could have changed the council’s makeup and added two seats.
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Preserving the old Evers farmhouse, creating a garden or a wildlife education center for demonstrations to kids carrots and chickens don’t come from Kroger — all were possibilities discussed by the public last week for the remaining 10 acres of the Evers Farm not being developed into apartments.
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Austin-based Core Scientific has ditched its crypto mining plans in Denton and now will be dedicating 100% of its Denton data center to high-performance computing for artificial intelligence.
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City Manager Sara Hensley commissioned the review of Denton Animal Services by a consulting company, Shelter Savvy, after news of Gunner’s death led to a public uproar.
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An independent review of Denton Animal Services identified strengths, such as staff morale and open adoptions, and offered nearly two dozen recommendations to improve operations. Key suggestions included refining euthanasia protocols, eliminating formal dog behavior assessments and improving staff training.
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Brent Hagenbuch, the former chair of the Denton County Republican Party, pulled ahead of Democratic challenger Dale Frey in the Texas Senate District 30 race.
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Brandon Gill, a former investment banker who ran a pro-Trump site that perpetuated misinformation about the 2020 election, prevails in Texas district 26 race.