Christian McPhate | Denton Record-Chronicle
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Free Palestine Denton members and supporters packed City Hall to demand that the Denton City Council consider a resolution supporting a ceasefire in Gaza during Tuesday night’s meeting.
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Decriminalize Denton, a local nonprofit, filed a petition of intervention on Monday, making it a defendant in Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Jan. 31 lawsuit against Denton. The organization seeks to have Paxton’s lawsuit dismissed on the grounds that it has no legal standings, according to a Feb. 5 press release.
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Last Saturday afternoon’s peace rally was one of several events that have taken place in Denton to raise awareness of the Palestinians’ plight in Gaza.
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Augustus Bailey and his dog Macy saw Mayor Gerard Hudspeth in his dark cowboy hat, black trench coat and snakeskin boots and approached him on the Square to talk with him about being homeless in Denton on Monday.
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Naloxone could soon be available at festivals in Denton if a majority of City Council members agree to partner with a nonprofit during their next meeting in February.
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“We care. You are special. We value you.” These are words that people who experience homelessness don’t hear often enough, Alva Santos, the chief operations officer at Our Daily Bread, Together with Monsignor King Outreach Center, said in a news release from Texas Health Resources.
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Attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas call the criminal case against the leaders of PRO Gainesville, a local grassroots organization, a “pivotal case for free speech rights in Texas,” according to a news release this week.
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The 2024 spring election filing period opened Wednesday morning at the Denton city secretary’s office with the mayor and two at-large City Council seats on the ballot.
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A small rally in support of Denton council member Brandon Chase McGee’s proposed fair-chance hiring ordinance didn’t sway City Council members to vote in its favor at a special-called council meeting Tuesday.
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In the report, the city attorney’s office was responding to a request by McGee, who wanted a breakdown of attorney fees that the city had incurred since 2021. The breakdown revealed that the most the city has spent was $1.3 million in fiscal year 2022-23.
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