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Vol. 112, No. 346 / 24 pages, 3 sections
Wednesday, July 13, 2016
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Protest letters absent
KEY WORDS
We digitized the 600 protest letters submitted for the June 7 public hearing so they could
be machine-read and analyzed. We used Document Cloud and Overview, new analytic tools
developed for journalists, to create a word cloud — a visualization of key words the
writers used in their letters to City Council members. The complete text of the letters can
be viewed online at DentonRC.com.
City turns over 600
but 300 forms didn’t
go through secretary
ONLINE: View 600 letters in protest of DME’s plan/DentonRC.com
ies of the first 300 letters that were sub-
mitted in December.
Tara linn Hunter, with the Denton
Drilling Awareness Group, delivered
the first 300 letters on Dec. 14. The let-
ters were addressed to specific council
members, Hunter said. She asked that
the letters be delivered to the council
members they were addressed to.
“They were not submitted to this of-
fice,” Walters wrote in an email.
The Denton City Council was deeply
divided when it accepted a recommen-
dation from Denton Municipal Electric
for the city’s future energy purchases
this month. DME will buy more renew-
able energy from wind and solar farms,
but it also plans to buy 12 natural gas
engines and build a power plant to
make and sell electricity to the Texas
grid. The plan ostensibly allows Denton
to walk away from its partnership in a
coal-fired power plant near Bryan but
doesn’t assure the coal plant will be
closed. In addition, the gas engines and
the power plant to house them, are ex-
pected to cost $265 million, the city’s
largest-ever capital equipment pur-
chase.
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Staff Writer
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City officials are having a hard time
getting their hands on about a third of
the 900 letters sent to protest a new
gas-fired power plant.
In June, the Denton Record-Chron-
icle requested copies of all 900 letters.
City Secretary Jennifer Walters pro-
duced copies of about 600 letters that
were submitted in June. She forwarded
the newspaper’s request to City Council
members to see if anyone still had cop-
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By Jenna Duncan
Staff Writer
jduncan@dentonrc.com
With a new job, Nancy Hong
hopes to expedite her career goal —
help create 100,000 jobs.
Hong is now the director of stu-
dent programs at Texas Woman’s
University’s center
for women in busi-
ness after leading
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University of North
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President Barack Obama and others sing “Battle Hymn of the Republic” at the end of Tuesday’s interfaith memorial service for five fallen
police officers at Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas. In the front row, from left, are Jill Biden, Vice President Joe Biden, Laura Bush, former
President George Bush, Michelle Obama, Barack Obama, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings and wife Micki, Dallas Police Chief David Brown and
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and people gave
me jobs, so this is
my payback,” said Hong, who was
born in Cambodia to Chinese par-
ents during the Vietnam War.
While at UNT, she co-founded
the Innovation Greenhouse, a co-
working space with support for stu-
dents looking to start businesses
across all disciplines. She coached
students for competitions, orga-
nized startup weekends and han-
dled other technology-driven
events.
Her office also had the sign “Wel-
come to the entitlement-free zone”
to let everyone know they needed to
work hard to get a business going.
“If nothing else, when I cross
Hong
OPEN HEARTS
Presidents, chiefs, police, families gather to remember slain officers
local officials who ranged from black Police Chief
David Brown to former President George W.
Bush, a Dallas resident.
Obama sought to reassure the nation he un-
Americans rattled by a week of violence and pro- white police officers killed last week by a black derstands the impact of the unsettling events of
tests to find “open hearts” and new empathy Tues- man seeking vengeance for police killings. Behind the past week — including the killing of two black
day in a speech that seesawed between honoring him, underscoring his message of unity: Dallas
police officers for their bravery and decrying racial police officers, a racially diverse church choir and See MEMORIAL on 14A
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and Kathleen Hennessey
Associated Press
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Obama stood next to five empty chairs for the
DALLAS — President Barack Obama urged
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