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Vol. 113, No. 50 / 34 pages, 4 sections
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
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Denton, Texas
Council approves land purchase for plant
plant would put the city-owned utility
in the driver’s seat to negotiate the best
rate for renewable energy contracts.
“We can sign long-term contracts to
bring rate stability to our ratepayers,”
Williams said.
Electric rates have risen the past sev-
eral years for DME customers even as
renewable energy has been driving
electric costs down in Texas.
DME plans to be making and selling
electricity with the new power plant by
summer 2018. And it plans to get 70
percent of its electricity from wind and
Tuesday’s
Denton City
Council
meeting was
packed as
the Renew-
able Denton
Plan was
discussed,
as well as a
property tax
increase and
other topics.
Construction contract,
gas engine deal still in
air as meeting runs late
Latest coverage/DentonRC.com
the plant — $115 million for 340 acres
west of Denton Enterprise Airport.
As of press time, the council had not
voted on the construction contract for
the plant or the purchase of its 12 natu-
ral gas engines.
Mayor Chris Watts and council
members Keely Briggs and Sara Bagh-
eri all opposed the land purchase.
Council members Kathleen Wazny,
Kevin Roden, Dalton Gregory and Joey
Hawkins voted yes.
Denton Municipal Electric’s general
manager Phil Williams said the new
By Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe
Staff Writer
pheinkel-wolfe @ dentonrc. com
A proposal to build a $265 million,
natural gas-fired power plant, dubbed
the Denton Energy Center, started to
squeak by a deeply divided City Council
late Tuesday night.
By a vote of 4-3, the council ap-
proved purchasing the land needed for
Tomas Gonzalez
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officials expect ozone
levels high enough today
to affect people with
health concerns, young
children and the elderly.
Conserve energy and
limit driving.
Vandagriff, Bryant met
the previous night at
Fry Street Public House
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By Jenna Duncan
Staff Writer
jduncan@dentonrc.com
An arrest affidavit for Charles Dean
Bryant, who is suspected of killing 24-
year-old Texas Woman’s University stu-
dent Jacqueline Vanda-
griff, and other court
documents shed fight on
the alleged murderer
Tuesday.
Police said Vanda-
griff’s body was found
on fire the morning of
Sept. 14 at a park near
Grapevine Lake.
Bryant, 30, was ar-
rested Sunday near his
home in Haslet on a war-
rant for violating a pro-
tective order and was
charged with capital
murder the following
day, with bail set at $1
million.
The two met at Fry Street Public
House near the University of North Texas
campus the night before she was found
dead, according to the affidavit. Bryant
and Vandagriff then went to another bar
in the area, Shots & Crafts, before the two
were seen on security footage leaving to-
gether.
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LOCAL
More than 60 nonprofit
groups will be stationed
on the Courthouse on the
Square lawn Thursday
for Denton Giving Day.
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A city worker operates quickly to turn off a water valve Tuesday to stop water from coming out near East
McKinney Street and North Bell Avenue.
NATIONAL
Vandagriff
Bombing suspect Ah-
mad Khan Rahami was
Texas leads lawsuit over overtime pay rules
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charged Tuesday with
planting a series of ex-
plosives in New York
and New Jersey
sodation of Business, the
U.S. Chamber of Com-
merce and other business
leaders filed a similar law-
suit later in the day.
The new regulations
— which go into effect in
December — raise the
overtime
threshold to $47,476 per year from
$23,660 per year. Administration officials
have estimated that the change could ben-
efit more than 4 million Americans — and
hundreds of thousands of Texans.
But both lawsuits accuse the Obama
administration of overreach, with Pax-
ton calling the new rules part of a “rad-
ical leftist agenda.”
“Once again, President Obama is try-
ing to unilaterally rewrite the law,” he said.
“And this time, it may lead to disastrous
consequences for our economy.”
Labor Secretary Thomas Perez issued a
statement saying he is “confident in the le-
gality of all aspects of our final overtime
rule.”
Paxton: Regulations part
of ‘radical leftist agenda’
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By Tom Benning
The Dallas Morning News
tbenning@ dallasnews.com
WASHINGTON - Texas is playing
the leading role in a double-barreled legal
challenge issued by state officials and busi-
ness groups against the White House’s ef-
fort to make millions more Americans eli-
gible for overtime pay.
Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tues-
day led 21 states in suing the U.S. Labor De-
partment over the new overtime rules in a
federal district court in Texas. The Texas As-
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“Despite the sound legal and policy
footing on which the rule is constructed,
the same interests that have stood in the
way of middle-class Americans getting
paid when they work extra are continuing
their obstructionist tactics,” he said.
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The U.N. announced
Tuesday it was suspend-
ing overland aid deliver-
ies in Syria, jeopardizing
food and medical securi-
ty for millions of be-
sieged and hard-to-reach
civilians.
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Argyle parents voice concern
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perintendent Telena Wright said.
But for the six parents who spoke dur-
ing Monday night’s open forum, the con-
tent and language were too graphic for
their U- and 12-year-old children.
“I thought it [TrasK] was a really good
book,” said parent Amy Fanning. “But it’s
not appropriate for that age level.”
Most of the parents said they should be
the ones to teach children about tough
concepts, not the school system.
Trash, which students read over the
summer, follows the story of Raphael, a 14-
year-old boy who fives in a Third World
country and stumbles upon widespread
governmental corruption.
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as inappropriate for
students in 6th grade
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By Caitlyn Jones
Staff Writer
cjones @ dentonrc.com
Several parents spoke out against two
required readings during the Argyle
school board meeting Monday, citing dis-
turbing and inappropriate content.
The two books in question, Trash by
Andy Mulligan and Iqbal by Francesco
D’Adamo, are in this year’s sixth-grade les-
son plans to promote cross-curriculum
reading, district officials said.
“The readings go along with world cul-
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Several Argyle parents voiced their concerns Monday to the Argyle school
board about their sixth-grade children being assigned to read “Iqbal” by Fran-
cesco D’Adamo and “Trash” by Andy Mulligan. The parents say the books con-
tain content inappropriate for 11- and 12-year-olds.
See BOOKS on 11A
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