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cheon and Briefing moderated by Den-
ton County Judge Mary Horn on Friday
afternoon. State Reps. Lynn Stucky,
Ron Simmons, Pat Fallon, Tan Parker
and state Sen. Craig Estes — all Repub-
licans — served on a panel at the event,
hosted by the Denton Chamber of
Commerce and held at the University of
North Texas Gateway Center.
“There were 20 items on the special
session agenda and about half of those
directly or indirectly impacted local
control issues and the decision-making
of local governments, that being cities,
counties and school districts,” Bur-
roughs asked. “How do you feel about
the general relationship of decision-
making by local elected officials versus
its relationship to the state?”
Eveiy state official except Stucky an-
swered the question on stage. While
some offered different examples of state
legislation overriding local ordinances,
such as the fracking issue in Denton or
the ride-hailing issue in Austin, all
agreed that the state is there to keep lo-
cal governments in check.
“The best government is the govern-
ment closest to the people,” Simmons
said. “Sometimes we have to make sure
local governments aren’t getting out-
side the realm of what they’re called up-
on to do either.”
Although he didn’t answer during
County’s lawmakers
talk about their work
at the Capitol this year
By Caitlyn Jones
Staff Writer
cjones@dentonrc.com
Four state House representatives
and one state senator, all representing
Denton County, told a room lull of busi-
ness owners and other elected officials
that the balance between state and local
control is delicate.
The discussion came after former
Denton Mayor Mark Burroughs posed
a question during a Legislative Lun-
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State Rep. Lynn Stucky, R-Denton, speaks about his first year as a law-
maker during the Denton Chamber of Commerce’s Legislative Lunch and
Briefing on Friday.
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Students in
GOAL (Guys
and Girls
Operating As
Leaders) play
on a new
soccer pitch
with FC Dal-
las players
during a dedi-
cation cere-
mony Thurs-
day at Strick-
land Middle
School. The
pitch was
donated
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By Kevin Krause
The Dallas Morning News
When two Dallas men began buying
up land along Interstate 35E in Denton
County it seemed foolish to longtime
landowners there. They were used to
bogus rumors about the state’s massive
highway widening project finally get-
ting underway, so the investments may
have seemed risky.
But Wade Blackburn and Kevin
Bollman had something no one else
had — a contact inside the Texas De-
partment of Transportation who would
help them sell to the state, prosecutors
say. The scheme netted them $12.9 mil-
lion in sales from the state, according to
prosecutors.
On Thursday, Blackburn was sen-
tenced to one year and one day in feder-
al prison under an agreement with the
U.S. attorney’s office.
U.S. District Judge Marcia A. Crone
also ordered Blackburn to pay $1 mil-
lion in restitution to TxDOT as part of
the agreement. Blackburn pleaded
guilty in April to one count of conspira-
cy to commit mail fraud in connection
with the land deals.
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GOAL program gifted soccer
pitch, where ‘everyone’s equal’
Major League Soccer team FC Dallas, Girls Operating As Leaders, is in its
Southern New Hampshire University ninth year of operation and targets
and CoServ. After the presentation cer- English language learners and at-risk
emony, FC Dallas players, many of students,
whom grew up in the Dallas-Fort
Worth area, and their bull mascot Tex for kids who feel disconnected,” Bras-
Hooper challenged kids to a match on
the red-and-blue plastic field.
The pitch is just the latest addition to connect is language. Maybe it’s income,
the Denton ISD GOAL program. The But everyone’s equal on the soccer
program, which stands for Guys and pitch.”
GOAL started as a lunchtime en-
richment program at McMath Middle
School. Ice was a teacher there and
bonded with 23 at-risk boys over soccer.
“Between them, they racked up 90
office referrals, seven citations from po-
lice and extended placements at Davis
[School, the district’s disciplinary alter-
native campus],” Ice said. ‘After a year,
By Caitlyn Jones
Staff Writer
cjones@dentonrc.com
Strickland Middle School students
chased after a soccer ball under the
glow of street lights Thursday evening.
To be fair, they had to wait for the adults
to get out of the way before they could
start playing on their brand-new pitch.
The $40,000 pitch was donated to
the school through a partnership with
This creates a new level of buy-in
well High School teacher and GOAL
founder Chris Ice said. “Maybe the dis-
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By William Booth, Karla Adam
and Rick Noack
The Washington Post
LONDON — Police in London
were searching for the assailant
who detonated a homemade
bomb Friday that sent a scorching
blast of flame and smoke through
a London subway car, injuring at
least 29 rush-hour commuters
and sending panicked crowds
scrambling for safety in what po-
lice called a terrorist incident.
As of Friday evening, authori-
ties had given no details on possi-
ble suspects. Security measures
were tightened across London’s
vast mass-transit network, and the
government described the threat
level as critical, meaning another
attack could be imminent.
British media reported that the
crude device, carried in a bucket
and shoved into a shopping bag,
had a timer, suggesting that some
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degree of bombmaking knowledge website. Experts cautioned that Tube is bound to rekindle pointed
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