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Vol. 114, No. 231 / 28 pages, 4 sections
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
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Denton, Texas
Amid promise of leads, threats remain in Austin
Police said they don’t believe it was the work of
a copycat and that such military items are some-
times mistakenly donated to Goodwill instead of
being properly disposed of.
“We put all the donations we get in a big card-
board box. [The worker] pulled something out in
a bag, completely normal, and the device went off,”
Gary Davis, president and CEO of Goodwill Texas,
said as he stood outside a police barrier huddling
with other employees.
“In this town, if an incendiary device goes off,
everybody just scatters and panics. Were all on
edge.”
Police: Goodwill explosion
unrelated to serial bombings
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By Paul J. Weber and Will Weissert
Associated Press
AUSTIN — Investigators pursuing a suspected
serial bomber in the Texas capital faced new
threats along with the promise of valuable new
leads as their attention shitted Tuesday to a FedEx
shipping center near San Antonio where a package
exploded and the discovery of another, unexplod-
ed bomb near Austin’s airport.
Even as they pored through surveillance video
footage and collected evidence hoping to get closer
to h acking down whoever is behind the blasts that
have killed two people and seriously wounded four
others, a Tuesday night scare caused them to swift-
ly respond to a Goodwill store in the southern part
of Austin. It turned out to be an unrelated explo-
sion: Someone dropped off a device sometimes
used in military training and it went off and in-
jured a worker.
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The blast reminded Shahla Mohnandshaw,
who grew up in Afghanistan before moving to the
U.S. in 2012, of home. Mohnandshaw, whose hus-
band works at the Goodwill, was doing laundry at
her apartment complex nearby when she heard
helicopters and raced toward the store.
“I was raised on these bombings. I know the
feeling of how it feels and how it hurts,” she said,
Eric Gay/AP
People evacuate Tuesday as emergency vehicles stage near the site of another explosion in
Austin.
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Officials
request
time to
fix policy
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Denton ISD agree grading
system needs work
By Caitlyn Jones
Staff Writer
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The controversial grading policy will
stay in Denton ISD, but administrators
acknowledged Tuesday night that it
could use some tweaking.
DISD Area Superintendent Susan-
nah O’Bara and Dan Ford, executive di-
rector of curriculum and instruction,
gave an update during a regular school
board meeting about the district’s
“standards-based” grading policy,
which went into effect in 2014.
Under the policy, middle and high
school students can redo major tests or
papers (except semester exams) within
10 days of the due date if they attend tu-
toring or complete extra learning as-
signments. Homework and daily work
aren't graded and students aren't penal-
ized in the grade book for behavioral is-
sues, like poor attendance or not turn-
ing in work.
The district defended the change,
saying the new policy allows students to
truly master learning concepts, even if it
takes them a little longer than their
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Denton resident Laura Lewis, who has been blind for two years, works out on an elliptical Tuesday afternoon at the MLKJr. Recreation Center.
She is one of 89 percent of Denton County residents who live near a park or recreational facility, according to data in the County Health
Rankings & Roadmaps, which ranked Denton County No. 1 in health outcomes in the state.
Denton County residents rank among healthiest in the state
est fitness room even without her vi-
sion. And with accommodations
from recreation center staff, she
knows exactly where the weights and
machines are.
“It’s been easier [to exercise] here,
because I had called Planet Fitness
and they didn’t know what to do
when I told them I was blind,” she
said before stepping on an elliptical
Tuesday afternoon.
Lewis is among 89 percent of all
By Julian Gill
Staff Writer
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Denton resident Laura Lewis has
been blind for two years, but she still
makes a point to work out twice a day
at the MLK Jr. Recreation Center.
Lewis, who said she’s been diag-
nosed with a rare eye disease, said
she no longer needs her probing cane
at her favorite workout spot in the
city. She knows how to find the mod-
Denton County residents who live
near a public park or recreation cen-
ter, according to national health sta-
tistics in the 2018 County Health
Rankings & Roadmaps report.
Compiled by the Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation and the Uni-
versity of Wisconsin Population
Health Institute, the report ranks
Denton County No. 1 in the state in
overall health outcomes, which in-
cludes length and quality of life.
While air pollution in Denton
County continuously remains above
state and national averages, county
residents are less likely to suffer a
premature death (before the age of
75) compared to the rest of the state,
according to the data in the report.
The county also is among the top
performers in the nation when it
comes to residents who report poor
peers.
But some community members re-
mained skeptical four years later.
“If you want to see how the grading
system is working, all we need to do is
talk to college professors and ask them
See HEALTH on 13A
See GRADING on 10A
Council weighs input for ethics ordinance
City leaders mull over
additional disclosure
requirements
TODAY
IN DENTON
NATIONAL
A teenager armed with a
handgun shot and crit-
ically wounded a girl at a
Maryland school Tuesday.
The shooter was killed by
a school resource officer.
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election. The document got its first full public
hearing Tuesday night.
Denton resident Ken Gold told council
members why he felt disclosure was impor-
tant.
“You maybe a business partner with them in
another LLC,” Gold said. “Maybe you’re in-
volved in two or three of the LLCs. I’d like to
know that tins is your business partner.
“This kind of disclosure is important,
whether it’s bias or an appearance of bias,” he
added.
In other words, council members should dis-
close business relationships that didn’t require
them to recuse themselves from the discussion
and vote, Gold said.
He knew he was pushing for something that
might be too difficult to achieve, but he felt that
other cities, particularly San Marcos, had done
a good job of requiring fuller disclosure of coun-
cil members.
‘There’s a difference between full disclosure
and a threshold for recusal,” Gold said. “With-
out full disclosure, I don’t see that you have a
relationship with the person coming before
you.”
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Low: 46
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By Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe
Staff Writer
pheinkel-wolfe@dentonrc.com
The Denton Gty Council will weigh addi-
tional disclosure requirements as part of the
city’s first ethics ordinance, a move that fol-
lowed both a public comment period and a pub-
lic hearing Tuesday night.
City leaders have been working for several
months on the new rules following a mandate
put forth by Denton voters in the November
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For example, Gold said, a business may
come to the city for a zoning change or econom-
ic incentive.
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COMICS & PUZZLES
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FOCUS ON EDUCATION 5A-6A
A council member may not have a financial
interest in that particular business, but may
have another relationship with the business
owners who are partners in a half-dozen differ-
ent limited liability corporations (LLC).
4A
MONEY & MARKETS
13A
OBITUARIES
12A
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WEATHER
See ETHICS on 13A
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