North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 116, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 27, 2019 Page: 2 of 6
This newspaper is part of the collection entitled: North Texas Daily / The Campus Chat and was provided to The Portal to Texas History by the UNT Libraries Special Collections.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
NEWS
THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 2019
NTDAILY.COM
Page 2
Citizens hear from
North Texas Daily
city engineer about
Editorial Board
construction timeline
TOWN HALL CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
Derek Foshee
Ad Design
Sebastian King
Business
Mixed reactions to new Starbucks construction
STARBUCKS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
Faculty Adviser
Veterans services and ROTC recieve $350,000 gift
NTDAILY.COM
EST. 1916
Visit us at ntdaily.com
L
Trump issues sanctions on Iran
Marketing Consultants
Hunter Coey
Designer/Copy Editor
Jordan Collard
Arts & Life Editor
Amy Roh
Opinion Editor
Rose Schacherer
Editor-in-Chief
Jelani Gibson
News Editor
Lizzy Spangler
Visuals Editor
Kara Dry
1y Jelani Gibson
@jelanigibson 1
By Jelani Gibson
@jelanigibson 1
Maj. Gen. Olinto Barsanti, who served
in the Army’s 101st Airborne Division.
“I believe the military is the future
of the country,” Bette said. “I believe
we cannot survive as a country without
a good, strong, educated military
and veterans. We are in debt to the
veterans that have served. We have an
obligation to help those who want to
serve.”
Robert’s parents served as faculty
members of UNT.
Below:Chris Tackett, former board of trustees member from Granbury,
Texas, speaks with attendees at a workshop about campaign finance during
an event hosted by the Denton County Democratic Party at the Denton
County Elections Administration Building in Denton, Texas on June 23,2019.
Victoria Gomez
11
North Texas Daily
1 PRINT • DIGITAL • TV* RADIO 1
To pitch a story or contact the
Editor-in-Chief, please email
northtexasdaily@unt.edu or call
(940) 565-3989
Advertising Specialist
Joey Selz
(940) 565-3989
Joey. Selz@unt. edu
Director
Adam Reese
(940) 565-4265
Adam.Reese@unt. edu
Gary Ghioto
(940) 891-6722
Gary. Ghioto@unt. edu
coffee shops provide a different level of products and
service to our customers.”
When it comes to location, McKibben said she
wonders why they did not place a Starbucks in the new
Welcome Center and the new dorm.
“It used to be that students filled the seats during
the school year,” McKibben said. “The main complaint
from potential customers that are not students is [that
there is] not enough parking in the area.”
At the end of the day, McKibben said an educated
consumer is a good thing, and that many individuals
have never experienced coffee or coffee drinks outside
of franchi se markets.
Bette Barsanti Sherman and Robert Sherman formalize their donation of $350,000 to The
University of North Texas veterans program and ROTC detachments at a signing ceremony in
the Gateway Center at UNT in Denton, Texas on June, 21,2019. Jelani Gibson
disrespect to raise money. They
are not based on issue ideology.”
Neither Empower Texans nor
House Speaker Bonnen’s office
returned requests for comment
before publication.
Tackett said voters need
to focus on what’s going to
happen in the primary elections
and learning about campaign
finance on the state level which
people for larger
Gas prices raise post
refinery explosion
An investigation began Monday into
the fire and explosions at Philadelphia
Energy Solutions from Friday morning.
Four workers were treated for minor
injuries and marks the second fire the
facility has had in June, according to
CBS. Gas futures jumped 4 percent and
natural gas rose 1 percent, according
to CNBC.
NEWS AROUND THE US
By Tiffany Martinez
2 Indiana Catholic schools under
controversy over gay teachers
The Cathedral High School announced
Sunday that it will “separate” with a
gay teacher in order to remain with the
Archdiocese of Indianapolis. It risked losing
its Catholic and nonprofit status, among other
things. East week, a Jesuit school refused to
fire a teacher in a same-sex marriage and
plans to appeal its stripped Catholic status,
according to The Washington Post.
President Donald Trump signed an
executive order Monday to enact “hard-
hitting” sanctions on Iran. The order will
deny financial support to Iran’s Supreme
Eeader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, his
office and others. The order follows a
“series of aggressive behaviors,” which
included a U.S. military drone shot down
last week.
The UNT veterans program and
ROTC detachments will have an
estimated $350,000 in donation and
endowment funding.
Bette Barsanti Sherman and her
husband Robert donated the money
June 21 and the bulk of it will be going
to helping out veterans and ROTC
graduates with financial hardships.
Bette is the daughter of U.S. Army
safety concerns regarding the construction and the time
periods along with them.
“We do recognize that construction puts a big impact on
everybody’s ability to get around,” Estes said. “It’s frustrating
to me too, 100%. But I can’t get a share of volume of bad
infrastructure done if we’re just going to keep trickling along
the pace of construction.”
The estimated time for project completion is unknown
but Meltzer encouraged patience among the people as
construction continues to develop.
“Let’s get through this together, so we can get to a better
place,” Meltzer said. “If you gave me a choice between roads
in really bad shape and fixing roads, I’m going to choose
fixing roads. The fixing does end and you end up with roads
in better shape. I know it’s frustrating, but I want us to get to
a place where Denton has decent roads.”
— which allows students to put money on their ID
cards and use them in shops around campus — works
and said students should be able to use those dollars at
off-campus establishments because she said it “would
be a great help to small retailors in Denton.”
Regarding competition, McKibben said that small,
independent coffee shops can’t really compete with
Starbucks or other franchised stores. McKibben said
when the Union Starbucks opened, her business lost
a significant percentage of sales compared to the
previous year.
“We just coexist with them,” she said. “Independent
For psychology junior Andie Thi-Streety,
practicality was a key selling point in the new
Starbucks.
“It’s easy to go right before class,” Thi-Streety said.
“It’s hard to study there for long because it can get
noisy and crowded.”
Education junior Serephina Martinez said she
thinks that while chains like Starbucks are more
accessible, she feels that people “prefer other chains
for the uniqueness and atmosphere.”
“I honestly don’t understand the need of another
Starbucks when they can just have a different brand
to give more variety of coffee choices,” Martinez said.
Children moved from reportedly
unsanitary border patrol station
The U.S. government has removed a
majority of migrant children Monday
from a Border Patrol Station near El
Paso, leaving 30 children at the facility,
according to The Associated Press. The
removal follows reports of over 300
children were reported to be detained
with inadequate food, water and
sanitation.
Miami police officer acquitted
of attempted manslaughter
A jury convicted a Miami police officer
last Monday of negligence for shooting
at an autistic man holding a toy truck.
Officer Jonathon Aledda was acquitted
for attempted manslaughter, according
to The Miami Herald. In 2016, Aledda
fired at the man, missing and injuring
therapist Charles Kinsey while on the
ground.
He also said receiving the money
was humbling.
“It was an honor for me just to be
sitting at that table,” he said. “Not so
I could feel big and important, it was
just that I was sitting up there next to
some very fine people. The Shermans
are very well known for their kindness
and generosity. I’d like to think that I
worked hard to convince them, but I
don’t think it took much convincing
because I think their heart was leaning
that way anyway, they’re just those
type of people.”
Having additional funding for an
ROTC program will also make it more
accessible and improve the retention
rates, Davenport said.
“A lot of people drop out of ROTC
due to finances,” he said. “ROTC is
not as easy as people think it is. A lot
of those kids are down there working
jobs and going to school at night and
trying to hold it all together. It’s a great
opportunity for them.”
Davenport said the increase in
funding is about helping others get
help.
“We help people for the right
reasons for the right things,” he said.
“Now we can help more.”
“A lot of the names on buildings here
were people who were on the faculty
when I was growing up here, [they]
lived across the street or lived next
door,” he said.
Student Veteran Services director
Jim Davenport said the gift will
help veterans who are in financial
emergencies.
“The car has broken down, the VA
doesn’t pay them, or their financial
aid is hung up, if they’re unemployed
— there’s some things where we can
give them a couple of hundred dollars
or $1,000 to get the car back on the
road so they can get to class, to make
up for the payments that the VA hasn’t
made [or] their book stipend,” he said.
“We can give them money for that.”
Davenport said last-minute
financial emergencies can happen in a
variety of situations.
Since many veterans tend to come
to college at an older age with families,
the slightest financial emergency could
set them back, Davenport said.
“They end up having to relocate,”
Davenport said. “There’s a lot of
relocation expenses [so] they use their
savings to do that [or] something out
of the blue hits them - that’s enough to
sink the ship.”
In an event hosted by the
Denton Democrats on Sunday,
Chris Tackett, a former board
of trustees member for the
Granbury Independent School
District, gave a workshop
on campaign finance in the
Denton County Elections
Administration Building.
While Tackett has a full-time
job, he spends his spare time
compiling a detailed database
on state politics spending.
Following in the footsteps of
national-level data collectors
such as the National Institute
on Money in Politics’ Follow
The Money and the Center
for Responsive Politics’ Open
Secrets website, Tackett’s
large datasets differ in that he
links the state’s biggest money
contributors and the multiple
Political Action Committees
(PAC) they form.
Diving into the data of
campaign finances is something
that brings insight into power
dynamics in politics, Tackett
said.
“Understanding why, diving
into the money, it turned a light
bulb on for me in understanding
‘oh my gosh so this is what it
is,”’ he said. “When I started
sharing how amazed I was,
and how horrified I was by it,
I started writing about it. As I
wrote about it, it touched other
people and they said ‘what
about my person,’ so I wrote
about their people. Now I have
an entire database.”
Workshops explaining the
data behind politics help all
constituents, said Denton
County Democratic Party chair
Anjelita Cadena.
“It’s a lot of different
information and it takes a lot
Denton Democrats host
campaign finance event
to put it together like Chris
did, and not everybody can do
it,” she said. “We can see who’s
donating to these people, but
to start linking all of the PACs
together like he did, that takes
more thought.”
Tackett spent a sizable
portion of his presentation
talking about the influence of
multiple PACs that are funded
and controlled by the same
group of contributors.
One of the most influential
throughout the state is
Empower Texans, Tackett said.
“I ran [data on] 150 house
races, 37 Senate races all over
the statewide races, the only
real pattern you can see, the
only thing that is definitive, is
ET [Empower Texans],” he said.
“When you look at ET
individually, they’re not huge,”
Tackett said. “They’re big, but
they’re not everything. Then
you start to understand who’s
behind them and all of the other
PACs that they’re driving, it’s
scary stuff.”
Recently, ET was at odds
with Republican leadership
in the most recent legislative
session for a perceived failure
to pass more conservative bills
while Texas House Speaker
Dennis Bonnen is critical of the
group.
“I am incredibly comfortable
with my conservative record,”
Bonnen said to multiple
reporters after the 86th
Legislative Session. “But more
significantly, they are a group
that you are fooling yourself
and you are not respecting
your constituents. You are not
respecting this institution if
you are chasing their wants
and their desires because you
will never meet their wants and
their desires. They are a group
that is based on attacks and
prepares
analysis.
“To me, the more you
understand what’s happening,
that’s the only way you can fight
it,” he said. “If you’re tackling
each one of these PACs, each one
of these candidates individually,
you can’t get ahead of it.”
Helping citizens understand
complicated data is important
for the political process, Tackett
said.
“You can arm your
candidates, you can arm your
community,” he said.
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Matching Search Results
View one place within this issue that match your search.Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Gibson, Jelani. North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 116, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 27, 2019, newspaper, June 27, 2019; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1281514/m1/2/?q=%22led+zeppelin%22: accessed June 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.