Today’s editorial in the Denton Record-Chronicle lamented the turn-out of Saturday’s city council election. Citing only the city-wide turn-out, the editorialist failed to recognize a positive trend emerging out of the District 1 voter stats. We do not yet know specific voter demographic data from those who came out to vote on election day, but there are hopeful signs from an analysis of the early voting stats of that one district.
← Continue Reading This Articleexas Women’s University is moving forward with an aggressive expansion plan that aims at slowly, but surely dismantling an entire historic neighborhood to the West of the university and taking out a large portion of another to the East.
← Continue Reading This ArticleThis entire issue sheds light on the problem of a decision-making process that tends to treat otherwise connected issues in isolation from one another. Sure, the city council tonight technically addressed some of the concerns raised by the neighborhood critics concerning this tower. But there is a larger narrative at play with this A-Train issue that runs beneath the surface of this specific neighborhood fight. The fact is that the SE Denton neighborhood, more than any other Denton neighborhood, has bore the brunt of the issues relating to the upcoming A-Train.
← Continue Reading This ArticleA narrative flows silently under the surface, still waiting to be recognized and understood. Consider 35 Conferette’s founder and Creative Director Chris Flemmon’s insistence on a downtown festival. Before crowd size and logistical concerns moved the Midlake and Flaming Lips showcase a mile away to the North Texas Fairgrounds, last year’s vision insisted on this as well. This vision for an urban-centric Conferette has been questioned from all corners…
← Continue Reading This ArticleThe importance our society places on education tends to distract us from an underlying societal confusion as to its purpose. We are fond of talking about the means of education: how should we use technology? is standardized testing beneficial? are public schools succeeding? what courses should be taught? and so on… But it seems such questions are merely secondary to the primary consideration of the “end” of education.
Continue Reading This Article →The American Public Schools have become a favorite scape-goat as of late for a plethora of societal problems. So much so that calls are rising from all ends of the political spectrum to slowly place the responsibility of universal education into the hands of the private sector. The idea of a universal public education is perhaps one of the loftiest experiments in modern history. As such, an examination of its successes and failures seems in order.
Continue Reading This Article →Long before 322 Texas Street began hosting Drink and Thinks, this living room was home to something quite similar…
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