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Letters to the Editor - The Republican Party, Texas Legislature, Parkland caregivers, Rep. Van Taylor, McKinney mayor, Sen. Ted Cruz
Readers defend the Republican Party, worry about Texas Legislature being fair in redistricting, praise Parkland’s caregivers, appreciate what Van Taylor and Mayor George Fuller are doing for McKinney and claim wrong actions should have consequences.
From left, nurses Kelsey O’Meara, Noelle Hackfeld, and Joanna Pless review an intubated COVID-19 patient’s oxygen levels at the Tactical Care Unit at Parkland Hospital on Feb. 10, 2021, in Dallas.(Lynda M. González / Staff Photographer)
GOP not that divided
More Texans have received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine than the total number of Texans who have tested positive for the coronavirus since the pandemic started.
McKinney financial firm more than doubling headquarters with new construction
Independent Financial is expanding its 2-year-old campus in Craig Ranch.
Independent Financial has started work on a second building on State Highway 121 in McKinney.(Independent Financial )
McKinney-based Independent Financial has broken ground on the second phase of its headquarters campus.
The addition to the project at McKinney’s Craig Ranch will more than double the size of the banking firm’s head office operations.
“The completion of the second building will allow us to bring all of our Independent Financial corporate employees together in one location, improve operations and recruit premier-level talent,” David Brooks, Independent Financial chairman and CEO, said in a statement. “We have experienced strong growth in recent years, and it had become readily apparent that it was time to expand our campus.”
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McKinney Mayor George Fuller said the situation was a result of a legal requirement in the city charter that says councilmembers must live inside the district they serve.
At the meeting, Fuller told Thornton that he knew he believed he was a District 1 resident and had been before redistricting.
City Secretary Empress Drane addressed council members Tuesday night, saying it was her responsibility to confirm the residency of an appointed or elected city council member and that she had made a regrettable mistake. This was not a mistake or error with any harmful intent or any misleading intent. But it was really an honest mistake or oversight, she said.