In September, the city of Denton experienced shifts in its housing market compared to September 2025. According to year-over-year data from the MetroTex Association of Realtors, the city saw the following real estate trends:

• An overall increase in the median home sales price
• An increase in the number of homes on the market
• More than 115 homes sold during the month

Luxie Living, a home goods shop with an emphasis on artisan glassware, moved to a larger brick-and-mortar location off Locust Street at the beginning of September.

The details: The store is located in a carriage house on the same property as owner Melinda King’s other business, Red Door Operations. Luxie Living originally was inside the main house on the property in a small room, which King said was for inventory for her online store.

The carriage house holds a variety of distinctive glassware sets and pieces from Rose Ann Hall Designs, which are handblown and etched. King also created specially designed mahjong tiles that she calls “MahjArt,” candles, beaded bags and totes, cards and other home gifts.

King said customers must make an appointment to shop in the carriage house, but she said she is in the area “all the time” and has a very flexible schedule to accommodate shoppers.

In July, Texas' top elected officials directed most state agencies, appellate courts and public universities to cut spending by 3% in their base budget requests for the next two years.

The overview: Gov. Greg Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and House Speaker Dustin Burrows said those reductions will help Texas hold a "strong fiscal position" by expanding property tax relief and maintaining public education funding when the legislature returns to Austin next year.

The issue: Dozens of agency leaders have warned that the cuts, totaling hundreds of millions of dollars, are not sustainable. They would cause Texas residents to lose "essential" services and lead to losses in state revenue, leaders said at the capitol and in budget documents.

Government institutions protesting the budget reductions include the comptroller's office, the attorney general, Texas' Cancer Prevention and Research Institute, state criminal justice agencies and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.