June 15, 2020 Dallas County officials reported 305 more cases of the coronavirus Monday, the county’s sixth straight day of at least 300 new positive tests. The county also reported that another resident has died from COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus: a Dallas man in his 60s who did not have underlying health […]
June 15, 2020 Dallas County Community College District has received approval from its regional accrediting body for a plan that combines the district’s seven colleges into one. The unified institution, called Dallas College, will encompass Brookhaven, Cedar Valley, Eastfield, El Centro, Mountain View, North Lake and Richland, which will now be referred to as campuses […]
June 15, 2020 As coronavirus cases and hospitalizations rise in Dallas County and throughout the state, restaurant owners are grappling with how to run their newly reopened dining rooms as the virus spreads among restaurant workers. Zoli’s NY Pizza in Addison, Cane Rosso in Carrollton, Bombshells along Stemmons Freeway and Al Biernat’s on Spring Valley […]
June 15, 2020 Dallas County started accepting pre-applications Monday for its Emergency Business Assistance Program (EBAP). EBAP is funded with an allocation of $5 million in federal CARES Act dollars and is designed to rapidly provide financial assistance to small businesses located in Dallas County that have been adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and […]
June 15, 2020 The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a landmark civil rights law protects LGBT people from discrimination in employment, a resounding victory for LGBT rights from a conservative court. The court decided by a 6-3 vote that a key provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 known as Title VII that bars […]
June 15, 2020 Although U.S. employment will increase in the coming months, the jobless rate will remain elevated through the end of the year, said Robert Kaplan, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. “We’re on our way down right now,” Kaplan said Sunday in an interview on CBS’s Face the Nation. “We’re going […]
June 12, 2020 With tens of thousands of families and employees waiting for answers on what next school year might look like, Dallas ISD administrators couldn’t offer much in the way of guarantees on Thursday, during the board of trustees’ final scheduled briefing of the 2019-20 academic year. The district is waiting on the Texas […]
June 14, 2020 The following is a transcript of an interview with Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Robert Kaplan that aired Sunday, June 14, 2020, on “Face the Nation.” MARGARET BRENNAN: Robert Kaplan is head of the Dallas Federal Reserve, one of the 12 banks that make up that system. Good morning to you. FEDERAL […]
June 12, 2020 Gov. Greg Abbott didn’t predict that the number of COVID-19 cases would fall as the state allowed businesses and cultural centers to reopen. In fact, he said allowing more people back into public places could increase the spread of infection. And so it has, with several of what the governor has called […]
June 12, 2020 Customers are a welcome sight for business owners who are trying to navigate through the coronavirus outbreak and subsequent state orders. On Friday, Governor Abbott’s Phase 3 of the Open Texas plan will allow restaurants to open their doors to 75 percent of capacity. WFAA met with Dallas Hale, who has 12 […]