Amazon will offer a majority of the workers it’s hired in Texas during the coronavirus pandemic full-time positions in customer fulfillment and last mile delivery roles, the company announced Thursday. More than 8,800 out of 14,400 new Amazon workers in Texas will be offered full-time positions beginning in June. A spokesperson for the company declined […]
May 28, 2020 Texas reported the largest single-day number of new coronavirus cases Thursday, though health officials attributed the surge to increased testing at prisons, which have become hot spots, and test results from the holiday weekend just now coming in. Texas reported 1,855 more cases of the new coronavirus Thursday, bringing the total number […]
May 28, 2020 The Dallas City Council on Wednesday allocated $10 million to conduct testing for COVID-19 in the city, providing a parachute for two community-based sites that would no longer receive federal support after June. The unanimous vote approved an interlocal agreement with the county to split the costs of testing in the area, […]
May 28, 2020 Dallas-based Southwest Airlines will fly an aggressive schedule in November and December that anticipates as many flights as the carrier put in the sky during the same period in 2019. Southwest published its schedule for the last two months of the year on Thursday, adding a handful of new routes to mid-sized […]
May 28, 2020 In a new proclamation, Gov. Greg Abbott announced that fans will be allowed at outdoor professional sporting events in most Texas counties with limited occupancy, under a new expansion of his most recent wave of economic reopenings. Starting Friday, all Texans counties – excluding Deaf Smith, El Paso, Moore, Potter and Randall […]
May 27, 2020 In this new COVID-19 world, activities that were once routine in the public sphere now come with a level of risk that must be measured and considered. Although many businesses have reopened in Texas, there is a divergence between permitted activities like eating out at restaurants and what medical professionals currently deem […]
May 28, 2020 More than 1 in 4 U.S. workers have lost their jobs since the coronavirus crisis shut down much of the economy in March. Just last week, another 2.1 million people filed for unemployment benefits, the Labor Department said Thursday. That’s down 323,000 from the previous week but brings the total for the […]
May 28, 2020 It’s been almost four weeks since local restaurants were able to reopen for dine-in service, and according to owners, business has generally been better than expected. Still, like some customers who would prefer to continue ordering take-out over dining in, some employees have declined an immediate return to work. “We’re seeing people […]
May 27, 2020 “We were seeing so many small businesses and entrepreneurs fall through the cracks of the system and not get access to the PPP and other federal funding alternatives,” Trey Bowles, co-founder and executive chairman of The DEC Network, says. So, together with The Dallas Regional Chamber, the Dallas Citizens Council, The DEC […]
May 27, 2020 Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday urged Texans to consider having elective surgeries and procedures done this summer. Doing so will allow the state again to shut off non-emergency medical work to free up hospital beds if coronavirus cases spike later in the year, he explained. “We want to make sure that people […]