May 21, 2020 Governor Greg Abbott today announced that the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) will begin a phased opening of driver license offices starting May 26th with limited service offerings. As part of this opening plan, DPS will launch a statewide driver license (DL) appointment system that allows customers to book appointments up […]
May 21, 2020 Texas driver’s license offices will gradually reopen with limited services starting May 26, Gov. Greg Abbott announced Thursday. The first reopening phase includes Northwest and West Texas offices followed by South and Central Texas offices on May 29 and North and Southeast Texas offices on June 3, according to a news release. […]
May 21, 2020 Testing for the novel coronavirus will soon be available at 44 CVS Pharmacy locations across the state, including 16 in North Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott announced Thursday. The locations will offer self-swab testing to people who meet guidance outlined by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as certain […]
May 20, 2020 Dallas Area Rapid Transit is receiving $229 million in federal funding from the federal CARES Act, President Donald Trump tweeted Wednesday, calling the funding “critical to economic recovery.” The money will provide a desperately needed boost for DART, whose budget has had a serious blow from the coronavirus pandemic as both sales […]
Although Texas is opening the economy in phases, this reopening will not be symmetrical, according to Robert Dye, Comerica Bank’s chief economist. While the government can order a business that is open to be closed, you can’t necessarily order a business that is closed to be open in the same way, he said in an […]
May 21, 2020 Governor Greg Abbott today issued an Executive Order (GA-24) terminating air travel restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Governor’s new order immediately terminates all restrictions contained in the Governor’s previous Executive Order (GA-20) that mandated temporary quarantines for air travelers arriving from the following areas of the United States: California; Connecticut; […]
May 21, 2020 With Texas’ runoff elections set to happen in the middle of a pandemic this summer, many voters are asking: Do I have to go to the polls to cast a ballot? The short answer is that it’s still up in the air for many. An ongoing legal fight is being waged on […]
May 21, 2020 University of Texas at Austin students will return for fall classes, but their time on campus will be cut short as they will not be allowed to return after the Thanksgiving break, according to an email sent to students from school officials Wednesday. Reading days and final exams will happen remotely this […]
May 21, 2020 Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), a leader in aerospace innovation, is partnering with JPS Health Network to leverage the use of technology to combat the spread of COVID-19 and its long-term effects on vulnerable and financially at-risk populations in Tarrant County. Through a $500,000 Lockheed Martin grant to the JPS Foundation, which seeks […]
May 21, 2020 Vari, an office products company in Coppell, has a big-picture view of how the pandemic is changing the workplace. As an employer, it assigned over 300 people to work from home, and they got up to speed within four hours, said co-founder and CEO Jason McCann. They’ve been productive and efficient, he […]