May 20, 2020 Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has been outspoken about how reopening should be handled during the coronavirus pandemic. Cuban is part of the advisory group President Donald Trump created to give input on the process. At a virtual meeting Wednesday hosted by the Dallas Regional Chamber, Cuban spoke with WFAA’s Cynthia Izaguirre […]
May 20, 2020 A federal appeals court has temporarily put on hold a lower court’s sweeping ruling that would have allowed all Texas voters to qualify to vote by mail during the coronavirus pandemic. Siding with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a three-judge panel of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday blocked […]
May 19, 2020 American Airlines will need to “right-size” the company heading into fall and 2021 as it deals with the continuing damage to air travel from the COVID-19 pandemic, chief financial officer Derek Kerr told an investor conference Tuesday. Looking at several more months of depressed leisure travel and a longer recovery for business […]
May 20, 2020 Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) has received notification that it has been allocated $229 million from The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, enacted on March 27. Funding from the CARES Act allows access to valuable financial resources in the battle to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. DART has continued […]
May 20, 2020 COVID-19’s spread has shut down businesses, seen unemployment rates skyrocket and upended individuals’ lives and shaken social norms. It’s also emboldened business owners and individuals to scam the public. During disasters and emergencies, a business selling items at an exorbitant price, or price gouging, is the most common scam, according to Attorney […]
May 20, 2020 The directive from Gov. Greg Abbott that restaurants could reopen at 25% capacity — 50% this Friday, May 22 — has left some owners scratching their heads. How could they reopen safely during the coronavirus pandemic? What is the right way to sanitize surfaces now that cleaning is needed more frequently? Is […]
May 20, 2020 For America to recover, manufacturing has to recover, and a factory in Grand Prairie has begun retrofitting for these pandemic times. Flex-N-Gate Texas makes about 50 parts for every SUV coming off the assembly line at the General Motors plant in Arlington. So far, it’s brought back about 60% of its 900 […]
May 19, 2020 A small group of Conrad High School seniors in Dallas recently celebrated one of the first in-person graduations in the country. It almost didn’t happen because of COVID-19. The superintendent said all Dallas graduations this year would be virtual, but he gave small groups some autonomy. The high schoolers, who also earned […]
May 19, 2020 When Kelsey and Alex Carroll heard that the NBA was postponing the rest of its season, they got a phone call. Then another. Then another. Soon, all of the business for their $3 million-a-year event company, Toss Up Events, was gone as COVID-19 brought the world to a halt. “It was a […]
May 19, 2020 A federal judge opened a path for a massive expansion in absentee voting in Texas by ordering Tuesday that all state voters, regardless of age, qualify for mail-in ballots during the coronavirus pandemic. Days after a two-hour preliminary injunction hearing in San Antonio, U.S. District Judge Fred Biery agreed with individual Texas […]