May 12, 2020 Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious diseases expert, is testifying before a Senate committee Tuesday, his first appearance before Congress since March. Fauci is appearing remotely at the 10 a.m. hearing with Dr. Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and other officials to discuss […]
May 11, 2020 The Texas Tribune is using data from the Texas Department of State Health Services to track how many people have tested positive for the novel coronavirus in Texas each day. The state data comes from local health officials, and it may not represent all cases of the disease given limited testing. Here’s […]
May 4, 2020 In early March, the state’s oil and gas industry was dealt a major blow as global oil prices plummeted as a result of Saudi Arabia’s declaration of a price war on Russia. Then in late April, the price for a barrel of oil plunged negative, the lowest price since at least the […]
May 11, 2020 Texas the laggard? The Lone Star State has often been a leading economic light, surpassing the rest of nation on job growth, output and other key measures. That probably won’t happen this year. The coronavirus pandemic and stay-at-home orders have locked down much of the economy, and Texas has some especially vulnerable […]
May 12, 2020 Denton County resident Gregory Wilder has been calling four different numbers he’s found for the Texas Workforce Commission since April 14. He tried applying over the phone the first two weeks but the lines were so busy, Wilder said, he often wouldn’t even get a dial tone. Now, weeks later, he feels […]
May 12, 2020 When we first reported on the new coronavirus in January, the official worldwide death tally was still relatively low and the virus was mostly confined overseas. Since then, the epidemic has exploded into a pandemic, and people in the U.S. have died by the hundreds, then thousands, then tens of thousands. Here […]
May 11, 2020 The federal government plans to pull COVID-19 tests from two Dallas sites by the end of the month, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said Monday. The move could close the two largest testing sites and the county would lose 1,000 tests a day. Jenkins said he’s trying to negotiate an extension. He’ll […]
May 11, 2020 The Texas Education Agency (TEA) announced today that its partnership with AmplioSpeech, a leading provider of speech pathology technology, has reached 10,000 Texas students with special education needs. The collaboration is a response to the COVID-19-related shutdown of school campuses statewide and equips school districts with digital speech and language therapy programs, […]
May 11, 2020 FedEx is expanding its North Texas distribution footprint with a major industrial lease in southern Dallas. The global package delivery giant is taking a big block of distribution space in developer Trammell Crow Co.’s Cedardale Distribution Center near Interstate 20. “FedEx Ground has entered into a lease agreement for a new distribution […]
Many construction projects in Dallas have continued during the COVID-19 pandemic, including the redevelopment of southern Dallas’ Southwest Center Mall. The RedBird project, led by owner Peter Brodsky and co-developer Terrence Maiden of Russell Glen Co., will transform the mall into a true mixed-use development, incorporating retail, office space, a hotel, multifamily and even health […]