April 21, 2020 Negotiators have reached an agreement to add roughly $484 billion in new funds to bolster the already-record-breaking coronavirus response legislation. The latest deal, negotiated between Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and top leaders in Congress, includes $322 billion in additional money for a small business loan program that ran dry within two weeks. […]
April 21, 2020 Dallas County commissioners voted on Tuesday to extend the county’s stay-at-home order until May 15, two weeks past the statewide order issued by Gov. Greg Abbott. Judge Clay Jenkins and commissioners Elba Garcia and Theresa Daniel voted for the extension. Commissioners John Wiley Price and J.J. Koch voted against. Price raised concerns […]
April 21, 2020 Dallas-based AT&T will launch its new video streaming service HBO Max on May 27 and plans to provide free access to some existing internet, wireless and video streaming customers, the company announced Tuesday. The new services combines HBO’s content with TV shows and movies from Warner Bros., New Line Cinema, TBS, TNT, […]
April 21, 2020 Many of Dallas ISD’s overwhelmingly economically disadvantaged students are heavily reliant on their school for meals. For students and their families, the closure of schools for the remainder of the academic year due to the COVID-19 pandemic represented a threat to both their academic progress and basic needs. Fortunately, Dallas ISD’s Food […]
April 21, 2020 Dallas ISD this week will begin distributing the 10,000 mobile hotspots it purchased last month to help ensure students have Wi-Fi access while learning from home. Staff worked over the weekend preparing the shipment of hotspots for distribution, placing decals, ensuring they broadcast a Wi-Fi signal, labeling them with students’ names and […]
Dallas may see a 20% increase in commercial mortgage-backed securities Watch List loans Owners of the nation’s malls, retail plazas and Main Street storefronts are sounding alarms over the magnitude of the financial wreckage in store for the U.S. economy as efforts to contain the coronavirus appear destined for a prolonged slog. Signs of the […]
‘We need a plan, not a date’ to reopen economy, U.S. Rep. Colin Allred says at coronavirus town hall
April 20, 2020 Days after Gov. Greg Abbott announced he was lifting some restrictions placed on Texans because of the coronavirus pandemic, U.S. Rep. Colin Allred said he doesn’t want officials to move too quickly. “I do have some concerns about reopening all of our businesses without specific benchmarks and a plan to get us […]
The dramatic collapse in worldwide demand for oil led to an extraordinary development on Monday: U.S. oil prices fell below zero for the first time ever, and kept falling. The key U.S. oil benchmark, West Texas Intermediate, settled at negative $37.63. Driven by a trading contract deadline, traders desperately looked for buyers for the barrels […]
April 19, 2020 Concrete floor company owner Jeremy Cox of Dallas didn’t get any of the federal coronavirus money for small business before it ran out last week – though he tried. Cox, a “marketing guy” who invested in East Dallas-based Craftsman Concrete Floors last fall, said he was just taking it to new heights […]
April 20, 2020 Dallas’ two main coronavirus testing centers will now test any essential retail worker, like grocery store employees, regardless of their symptoms, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins announced Monday. In a tweet Monday, Jenkins said that grocery, big box store and other essential workers can be tested at the American Airlines Center and […]