Amazon opened its first new fulfillment site in Texas since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic and launched a hiring spree for 1,500 full-time employees. The e-commerce giant intends to fill the slots for the fulfillment center, known as DAL3, within the next eight weeks. Staff members hired will handle inventory and customer shipments, among […]
May 13, 2020 Hindus from across North Texas have provided more than 20,000 meals to local frontline workers and first responders. That includes 12,000 meals to healthcare workers at Parkland Memorial Hospital, UT Southwestern Medical Center and several hospitals in the Baylor, Presbyterian and Methodist systems, according to Amy Elliston Rainwater, an outpatient therapy educator […]
May 13, 2020 The federal government has extended its support of two COVID-19 testing sites in Dallas through June, after Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said earlier this week that the federal government planned to stop supplying 1,000 tests per day to Dallas at the end of the month. Mayor Eric Johnson announced the extension […]
May 13, 2020 Amazon has started to hire for a new fulfillment center in Oak Cliff just south of Interstate 30 that’s been in the works for two years. The facility at 1301 Chalk Hill Road is Amazon’s first new site to open in Texas since the coronavirus pandemic began. The city of Dallas provided […]
May 13, 2020 After theaters were closed to prevent the spread of COVID-19, Oak Cliff’s Texas Theatre had to pivot to a new business model. It began collaborating with independent film distributors to stream online the films it had planned to show onscreen-whether reruns, premieres, or anything in between. A simple process, it’s basically Amazon […]
May 13, 2020 For five years now, Cafe Momentum in downtown Dallas has been successfully operating as a nonprofit restaurant staffed by at-risk youth who receive life and job skills training after release from juvenile detention centers. So far, 750 adolescents have participated in the feel-good restaurant’s internship. To continue the mission after dining rooms […]
May 12, 2020 Extreme times call for extreme measures, or at least creative ones. And Jeremy Strick, the director of the Nasher Sculpture Center, has proposed a good one, or at least one worth thinking about — now. Strick shared his thoughts in an essay written for Artnet, with a headline that says it all: […]
May 12, 2020 Even though business offices are allowed to officially reopen next Monday, employees who have children cannot return to work until they have a place to send them during the day. “We will make a decision – the governor will make a decision – probably in the next month or so for the […]
May 12, 2020 Escalating tensions between Texas state officials and the leaders of some of the state’s biggest cities, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office warned officials in Austin, Dallas and San Antonio on Tuesday to roll back “unlawful” local emergency orders that impose stricter coronavirus restrictions than the state has issued – and hinted […]
May 12, 2020 Dallas officials said Tuesday that they want 4,000 coronavirus tests a day performed in the city and won’t wait on the federal government to offer more screening. Dallas City Council members on Wednesday will consider a one-year emergency agreement to provide mobile testing, which would use $660,000 from coronavirus relief funds provided […]