Texas Gov. Greg Abbott sets July 8 date for special legislative session on voting bill, other issues
June 22, 2021 Gov. Greg Abbott has set a special session of the Texas Legislature starting July 8, his office announced Tuesday. Abbott’s office did not specify what legislative priorities will be included on the special session agenda and said in an advisory that such items “will be announced prior to the convening of the […]
June 21, 2021 Dallas County reported two more COVID-19 deaths and 106 new coronavirus cases Monday as concerns increase that a new variant of the virus could become the dominant strain in North Texas. The latest victims were a Dallas man in his 80s and a DeSoto woman in her 70s. Both had underlying high-risk […]
June 21, 2021 The AT&T Discovery District is coming together for an official launch. The downtown campus for the Dallas telecommunications giant is set to fully open later this week. A key piece of the effort – The Exchange Food Hall – will become officially available to the public, marking the final step for the […]
June 16, 2021 A bill to recognize Juneteenth as a federal holiday led by Republican U.S. Sen. John Cornyn and Democrat U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, of Houston, is poised to become law as June 19 draws near. The bill was passed in the Senate on Tuesday and the House on Wednesday. Lee said the […]
June 16, 2021 In a few years, Dallas may finally be among the exclusive list of cities that are home to a Four Seasons hotel. For the developer of the future project, however, Dallas is already among the elites. “Dallas is like the most important U.S. city today. You have New York, San Francisco, but […]
June 16, 2021 In recruiting businesses, local officials like to say they need every tool in the toolbox. So what happens when they lose the hammer? Last month, Texas lawmakers chose to not extend the Chapter 313 incentives program, which has saved companies $10.8 billion in school taxes over the past two decades. While it’s […]
June 14, 2021 Like speed limits on a highway, signal latency can slow down innovation-and put things like our electricity grid in catastrophic danger. But last week Texas Instruments (TI) accelerated what’s possible with a new family of SAR ADCs-a breakthrough in high-speed data converters with up to 80% lower latency than competitive devices at […]
June 14, 2021 In June 1981, American Airlines announced 11 new routes from DFW International Airport, including flights to Austin, Corpus Christi, Lubbock, Orlando, Fla., and Portland, Ore. For the first time, it also dubbed DFW International Airport as a network hub, a new emphasis that would transform North Texas into one of the centers […]
June 14, 2021 Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins announced Monday that the county was lowering the coronavirus threat level to yellow — the lowest it has been since the county began its color-coded warning system last year. The change, announced on Twitter, means that unvaccinated people can safely increase activities such as eating inside restaurants, […]
June 11, 2021 Dallas trustees are set to approve a $1.8 billion budget that tackles the COVID-19 learning slide for students, raises the district’s minimum wage and devotes millions to a discipline system overhaul. But it does not include a major across-the-board raise for teachers who have lobbied that the boost was especially needed after […]