November 18, 2020 Dallas County on Wednesday reported 947 more coronavirus cases, all of them considered new, and 17 new COVID-19 deaths – the most deaths reported by the county on a single day in more than a month. Meanwhile, Tarrant County became the first North Texas county to report more than 2,000 new cases […]
November 18, 2020 The Dallas Mavericks passed out Thanksgiving meals Tuesday to 200 families in Mesquite. Families received a frozen turkey, green beans, corn, mashed potatoes, mini marshmallows, stuffing, canned pumpkin, cranberry sauce, cake mix, frosting and reusable bags. The annual Mavs Turkey Giveaway, a partnership with Kroger, included appearances by Mavs legends Cedric Ceballos […]
November 18, 2020 Braniff International Airways may have died in 1982 when the Dallas carrier went out of business, but its image is getting a second life on purses, pillows, an office building and soon on a boutique hotel at the site of its former flight attendant dormitory. Centurion American, which developed downtown Dallas’ swanky […]
November 17, 2020 Social media giant Facebook is making more of an investment in its sprawling data center campus in North Fort Worth. Facebook opened the first phase of the 150-acre high-tech complex on State Highway 170 in 2017. Since then, the company has steadily added to the $1 billion complex. Now Facebook has filed […]
November 17, 2020 B.U.I.L.D. (Broaden Urban Investments to Leverage Dallas) has launched the B.U.I.L.D Small Business Grant Program to assist small businesses impacted by the economic downturn caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic. The program will provide businesses in the city of Dallas that have fewer than nine employees, or a 2019 payroll of less […]
November 17, 2020 The City of Dallas Department of Code Compliance welcomes residents to participate in the final Community Clean Trash-Off event on Saturday, November 21, 2020, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at 1600 E. Five Mile Parkway Dallas, Texas 75216 (North Side of Glendale Park). Residents can bring bulky trash items and the […]
The challenging economic environment in 2020 has forced many businesses to re-examine their balance sheets to find ways to improve performance and cut costs. That’s leading more and more companies to consider Texas as a place to put their money. Texas has long had a reputation for being a business-friendly state, thanks to comparatively low […]
November 17, 2020 The original plan for Thanksgiving was that nothing would be different. Eight members of Jesse Gonzales’ family would come from all over North Texas for a traditional turkey dinner in his Dallas home, just like they do every year. His grandchildren would run around the house and Jesse would watch football with […]
November 16, 2020 Pfizer Inc PFE.N has launched a pilot delivery program for its experimental COVID-19 vaccine in four U.S. states, as the U.S. drugmaker seeks to address distribution challenges facing its ultra-cold storage requirements. Pfizer’s vaccine, which was shown to be more than 90% effective in preventing COVID-19 based on initial data, must be […]
November 17, 2020 Two of Texas’ leading health care players are teaming up to create a new medical school campus to reduce the state’s physician shortage and foster more health care innovation. Baylor Scott & White Health, the largest nonprofit hospital system in Texas, said it’s collaborating with Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, the […]