October 19, 2020 CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) today announced that it is recruiting qualified candidates to fill 15,000 jobs. These new and existing positions will help the company continue to respond to the needs of communities across the country during the fall and winter months when the incidences of COVID-19 and the flu are expected […]
October 19, 2020 The race for Congressional District 32 is heating up. And if you haven’t made your decision yet in this race, you’ll want to join us this Thursday. WFAA is partnering with the Dallas Regional Chamber to present a live, virtual debate between the candidates in CD 32: Democrat incumbent Colin Allred and […]
October 20, 2020 Dallas County on Tuesday reported 472 new confirmed coronavirus cases – a 42 percent jump from the previous day’s new-case figure – bringing the county’s total number of confirmed cases to 90,790. Four additional COVID-19 deaths were reported, including a hospitalized man in his 30s who had been critically ill. Labs either […]
Here’s how many Texans have voted early in the 2020 general election in the state’s biggest counties
October 20, 2020 Through Oct. 19, 29% of registered voters had cast their ballots in Texas’ 10 largest counties. Through Oct. 19, the seventh day of early voting for Texans in the 2020 general election, 2,817,663 people had voted in person and by mail in Texas’ 10 largest counties- 29% of registered voters in those […]
October 20, 2020 There’s an intriguing new report from the Brookings Institution that puts some hard numbers to a transportation principle that anyone who has spent five minutes in North Texas knows all too well: for most Americans, the automobile is the only real method of transportation available. Brookings analyzed data that revealed that, on […]
Personnel Moves: DRC Hires First Senior Vice President of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, And More
October 20, 2020 In response to a 278 percent growth in online sales during the past quarter, Sally Beauty Holdings has hired a new marketing leadership team. Frances Lukban joins the retail company as vice president of content and media strategy, while Mindy Torrey will serve as vice president of creative, and Dorothy Jones will […]
October 16, 2020 For Democrats trying to explain how they can win in Texas, the line has long been that it’s not a Republican state, it’s a nonvoting state. The second half of that claim has been true historically: Texas has routinely brought up the rear on lists of states ranked by voter participation. But […]
October 19, 2020 Dallas County is offering a free shuttle to an early voting location for the first time. Dallas Area Rapid Transit and the Dallas County Elections Department partnered to offer the service to the Elections Department after record early voting turnout last week. The shuttles will run daily through Election Day, Nov. 3. […]
October 19, 2020 If a COVID-19 vaccine is ready next month, Texas health officials predict it won’t be widely available to Texans until at least July. Under the state’s vaccine distribution plan, vulnerable people, including health care workers, older people and people with underlying medical conditions would likely be the first to get the vaccine […]
October 20, 2020 Cases of COVID-19 in parts of Texas surged to near catastrophic levels this summer as some hospitals were forced to put beds in hallways, intensive care units exceeded capacity and health officials struggled to stem the tide of the virus. After peaking in late July and August, cases fell and leveled off […]