September 22, 2020 The presidential elections are less than a month and half away. Our readers have shared a keen interest in these elections, and we’ve fielded their questions about how to vote. We’ve had some recurring inquiries, so in honor of National Voter Registration Day today, we’ve put all of your frequently asked questions […]
Dallas County hits 1,000 COVID-19 deaths; pandemic’s path hinges on individual choices, Jenkins says
September 22, 2020 On the same day that the U.S. officially surpassed 200,000 COVID-19 deaths, Dallas County reached a new sobering marker of its own, announcing three new deaths that lifted the county’s total pandemic fatalities to 1,000. Dallas County’s first reported death came on March 19. Since then, COVID-19 has killed more county residents […]
September 22, 2020 Ryan Cohen, the entrepreneur who built Chewy.com into a pet-supply giant and sold it for more than $3 billion, is now pitching GameStop Corp. on a lofty goal: becoming a true competitor to Amazon.com Inc., according to a person familiar with the matter. The Grapevine-based video game retailer’s shares jumped as much […]
September 22, 2020 The healthcare industry in North Texas is diverse, growing, and innovative, and its economic impact is as varied as it is massive. Health systems, hospitals, outpatient clinics, real estate, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, health tech, insurance, and other subsectors represent about 15 percent of the regional economy-or $52 billion, according to the Dallas […]
September 22, 2020 Walmart says shoppers aren’t going to start acting radically different when the holiday shopping season begins. The world’s largest retailer expects the habits shoppers have developed during the pandemic to define the 2020 holiday shopping season, and it’s planning accordingly. Walmart is hiring 20,000 seasonal workers for its e-commerce fulfillment centers to […]
August 31, 2020 Waymo recently bolstered its self-driving truck program by expanding into Texas with a new hub in Dallas. Waymo joins a growing number of driverless tech firms locating facilities or freight operations in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, including Aurora, Nuro, Kodiak Robotics and TuSimple. “Operating in a major freight hub environment like Dallas, […]
September 21, 2020 The last time the United States was struck by a pandemic was just over a century ago, when an outbreak of influenza in 1918 and 1919 killed 675,000 Americans. As the nation battled the flu virus, seeds of social unrest that were growing in the years leading up to it began to […]
September 22, 2020 In Texas – as around the country – college towns are emerging as new hot spots for the coronavirus, with cases surging among student populations and administrators scrambling to keep infections from reaching the broader population. In the counties where four-year college students make up at least 10% of the population, including […]
September 22, 2020 Here’s one way to get a lot more people to take a vaccine: require it as a condition of employment. Private companies can adopt that policy, which could have a big impact on the uptake of the new COVID-19 vaccines now under rapid development. But such a move would be controversial. The […]
September 21, 2020 Plans for a bullet train from Dallas to Houston have cleared two federal regulatory hurdles, allowing Texas Central Railroad to move closer to construction, the company announced Monday. Texas Central said the Federal Railroad Administration has finalized two key regulatory processes for the project: one establishing safety requirements and another completing an […]