The 87th Texas Legislature began with a wave of uncertainty. Lawmakers faced a potential multibillion-dollar budget shortfall. The Covid-19 pandemic was still raging, and vaccines weren’t yet widely available. Lobbyists faced the prospect of having limited access to the State Capitol. Those dark clouds parted swiftly, and in the end some businesses walked away happy, […]
June 9, 2021 Across the country incentives are being offered for people to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Now the Dallas Regional Chamber (DRC) is getting in the mix with offers that include free air travel and of course tickets to games of the biggest professional teams. The Chamber is offering a sweepstakes – with a […]
June 9, 2021 The Dallas Regional Chamber will launch a COVID-19 vaccine awareness campaign Wednesday in an effort to push the region over the threshold for herd immunity. The campaign, titled “Take Care of Business,” will use targeted advertising and a sweepstakes with the goal of getting 600,000 more North Texans ages 16 and older […]
June 7, 2021 Texas businesses that require customers to be vaccinated against COVID-19 will be denied state contracts and could lose their licenses or operating permits under legislation Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law Monday. “Texas is open 100%, and we want to make sure you have the freedom to go where you want without […]
June 6, 2021 It’s a cliché to say the pandemic year was unlike any other, and don’t be surprised to hear the same about 2021, because both descriptions are likely to be true. In Dallas-Fort Worth, where job growth feels like a birthright, the region lost nearly 122,000 jobs last year, according to seasonally adjusted […]
June 4, 2021 Employment in the U.S. technology sector grew in May and employers’ search for new tech talent reached a level not seen in nearly two years, an analysis by CompTIA, the nonprofit association for the information technology (IT) industry and workforce, reveals. Technology companies added 10,500 jobs in May, a combination of technical […]
June 7, 2021 “The last one out of Silicon Valley, please turn out the lights.” Signage to that effect has yet to be seen in the Bay Area, but it may be only a matter of time. Corporate headquarters relocations to Texas, particularly from Silicon Valley, California, are on a roll; 2021 is forecast to […]
June 3, 2021 About $5.5 billion of federal pandemic aid will soon begin flowing to schools, but some districts will get more supplemental aid than others. How much extra money they receive depends on how their student enrollment fluctuated during the COVID-19 health crisis. The state plans to use some of the federal money — […]
June 6, 2021 Dallas is coming out of the pandemic stronger than many other metro areas but with a new challenge: rivals looking to attract talent away with remote-work-friendly incentives. How cities recover from the nation’s worst health crisis in a century has a lot to do with how they fared before the pandemic, how […]
June 2, 2021 Twenty-two public companies headquartered in North Texas earned spots on this year’s Fortune 500 ranking of the nation’s biggest revenue-generating businesses. McKesson, the Irving-based pharmaceuticals distributor that played a key role in moving vaccine supplies across the country, surpassed perennial leader Exxon Mobil as the highest-ranking local company on the list. McKesson […]