January 21, 2021 For CBRE Group Inc. (NYSE: CBRE), the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, a headquarters move from Los Angeles to Dallas just made sense, company President and CEO Bob Sulentic told the Business Journal in October. “Earlier this year, we just decided that with so many people here and […]
January 21, 2021 Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is asking the state to refine its vaccine rollout program, a move he says will help give Texans a clearer idea as to when they can reasonably expect to receive their injections of the coronavirus vaccine. His request comes as distribution of the vaccine in Texas has been […]
January 22, 2021 Hidalgo County Health Authority Ivan Melendez says coming into COVID-19 units nowadays feels like going through a non-linear version of the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. “You cry,” he told the Tribune. “There’s a lady that I’m taking care of that I’ve known since I was a […]
January 21, 2021 President Joe Biden signed an executive order Thursday mandating face masks for passengers during interstate airplane, train and bus travel and in airports, hoping to strengthen airline rules already in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19 among passengers. The mask mandate was among a slew of executive actions by the new […]
January 20, 2021 The pandemic hit education hard when students and teachers had to embrace distance learning. These Dallas-Fort Worth education innovators are finding ways to bridge the instructional divide heightened by COVID. Refined in crisis, the lessons they’re designing aim to improve education for years to come. Expanding tech access Per Scholas expanded their […]
January 20, 2021 Faced with the threat that the state might slash its vaccine allocation, Dallas officials on Wednesday reversed course on a plan that would have prioritized doses for people living in the county’s most vulnerable ZIP codes, primarily in communities of color. A divided Dallas County Commissioners Court had voted Tuesday to prioritize […]
January 20, 2021 The Dallas area led the country in commercial property transactions in 2020, as many larger U.S. markets were hit harder by the COVID-19 pandemic. More than $19.7 billion in commercial real estate deals were recorded in the local market, edging out Los Angeles at almost $19 billion, according to a report by […]
January 19, 2021 City Manager T.C. Broadnax announced Tuesday that the City of Dallas will participate in the national Memorial to Lives Lost to COVID-19 by ringing bells at 4:30 CT. The memorial will take place in Washington D.C. and nationwide on January 19, 2021 starting at 5:30 p.m. ET and continuing at 5:30 p.m. […]
January 20, 2021 After the staff at Austin’s Tarrytown Pharmacy hustled to vaccinate 500 vulnerable Texans and front-line workers over the holidays, pharmacist Rannon Ching logged into an online state system used to track the vaccines. Then he panicked. According to the system, his Tarrytown pharmacy hadn’t vaccinated anyone. The numbers on his screen indicated […]
January 19, 2021 Mi Cocina, the Tex-Mex restaurant known for its brisket tacos and frozen Mambo Taxi cocktails, won the bid to be the flagship restaurant at Klyde Warren Park in Dallas. Company executives will pump at least $2 million into a renovation of the glassed-in restaurant that currently sits vacant, says Edgar Guevara, president […]