September 11, 2020 More than one in nine Texans reported that their household didn’t have enough food to eat in the previous week, according to the Census Bureau. Many Texans are turning to food banks to help feed their families. Early Friday morning, people began lining up by the hundreds in the parking lot of […]
September 9, 2020 In December 2017, Match Affinity Group-a division within Match Group that’s responsible for creating dating apps that target specified communities-launched Chispa, a platform it hoped would help LatinXs find the “spark” its name suggests. “The goal was to create this app for the Latino community-a place where they can connect and meet […]
Vistra-led summer campaign totals $230,000 in donations to fund nearly 2,000 computers for the 2020-2021 school year Vistra (NYSE: VST) today announced that it has capped-off a summer giving campaign to provide laptops to low-income students ahead of the 2020-21 school year. The company has partnered with Comp-U-Dopt, a non-profit organization that provides technology access […]
September 11, 2020 Many companies are working to develop a vaccine for COVID-19, but one key player in Irving is focusing on another part of the public health response: how to deliver those hundreds of millions of doses as soon as they’re available. McKesson Corp., which relocated its corporate headquarters from San Francisco last year, […]
September 10, 2020 A federal appeals court on Thursday vacated a lower court’s ruling that Texas had to extend mail voting to every voter to avoid age discrimination. On Thursday, a three-judge panel of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals said Texas’ election laws do not discriminate by age in violation of the 26th […]
September 10, 2020 Imagine arriving at your office. You walk through the front door, stop at the front desk, and then take a COVID-19 test. Within minutes you are cleared to begin your work day. Cheap, rapid coronavirus testing could change how businesses, schools and other places move forward during the pandemic, and Texas is […]
September 10, 2020 Select groups of Dallas students are poised to return to campuses earlier than planned if the COVID-19 case level in Dallas County stays relatively stable. Dallas ISD rolled out new phased plans Thursday with administrators stressing that in-person classes and extracurricular activities could come with late-minute surprises. That had some trustees expressing […]
September 10, 2020 Dallas County reported 152 new coronavirus cases and seven more deaths from COVID-19 on Thursday. The latest victims included four Dallas residents. One, a woman in her 40s, was pregnant and didn’t have additional underlying health conditions. The three others, a woman in her 50s and two men in their 50s and […]
September 11, 2020 The pandemic be damned for some of the nation’s wealthiest men and women this year, according to Forbes’ new annual ranking of the 400 richest Americans. Alice Walton, the richest woman on this year’s list and Texas’ reigning No. 1, saw her net worth grow nearly $11 billion since last year on […]
September 10, 2020 Two of downtown Dallas’ most prominent hotels are hitting the market. The Fairmont Dallas and the Marriott Dallas Downtown have almost 1,000 rooms and are both owned by a Florida real estate investment trust. Orlando-based Xenia Hotels & Resorts is shopping the two Dallas hotels, along with three other U.S. properties, according […]