September 1, 2020 The mayors of Texas’ most populous cities described painful budget cuts with shortfalls of tens of millions of dollars stemming from the coronavirus pandemic. But they said they’re worried that future budgets could be just as difficult to balance for years to come. Mayors Betsy Price of Fort Worth, Ron Nirenberg of […]
September 1, 2020 Dallas County officials reported 19 more deaths from the coronavirus Tuesday, as well as 622 additional cases of the illness. Although the number of new cases was the most the county has seen in several weeks, County Judge Clay Jenkins said residents shouldn’t read too much into one day’s data, especially because […]
September 1, 2020 Reporting on the COVID-19 pandemic in North Texas over the past several months, I kept hearing different iterations of the same refrain: The disease has highlighted the needs we already knew were there and sped up changes that were already in motion. COVID-19 has illuminated the best and worst parts of healthcare […]
August 31, 2020 Texas’s COVID-19 data is complex but important. It guides the decisions of doctors, scientists, government leaders and others, but it’s continued to have issues. “This has been an under-resourced area of public health and reporting,” said chief clinical officer for Christus Health Sam Bagchi. Christus runs 40 hospitals in Texas, Louisiana and […]
August 31, 2020 D CEO’s popular Diversity, Inclusion, and Impact Symposium returns with a full day, jam-packed event. Now in its second year, the program will run from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. with keynotes, presentations, panel discussions, and Q&A sessions with speakers. Kicking things off is Lisa Ong, who is an executive coach, speaker, […]
August 31, 2020 When asked how business was going at his downtown Neopolitan Italian restaurant Partenope, still in its first year of operation, chef and co-owner Dino Santonicola’s answer was to the point – “I have one word for you: bad.” Downtown Dallas restaurants were given a one-two punch by the pandemic and largely peaceful […]
August 31, 2020 How the economy ultimately recovers from the coronavirus pandemic is yet to be seen, but Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Senior Economic Policy Advisor Anthony Murphy said the economy has been recovering relatively rapidly compared to the Great Recession in his opinion. “This time around for many indicators, we’ve seen a V-shaped […]
As the school year begins online, thousands of Texas students are being left out of virtual learning
September 1, 2020 Texas schools struggled this spring to abruptly shift from teaching students in classrooms to reaching them at home. Many students fell behind in the makeshift remote learning systems cobbled together when the pandemic hit. Education officials vowed to do a better job come fall. But as the new academic year ramps up, […]
August 31, 2020 Dallas County reported 460 new coronavirus cases Monday, with more than a third of them resulting from a backlog in the state’s reporting system. The county also announced one more death from COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus. The victim, whose death brings the county’s toll to 902, was a Dallas […]
August 31, 2020 Acting at the request of the secretary of state, the Texas attorney general sued Harris County on Monday after it refused to drop plans to send applications for mail-in ballots for the November general election to more than 2 million registered voters. Attorney General Ken Paxton is asking a state district court […]