August 26, 2020 The World Series may be coming to Arlington this year after all. Major League Baseball and the Players Association are discussing several “bubble” formats for the postseason that would include using the Rangers’ new home, Globe Life Field in Arlington, as the neutral site for the World Series, three sources confirmed Wednesday. […]
August 26, 2020 Although the State Fair of Texas has been canceled for 2020, fair executives announced late Wednesday that it will welcome smaller groups of people into Fair Park for drive-thru picnics and pictures with Big Tex. The State Fair of Texas would ordinarily welcome at least 2.5 million people to Fair Park over […]
August 25, 2020 When Congress passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act at the end of March, part of the goal was to help keep people in their homes as the nation battled a pandemic by trying to get people to stay home. A number of housing experts say that legislation, bolstered […]
August 26, 2020 The Bank of America Charitable Foundation awarded a $350,000 grant to Parkland Foundation to support the health system’s walk-up COVID-19 testing sites. “Parkland’s commitment to building a healthy community has long been appreciated in Dallas, and even more so the past few months as this health and humanitarian crisis continues to take […]
August 25, 2020 On hot, humid days, when the wind blows over Shingle Mountain, Marsha Jackson can’t breathe. For three years, a company called Blue Star Recycling dumped hundreds of tons of roof shingles in the lot next to her home and ground them up into dust. Eventually, the company created a pile so large […]
Augsut 25, 2020 The Dallas Business Journal is pleased to announce the first group of its 2020 honorees as part of its 18th annual Best Places to Work Awards. The list of winners was whittled down from several hundred nominees and were chosen to take part in the program that highlights workplaces that are embraced […]
August 26, 2020 Those numbers are people. It’s easy to forget, when you’re taking a daily look at a dashboard tracking the coronavirus, at the closed businesses and unemployed workers across the state that mark the path of the recession, at efforts to educate Texas kids in classrooms or in their homes, or at the […]
August 25, 2020 The Texas Tribune is using data from the Texas Department of State Health Services to track how many people have tested positive for the novel coronavirus in Texas each day. The state data comes from 57 city and county health departments, about 600 hospitals and 340 laboratories and the state vital records […]
August 25, 2020 Coronavirus-devastated American Airlines will furlough 17,500 union workers in October even after more than 23,000 employees took voluntary leaves and buyouts. Fort Worth-based American, which has cut back its fourth-quarter flights by 50%, said coming weeks and months will be some of “the most difficult we have ever faced” The airline also […]
August 25, 2020 Texas Women’s Foundation is blazing a trail for its “legacy of inclusion” with its 47-member board that makes up one of the most diverse and powerful in the Dallas-Fort Worth region. Dallas-based Texas Women’s Foundation (TXWF) today announced eight new board members set to serve three-year terms from 2020-2023. It also named […]