August 16, 2020 Dallas County reported more than 5,000 new coronavirus cases Sunday, saying a backlog of thousands of cases was received Saturday because of problems with the state’s reporting system. Of the 5,361 new cases reported Sunday, 5,195 came from the backlog, according to a news release from Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins. The […]
August 15, 2020 Growing up in Monahans in the 1960s, Arlinda Valencia said she was used to hearing about the valor of the Texas Rangers in school and on television. “I grew up watching The Lone Ranger,” she said, referring to the 1950s Western drama series. “The Lone Ranger was a hero, and that’s what […]
August 13, 2020 The Covid-19 crisis has brought with it a mental health crisis in the United States, and new data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show just how broad the pandemic’s impact on mental health might be. A new CDC survey found that almost 41% of respondents are struggling with […]
August 16, 2020 Fred Perpall and John Olajide start each workday with a 7:30 call to plot strategy. The chairs of the Dallas Citizens Council and the Dallas Regional Chamber want to make sure their organizations are doing everything possible to fight the dual pandemics of coronavirus and racial injustice. The duo established this daily […]
August 14, 2020 McKesson Corp., MCK -1.87% one of the world’s largest drug wholesalers and the biggest vaccine middleman in the U.S., will be a main distributor of Covid-19 vaccines nationwide should the shots prove to work safely, federal health officials said. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is exercising an option in […]
The number of Chapter 11 business bankruptcy filings in the region almost tripled in the second quarter as the coronavirus-fueled economic shutdown wreaked havoc on the economy. Virtually all of those filings were in the bankruptcy haven of Delaware, which saw 595 businesses seek Chapter 11 protection compared to 208 in the first quarter and […]
August 14, 2020 One of every six public school students in Texas does not have access to high-speed internet, and 30% of them don’t have a “dedicated and adequate learning device” – a laptop or tablet computer – according to Texas educators who answered a voluntary state survey earlier this year. The survey is part […]
August 14, 2020 Hundreds of Texans on unemployment insurance have been the target of potentially fraudulent schemes to steal personal information and funds, the Texas Workforce Commission said Friday. TWC is aware of 233 instances in which a person’s account with the agency was taken over and had bank account information changed, according to the […]
August 14, 2020 Officials in Austin, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio each spent more than $434 million from their general funds on their respective police departments during the 2020 fiscal year. For each, that was more than a third of their general funds, the portion of city budgets that can largely be distributed to any […]
August 13, 2020 Despite opposition from the oil and gas industry it aims to help, the Trump administration is rolling back an Obama-era rule designed to reduce climate-warming methane emissions. Methane is the main ingredient in natural gas. But when it’s released before it burns, say from a leaky valve at a drilling site, it’s […]