July 29, 2020 After weeks of confusion and conflicting signals, Texas has settled into policies that effectively compel schools to reopen their classrooms this fall no later than eight weeks after the academic year begins, whether they want to or not. Teachers, parents, school administrators and public health officials have been seeking clarity for weeks […]
July 29, 2020 More than 60% of U.S. metro areas had lost construction jobs at midyear. But building sector jobs in the Dallas area were higher than in June 2019, according to a new report by the Associated General Contractors of America. Because of the pandemic, construction employment was down in 225 of the major […]
July 29, 2020 American Airlines has spent the last year trying to fix what one executive called a “very massive revenue problem” by using a creative solution. The two largest American Airlines Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: AAL) hubs are Dallas Fort Worth International Airport and Charlotte Douglas International Airport. Each of the hubs perform great financially […]
July 28, 2020 The Texas Education Agency is changing course with its guidance on public schools closed by local health orders, stating that those campuses will no longer receive full state funding for remote-only learning through the duration of those orders. Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath told superintendents about the change during a conference call […]
July 28, 2020 Decisions from the Texas Attorney General and Texas Education Agency have left families across Texas confused about plans for the upcoming school year. Thousands of parents tuned in to a Fort Worth Independent School District virtual town hall Tuesday, submitting thousands of comments across Facebook YouTube and Zoom, many trying to learn […]
July 29, 2020 There are 23 new companies on our 2020 list of the fastest-growing middle market companies in North Texas. The Dallas Business Journal’s sixth annual Middle Market 50 list honors the fastest-growing private and public companies based in Dallas-Fort Worth with annual revenue between $10 million and $1 billion that are nominated. The […]
July 29, 2020 Since becoming Dallas’ first chief innovation officer last year, Laila Alequresh has been working to lift up the importance of using data to make decisions in City Hall. It didn’t take long for COVID-19 to come along and show just how important that is. At the beginning of the pandemic, Alequresh launched […]
July 28, 2020 The Trump administration announced Tuesday that it will reject new applications for the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program despite a federal judge’s order earlier this month that new applicants should be given consideration. The judge’s order came after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that the Department of Homeland […]
July 28, 2020 A study authored by Dr. Robert Gottlieb of Baylor Scott & White Research Institute is showing the power of the anti-viral treatment Remdesivir. The study compared the efficacy of the drug versus standard-of-care treatment in adults with severe COVID-19. Not every hospital has access to the drug, so Gottlieb wanted to explore […]
July 28, 2020 When Tonya McClary moved from New Orleans to Dallas earlier this year, she had high hopes for what unprecedented oversight of the country’s eighth largest Police Department could look like. As director and monitor of the relatively new city Office of Community Police Oversight, one of her roles is to investigate complaints […]