July 16, 2020 A group of 51 Dallas arts and cultural organizations announced Thursday that they have adopted uniform “COVID-19 safety standards” that will determine how and when they can reopen and do so safely. The move makes Dallas the first city in Texas whose large and small arts groups have teamed up in such […]
July 16, 2020 American Airlines is partnering with smaller competitor JetBlue to create more connections in the Northeast while both airlines try to claw back from the COVID-19 pandemic. Fort Worth-based American announced the codeshare and loyalty benefits with New York-based JetBlue on Thursday. American also said it will strengthen its international network out of […]
July 15, 2020 Comerica Bank is partnering with The Dallas Entrepreneur Center Network at Redbird to offer a free bootcamp series that provides training to small business owners and entrepreneurs during the coronavirus pandemic. The first session of the four-week, online “Virtual Business $ense Bootcamp Series” started July 14 and will run through August 4. […]
July 15, 2020 The owners and patrons of Ironroot Republic Distillery in Denison hardly consider the business to be a bar in the traditional sense. There’s no loud music or dancing. The doors closed at 5:30 p.m. most nights before the pandemic. On Saturdays, they closed at 3 p.m. Most of its business came from […]
July 15, 2020 The Texas A&M University System is expected to begin offering free on-campus COVID-19 testing for students, faculty and staff by the end of the week. The university system will send out about 15,000 mouth swab test kits each month to be distributed across its 11 university campuses. In total, the system includes […]
July 15, 2020 Amazon is building another huge shipping location in southern Dallas. The e-commerce giant has plans to occupy a more than 1 million-square-foot building located south of Interstate 20. The Southlink Logistics Center on Cleveland Road was built by Houston-based developer Hines. Hines filed plans with the state to finish out the warehouse […]
July 15, 2020 Parkland Community Health Plan expects to hire 100 workers over the rest of this year in a major overhaul of its business operations, according to a release from the locally owned and operated insurer. As unemployment during the pandemic rose to unprecedented levels, more people are relying on Medicaid, which heightens the […]
July 15, 2020 Weeks before summer break is set to end for millions of Texas public school students, the state still doesn’t have final rules on how schools should reopen this fall, and the picture grew only slightly less murky Wednesday. Schools in Houston, the state’s largest district, announced they will start the fall semester […]
July 15, 2020 Local public health officials will be able to keep Texas schools closed for in-person instruction this fall without risking state education funding, a Texas Education Agency spokesperson confirmed to The Texas Tribune Wednesday. Last week, the state’s education agency released an order requiring schools to open their buildings to in-person instruction five […]
July 15, 2020 Walmart will require customers to wear face coverings at all of its namesake and Sam’s Club stores, making it the largest retailer to introduce such a policy that has otherwise proven difficult to enforce without state and federal requirements. The company said the policy will go into effect on Monday to allow […]