June 30, 2020 Nationwide construction employment is bouncing back from the worst of the pandemic. And the Dallas-Fort Worth area is adding more construction sector jobs, too. Construction employment rose in all but a few U.S. metro areas in May compared with April, according to the latest survey by the Associated General Contractors of America. […]
June 30, 2020 The Texas Workforce Commission decided Tuesday to postpone reinstating a work-search requirement for out-of-work Texans receiving unemployment benefits. The requirement that Texans be actively searching for a job in order to receive benefits was initially slated to go into effect Monday. But the TWC’s executive director cited rising numbers of coronavirus cases […]
June 30, 2020 The Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) announced today (Tuesday, June 30th) that it will delay the reinstatement of the work search requirement for unemployment benefits in Texas. This requirement, which is federal law, was suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic. From the outset, TWC has stated that bringing back work search would be […]
June 29, 2020 As the COVID pandemic continues to derail business travel plans, it hasn’t stopped Dallas’ Michael Potts from visiting with clients and business associates across the globe in their offices, conference rooms, living rooms, etc. Potts and others at his company-M2 Studio-work with architects, landscape architects, interior designers, engineers, construction companies, and developers […]
Overwhelming demand for COVID-19 tests, long waits for results hamper Texas effort to control spread
June 30, 2020 Testing for the coronavirus in Texas is faltering, as soaring demand challenges laboratories’ ability to keep up. Test sites in major cities are filling up within hours. Some results are taking over a week, or as long as a month, to come back. A large drive-through testing site in West Texas closed […]
June 29, 2020 Plano was listed as the nation’s fifth-best city in which to live, according to a new study that analyzed the city’s schools and jobs among other areas. The only other area city in the top 20 of the national list was Richardson, which came in 12th. The study came from Niche, which […]
June 29, 2020 A mission to bring more green space to downtown Dallas is getting a boost from developer Shawn Todd. His company, Todd Interests, and his partners at East Quarter have stepped up with a seven-figure gift to help fund the construction of Harwood Park. Harwood Street will bound the 4-acre retreat to the […]
June 29, 2020 The Dallas Regional Chamber is forming a permanent diversity and inclusion council that will be led by a to-be-hired senior vice president. “This will be a key senior position for us moving forward,” chamber president and CEO Dale Petroskey said in a statement. “Both our staff and our board members are in […]
June 29, 2020 Dallas County continued a four-day trend of record coronavirus daily cases Monday – reporting 572 new cases. The county also reported one additional death, an Irving man in his 40s who had underlying high-risk health conditions but had not been hospitalized. Dallas County has now seen 20,737 cases – 7.9 for every […]
June 29, 2020 Texas is extending the deadline for low-income families to apply for a one-time food benefit to replace the value of free or discounted school meals that children have lost during the coronavirus outbreak. Earlier this month, the “Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer” program, or P-EBT, began assisting families with children who have temporarily […]