April 14, 2020 Mayor Eric Johnson on Tuesday called for a Thursday night citywide ovation for workers on the front lines during the COVID-19 pandemic. The mayor wants people to step outside their front doors for about 5 minutes at 7 p.m. Thursday and cheer for health care workers, police officers, firefighters, park rangers, code […]
Dallas can expect to receive at least $270 million in federal relief funds to help the city with expenses related to the coronavirus pandemic. But the city’s anticipated revenue losses, coupled with an increase in costs to provide services, are still likely to have a big impact on its $3.8 billion budget for the fiscal […]
April 16, 2020 ‐ The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development jointly announced the following new residential construction statistics for March 2020: Building Permits Privately‐owned housing units authorized by building permits in March were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,353,000. This is 6.8 percent (±1.1 percent) below […]
The number of people filing for unemployment climbed by another 5.2 million last week, as the toll of the nation’s economic dive amid the pandemic continues to mount. That number is down from the revised 6.6 million in the week that ended April 4. But in the past four weeks, a total of 22 million […]
April 15, 2020 A state judge said Wednesday afternoon that all voters in Texas afraid to contract COVID-19 through in-person voting should be allowed to vote by mail during the pandemic. State district judge Tim Sulak of the 353rd Disrict Court in Travis County said he will issue a temporary injunction allowing voters who feared […]
April 15, 2020 The economic revival advisory panel created by President Donald Trump is stacked with North Texas connections. Besides sports team owners Jerry Jones and Mark Cuban, the panel includes a host of CEOs of companies based in Dallas-Fort Worth, as well as parent companies of businesses located in the region. Trump identified 202 […]
April 15, 2020 The U.S. Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program could run out of money by this week or beginning of next week, Texas banking and government officials say. The SBA has already approved Paycheck Protection Program applications that total $247.5 billion in loans, as of Monday, according to SBA data obtained by the […]
April 15, 2020 Andrew Witty, a top executive at UnitedHealth Group, is taking a leave of absence to work on a coronavirus vaccine. Witty, who serves as the president of UnitedHealth and as CEO of the company’s Optum business arm, will be co-leading the World Health Organization’s efforts to develop a vaccine for COVID-19, the […]
April 15, 2020 Dr. Paul Hain, Chief Medical Officer & Divisional Senior Vice President of Market Delivery for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas, visited with the DRC to discuss COVID-19 and the impacts its had on the health care industry. www.dallaschamber.org/qa-with-dr-paul-hain-blue-cross-and-blue-shield-of-texas/
April 15, 2020 MD Medical Group will be offering free drive-thru COVID-19 testing at nine of its DFW clinics. The tests will still require patients to be screened for flu and strep throat prior to COVID-19 testing, and appointments are required. The state of Texas has some of the worst testing rates, and researchers predict […]