February 16, 2021 Texas’ power grid operators can’t predict when outages might be over, Electric Reliability Council of Texas officials said in a call with state legislators Tuesday. More than 4 million Texans, many of them in North Texas, are fighting extended power outages. The agency that oversees the state’s power grid is trying to […]
February 16, 2021 Governor Greg Abbott today declared the reform of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) an emergency item this legislative session. In declaring this item an emergency, the Governor is calling on the legislature to investigate ERCOT and ensure Texans never again experience power outages on the scale they have seen over […]
February 16, 2021 As Dallas-Fort Worth notched a new record low temperature of negative 2 degrees Tuesday morning – marking the coldest day in North Texas in 72 years – the power grid was still struggling to heat the homes of hundreds of thousands of North Texans. More than 2 million homes and businesses were […]
February 16, 2021 After the temperature plummeted to record lows and the power turned off across North Texas, this week, Josephine Lopez Paul led more than two dozen volunteers making hundreds of phone calls to their neighbors asking them what was needed to weather the latest storm. Clifton Reese slid over the iced covered streets […]
February 11, 2021 Dallas and Tarrant counties will be responsible for registering and making appointments for more than 100,000 Texans at two federally supported COVID-19 vaccine sites, state officials said Thursday. Each site – one at Fair Park in South Dallas and another at AT&T Stadium in Arlington – will be able to vaccinate up […]
February 11, 2021 During a Thursday press conference, Gov. Greg Abbott said that more announcements are likely “coming soon” about relaxing COVID-19 restrictions in Texas as cases and hospitalizations continue to drop. Abbott spoke at a roundtable discussion in Dallas with small business owners about the state’s role in supporting small businesses during the pandemic. […]
February 11, 2021 Telecom giant Verizon is eyeing a new shipping hub in North Fort Worth. The big distribution facility would be in the Mercantile Center business park near interstate 35W and Loop 820. Verizon and its logistics partner XPO Logistics Supply Chain Inc. are working on a more than 600,000-square-foot warehouse on North Sylvania […]
February 11, 2021 Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers started as a college-town Louisiana fast-food joint named after the founder’s dog. Today, much of the action takes place in Plano, where a team runs the operations for Raising Cane’s 550 restaurants that employ 34,000 people. For the past four years, Raising Cane’s has opened about 60 new […]
February 10, 2021 With more than a half-million people a year moving to Texas, the Lone Star State ranks as one of the country’s top destinations for relocations. The largest numbers of people moving to Texas hail from California, Florida, Louisiana, Illinois, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Georgia and Arizona, according to a new report from the […]
February 10, 2021 New York Stock Exchange president Stacey Cunningham says she doesn’t want to move the storied exchange away from Wall Street but could be forced to do so if New York lawmakers push forward with a financial transactions tax. Cunningham, in a Wall Street Journal op-ed titled “The NYSE isn’t moving – yet,” […]