For the fourth time in less than a week, Dallas County Health and Human Services reported a record number of new COVID-19 infections Monday afternoon. After recording 234 new cases Sunday, the agency announced 237 positive tests Wednesday. Dallas County remains at its peak seven-day rolling average as businesses around…
The bones of the argument are as familiar as the Cowboys’ underachieving. Texas Democrats want as close to comprehensive voting access as is possible. Texas Republicans, citing the need for election security, want to maintain tight controls over who gets a ballot and who doesn’t, to the chagrin of voting…
Texas is going to offer a little grace to those who would’ve otherwise faced an impossible choice whenever their employer called them back to work amid the ongoing pandemic. And when we say a little, we mean very little. Immediately following Gov. Greg Abbott’s announcement Monday that he would allow…
Sports fans are desperate. As the coronavirus pandemic has meandered through its second month, we’ve forced ourselves to be excited for remote games of HORSE, 10-part documentaries about a Chicago Bulls season that’s already been covered exhaustively and video game versions of our heroes. Previously played games are plentiful, too,…
Three weeks ago, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sent out a press release that seemed weird, but not too weird. The attorney general, never one to avoid a fight with the federal government or any of Texas’ 49 fellow states, had a problem with an order issued by a Colorado…
Dallas County Health and Human Services reports that 112 more people in the county have tested positive for COVID-19. Wednesday’s count is Dallas County’s fourth-highest one-day total of novel coronavirus infections. Five more people in Dallas County have died from the disease. Since the beginning of the outbreak, 99 people…
Monday, Dallas is set to begin taking applications for its novel coronavirus rent and mortgage assistance program. The city isn’t making the program’s website or phone number available ahead of its launch, but Dallas staff revealed Tuesday afternoon just what you’ll need in order to apply, in case you want…
Dallas County Health and Human services reported 135 new cases of the novel coronavirus and 10 deaths Tuesday afternoon. The new infections mark the highest one-day reported total for the county during the ongoing pandemic. Wednesday’s death count is tied for the highest total reported by the county during a…
We may all be in this together, but our opinions about it are breaking down along predictable lines. Monday afternoon, Gov. Greg Abbott debuted his plan to reopen Texas’ restaurants, retailers, malls and movie theaters, despite the ongoing coronavirus crisis in the state and around the world. In North Texas…
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s plan to re-open the state will start with restaurants, movie theaters, malls and retail stores. At a press conference Monday afternoon, Abbott unveiled a three-phase project to get Texas back to business. Phase 1 begins Friday. Thanks to Texas’ continued available hospital capacity, its relatively low…
For the first time since Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins and Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson put much of North Texas in novel coronavirus hibernation in mid-March, the range of activities Dallas residents are allowed to undertake grew significantly last week. Next week, thanks to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, the list…
Over the next couple of weeks, as Gov. Greg Abbott loosens Texas’ statewide coronavirus restrictions and Dallas’ city and county orders fall away or turn into guidelines, it’s going to be on residents themselves, in part, to stay safe from COVID-19. As it turns out, visitors to Dallas’ parks and…
Another Thursday, another set of unemployment numbers that would’ve been unbelievable three months ago. Almost 300,000 Texans applied for unemployment insurance payments over the week that ended April 13, 2020. According to an analysis from WalletHub, that’s more than a 20-fold increase from the same period in 2019, when just…
Dallas renters who are in over their heads because of the COVID-19 pandemic can feel a little more secure in their homes. Wednesday, the Dallas City Council passed both a mortgage and rental assistance package, as well as tougher protections for those facing evictions. Beginning in May, Dallas residents who’ve…
Following a unanimous vote by the City Council Wednesday, Dallas’ disaster declaration will remain in place through at least May 12. The declaration, which gives City Manager T.C. Broadnax emergency powers during the novel coronavirus pandemic, will now be tied to Texas’ disaster declaration. If Gov. Greg Abbott extends the…
Early in the pandemic, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick just wanted to kill granny. Now he wants to throw as many of us overboard as necessary to bring back his true love, America’s economy. As he so often does, Patrick appeared on Tucker Carlson on Monday night. After sounding a…
Dallas County is set to shelter in place until May 15, at least for the time being. After a contentious debate Tuesday afternoon, Dallas County Commissioners Theresa Daniel and Elba Garcia sided with Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins and county medical experts pushing the order two weeks past its previous…
The oil industry moved into truly uncharted territory Monday afternoon. U.S. crude oil prices, for the first time in history, dropped below $0 per barrel. A person could, if he or she had the means to do so, have made more than $35 for each barrel of oil he or…
It’s starting to look a lot like the final result of the legal battle isn’t going to matter very much. Regardless of whether the federal courts finally determine that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott did, in fact, have the right to effectively ban abortion during the novel coronavirus pandemic, thousands of…
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott sounded like he’d been listening to medical experts Friday afternoon as he announced his initial plans for broadening the state’s economy. As the state tries to get back to the old normal, the new normal will include widely expand COVID-19 testing and tracing, as well as…
Just because something’s obvious doesn’t mean it isn’t true. Or easy to do. Texas House Democrats’ plan to begin bringing the state’s economy out of hibernation is right in line with those trotted out by health experts across the state. It isn’t groundbreaking, but it does extend beyond many of…
Since being drafted in 2016, Dak Prescott has been a rarity among Cowboys players. He’s carefully avoided controversy at all times and maintained a squeaky-clean image when teammates, most notably Ezekiel Elliott, have proved completely unable to keep themselves out of the headlines. Then came the novel coronavirus. Prescott, like…
