All Texans are now living in the same world Dallas residents have been inhabiting for a couple of days now. Effective midnight Friday, all bars, restaurants, health clubs and schools in the state must shut down until at least April 3. Restaurants can still provide takeout, drive-through and delivery service…
A Richardson man in his 60s has died due to the effects of the coronavirus, Dallas County health officials reported Thursday. The man, who was not identified by health officials, did not have any high-risk health conditions. He was one of 20 new cases of the COVID-19 reported by Dallas…
Jim Anderson and his wife are living in what could be described as a very well-run, nicely appointed, accommodating, fairly friendly minimum security prison in San Antonio. They can leave their small suite at will to walk the grounds, but the area where they are allowed to walk is surrounded…
Oooh boy. Texas Sen. John Cornyn has some thoughts on the novel coronavirus. Wednesday, the man who’s running for reelection during a pandemic, the same one who tweeted out a picture of himself drinking a Corona at a bar over the weekend — he’s so funny — decided to smear Chinese…
Texas Rangers opening day shoved into May. Dallas Mavericks playoff games awkwardly played in August. Texas Motor Speedway’s NASCAR race postponed into a murky future. Golf’s Byron Nelson Classic canceled altogether. Courtesy of the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic, even sports — our escape from reality — can’t escape reality. “Out of an…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will test all residents and staff at an Arlington retirement home where a man died after after contracting COVID-19, Gov. Greg Abbott announced Wednesday. The man, Patrick James, lived with his wife at Texas Masonic Retirement Center in Arlington. James was hospitalized Thursday…
Testing is ramping up and so is the number of cases of COVID-19 in Dallas County. Eleven additional individuals have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, which causes COVID-19, according to Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins. Thirty-nine people have now been discovered to have the virus in the county. According…
By now you have seen X-many lists of answers to all the questions people are asking. So I thought I’d work on a list of answers to questions people are not asking. These are questions people may not want to ask because they fear the questions may not be politically…
Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins has warned throughout the ongoing coronavirus crisis that testing was behind the reality on the ground. He’s starting to look prophetic. Tuesday morning, Dallas County reported nine additional positive tests for the novel coronavirus, bringing the county’s total number of positive test to 28. Five…
Nineteen people have now tested positive for the novel coronavirus in Dallas County, according to new information from the county health department. The department confirmed five new cases Monday. Three of the people who tested positive live in Dallas. One lives in Farmers Branch and the other is not a…
Here’s where we stand, as of Monday morning: There are 14 confirmed positive cases of the novel coronavirus in Dallas County. That’s up from eight Friday afternoon. Thirteen of those case have been linked to travel, be it international, domestic or on a cruise. Collin County has reported eight cases…
If I could have one wish, which I can’t, it would be that people would stop telling me not to panic. Panic is a personal matter. I don’t need public officials or editorial writers telling me whether to panic or not. And, by the way, nothing they say is going…
As events are canceled across the city and businesses instruct employees to work from home due to COVID-19, another facet of life was affected last weekend: religion. All over the DFW area, houses of worship suspended in-person services, with some moving to virtual, livestreamed services. This left many pondering what…
Alex Jones is out here trying to get people killed. The Austin-based conspiracy theorist got arrested for drunk driving this week after his wife called Austin cops to report a domestic disturbance. On Infowars, Jones’ dystopian nightmare of a website, the man who disputed whether the Sandy Hook massacre actually…
Coronavirus well and truly landed in Dallas Thursday night. Five additional Dallas County residents tested positive for the virus, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said. Importantly, one of those five who tested positive has no known travel history. Dallas has crossed a key threshold — the virus has been passed…
As reports of a new influenza epidemic sweeping the coast alarmed residents, Dallas’ chief doctor offered reassurances. “The general health situation in Dallas is good,” he told a reporter for The Dallas Morning News. The disease wasn’t much worse than the common flu, he claimed. It was 1918, and the…
For a few moments Sunday evening and as this week got started, we actually felt a little bad for Ted Cruz. At the Conservative Political Action Conference a couple of weeks ago, Cruz shook hands with a man later diagnosed as having been infected with the coronavirus. Cruz did the…
A Tarrant County resident tested presumptive positive for COVID-19, health officials there announced Tuesday evening. The person is the sixth reported case of the novel coronavirus in North Texas and the 21st in the state, according to Texas Health and Human Services.
Dallas County reported its first case of the novel coronavirus after an out-of-state traveler tested “presumptive positive” for the disease, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins announced Tuesday afternoon. Jenkins described the person as “a 77-year-old out-of-state traveler with extensive travel history” and said the person is being treated at a Dallas-area…
The wife and child of a Frisco man who tested “presumed positive” Monday for the novel coronavirus have also tested positive for the disease, Collin County officials said Tuesday. County officials said the man traveled to Silicon Valley for business in late February. Santa Clara County, California, has been the…
During the United States’ last big infectious disease crisis, Dallas went first. On Sept. 30, 2014, Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian national who’d recently traveled to Dallas, tested positive for Ebola, setting off weeks of fear and uncertainty. Two nurses who treated Duncan, Nina Pham and Amber Vinson, also contracted…
Collin County health officials have identified a Frisco man as a “presumptive positive” case of the novel coronavirus. The man, who is in his late 30s, had recently traveled to California, where 114 cases of the virus have been confirmed, said Collin County Judge Chris Hill. The man is in…
