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Residents and Activists Oppose McKinney Concrete Batch Plant

Residents and Activists Oppose McKinney Concrete Batch Plant

COVID-19 Surge Slams Dallas Employees Leaving Hundreds in Quarantine

COVID-19 Surge Slams Dallas Employees Leaving Hundreds in Quarantine

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Here's Why Grocery Stores Might Not Be Coming to Dallas' Food Deserts Anytime Soon

By Jacob Vaughn
Jan 5, 2022

While Dallas tries to solve its food desert problem, residents are left to fend for themselves.
With Omicron Driving COVID Surge, New Testing Sites Opening Up Around Dallas

By Patrick Strickland
Jan 5, 2022

Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of positive cases in Texas is hitting historic highs thanks to the highly contagious omicron variant. Although some medical experts say the variant could be less lethal than others before it, hospitalizations in Texas this week doubled amid a shortage of...
Last Stand: Arlington City Council to Vote on New Gas Wells Near Daycare Center

By Jacob Vaughn
Jan 4, 2022

Since 2020, Arlington residents have been fighting against a French energy conglomerate that wants to install three additional gas wells near a daycare center. That fight will come to a head at a special-called meeting tonight.
The Kids Are Getting COVID

By Jacob Vaughn
Jan 3, 2022

Pediatric COVID-19 cases and and subsequent hospitalizations are surging across the country.
‘Very Concerned’: Dallas County Raises COVID-19 Risk Level to Red

By Jacob Vaughn
Dec 30, 2021

As COVID-19 cases surge across the country, Dallas County is urging residents to do what they can to slow the spread of the virus.
Texas Runs Low on the Monoclonal Antibody Effective Against Omicron

By Simone Carter
Dec 29, 2021

As COVID-19 cases skyrocket after the Christmas holiday, some infusion centers have run out of monoclonal antibody treatment.
No, You Won't Get 'Vaccine AIDS' If You Have Sex With the Vaccinated

By Jacob Vaughn
Dec 29, 2021

People are claiming the COVID-19 vaccines are causing a syndrome similar to AIDS. This isn't true.
UT Southwestern Medical Center Warns COVID-19 Hospitalizations Are Spiking Again in DFW

By Patrick Strickland
Dec 23, 2021

With more than 5,700 coronavirus-related deaths in Dallas County to date, we’re just a couple months shy of the two-year anniversary of COVID-19 in Texas, and earlier this month, the state reported its first case of the new omicron variant. This week, the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center warned...
North Texas Experts Fear a 'Perfect Storm' Will Drive Post-Holiday COVID-19 Surge

By Michael Murney
Dec 22, 2021

Dr. Erin Carlson was "horrified" to learn that unvaccinated people had regularly been visiting her 84-year-old father, who suffers from kidney failure and other underlying conditions, without masks. When Carlson, a professor of public health at the University of Texas at Arlington, asked her elderly mother why they'd been allowing...
Frisco Doctors Sent to Prison for Medicare Fraud Involving Dishing Out Drugs 'Like Candy'

By Jacob Vaughn
Dec 9, 2021

Two doctors involved in a Texas-based healthcare fraud scheme were sentenced to over two decades in federal prison and ordered to pay tens-of-millions of dollars in restitution.
Dallas Puts Dollar Stores in the Crosshairs As It Eyes New Options for Food Deserts

By Jacob Vaughn
Dec 8, 2021

Dallas wants to bring more food options to underserved communities like Highland Hills, which is in a food desert. Some think more regulations on dollar stores could be the answer.
This Thanksgiving, Here's Some Tips for Talking to Unvaxxed Family about Getting the Jab

By Simone Carter
Nov 25, 2021

Ahead of Thanksgiving dinner, experts provide tips for encouraging holdouts to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
Military Veterans Could Help Decide the Future of THC in Texas

By Jacob Vaughn
Nov 17, 2021

Texas is in a legal battle with companies over a THC market that has exploded in the last year or so following enactment of federal and state laws that legalized hemp. In the middle of it all are military veterans who are seeking relief from physical and emotional pain and rely upon cannabis to deliver it.
Monoclonal Antibodies Treatment for COVID Lags Because of a Lack of Promotion

By Michael Murney
Nov 1, 2021

If you’re older than 12 and test positive for COVID-19, you most likely qualify to receive monoclonal antibody treatment on Texas’ dime. For most, the largest barrier to getting the early-stage COVID-19 treatment has been knowing that it exists at all, according to a CNN report published last week. In...
Texans Would Trade Three Years of Life to Keep Drinking Liquor, Survey Says

By Simone Carter
Oct 30, 2021

Texans would rather lose three years of life than quit drinking alcohol, a recent survey suggests.
Lawsuit Alleges Frisco Dentist Left Drill Bit in Patient's Jaw

By Jacob Vaughn
Oct 28, 2021

Months after undergoing dental surgery at Stonebriar Facial and Oral Surgery in Frisco, Indeera Musa claims X-rays revealed a piece of a drill bit used during the procedural was accidentally left inside her jaw, according to a lawsuit filed this year.
Mayor Eric Johnson Tests Positive For 'Breakthrough' COVID-19 Case

By Jacob Vaughn
Oct 27, 2021

Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson came down with a breakthrough case of COVID-19 along with over 11,000 others in the county.
Denton Nonprofit The Art Room Wants To Heal Us Through Art

By Desiree Gutierrez
Oct 26, 2021

For many people, compounding daily responsibilities, especially when paired with pandemic-induced isolation, bring on anxiety and other mental health ailments.
Dallas-Fort Worth Colleges and Universities Could Get $200 Million for Building and Renovation

By Michael Murney
Oct 21, 2021

North Texas colleges and universities could be receiving big upgrades. On Tuesday morning, state lawmakers reached a last-minute deal on additional funding for higher education construction projects across the state. The bill, which now awaits Gov. Greg Abbott's signature, will funnel more than $200 million into building and renovating new...
'We Don't Need Your Lectures, Thanks Mate': Even the Australians Hate Ted Cruz

By Patrick Strickland
Oct 18, 2021

The Observer has a long, storied history of documenting the people out there who take pleasure in blasting U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz. Now, we’d like to introduce you Michael Gunner, the chief minister of Australia’s Northern Territory. On Sunday, Gunner joined the dearly held tradition. In a statement posted to...

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