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  Dallas County COVID-19 Page Is Lousy, Funky, Hard to Use and no Surprise

  April 9 at 4 a.m.

  Local officials here are doing a lousy job providing us information about the pandemic. The Dallas County Health Department COVID-19 webpage looks like a DOS-based jigsaw puzzle from the 1990s. You don’t know what DOS was, right? My point exactly. (It was an early and now primitive computer operating system.)...

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  False Alarm: Rangers, Stars, Mavs Games to Stay on YouTube TV

  March 6 at 4 a.m.

  The waiting, always the hardest part, is over for Dallas sports fans. On Thursday, YouTube TV and Sinclair Broadcasting Group, five days removed from an emergency extension that kept Fox Sports Southwest on the streaming service, agreed to a long-term contract extension. That means local broadcasts of the Mavericks, Stars...

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  Dallas YouTube TV Subscribers Hit With Sports Blackout

  February 28 at 4 a.m.

  The notices began filing into YouTube TV's subscribers' inboxes Thursday morning, just after, or just before, the streaming TV service sent out a preemptive tweet. "Starting February 29, 2020," the email's third paragraph read, "you will no longer be able to watch live, on demand, or recorded content from your...

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  Dallas Wants to Give Millions in Tax Breaks to a Failing Pizza Delivery Startup

  January 17 at 4 a.m.

  Dallas plans to offer Zume, a Silicon Valley tech startup, more than $5 million in tax incentives to open a manufacturing hub. The company, once valued at more than $2 billion, has come on hard times after failing to deliver on its early promise of robotic pizza delivery. The city...

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  As Abbott Reconvenes Domestic Terrorism Task Force, Talk Turns to Iran

  January 8 at 4 a.m.

  As tension between the U.S. and Iran turns into conflict, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott warned the public Tuesday about Iranian cyberattacks on Texas' state agencies. Over the last 48 hours, the governor said, more than 10,000 attacks per minute, many of them originating in Iran, have been attempted against the...

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  Dallas Housing Authority Is Using Artificial Intelligence to Reduce Wait Times, and Could Profit Off the Technology

  Friday, November 8, 2019 at 4 a.m.

  Landlords have long complained that red tape prevents them from accepting federal housing vouchers, limiting the places that low-income tenants can live. Those in wealthier, whiter neighborhoods tend to turn voucher-holders away, driving segregation. One bureaucratic slowdown that has particularly frustrated landlords is how long it can take for inspectors from...