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…
On Tuesday, maybe for the last time in a long time, Americans voted. Florida, Arizona and Illinois residents cast their ballots as their state governments did the best they can to keep voters and poll workers safe. In Ohio, which also had a primary scheduled for Tuesday, Gov. Mike DeWine…
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…
Food banks and agencies in North Texas expect increased demands on their resources as coronavirus cases continue to grow and are preparing to meet those needs in creative ways. But staff members are also concerned about strains on the system as more people suffer job losses or reduced hours as…
A Dallas ISD student has tested positive for COVID-19, district officials confirmed Tuesday evening. The student, who is enrolled at J.L. Long Middle School, was likely sick with the virus while at school, said Robyn Harris, a district spokeswoman. The student is at home and is doing well, she said…
Starting at 9 p.m. Tuesday, all city-owned playgrounds, golf courses and tennis centers will close to slow the spread of the coronavirus in Dallas, Mayor Eric Johnson announced Tuesday. The city’s open park space and trails will remain open. Public health officials say that getting some fresh air in the…
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…
About 10 years ago, a winter storm passed through North Texas, covering Dallas in a sheet of ice and snow and forcing schools to close for nearly a week. After a few days, Stephen Sekula, a physics professor at Southern Methodist University, started wondering whether there wasn’t a better way…
The true nightmare scenario for the Cowboys’ offseason, the one in which, somehow, Jerry Jones botches the whole thing and forces Cowboys fans to watch as Dak Prescott plays for someone else in 2020, is off the table. As absolutely everyone expected, the Cowboys placed the franchise tag on Prescott…
Growing up in Egypt, Sahar lived in a city near the sunny Mediterranean Sea. In the center of her hometown is a shrine to her great-grandfather, considered a saint in the Muslim faith. But her parents did not require her to wear a hijab, and her mother didn’t wear the…
Dallas public schools will close indefinitely as health officials continue to try to contain the spread of the coronavirus, district officials announced Monday afternoon. The district is on spring break this week. When students return, their classes will be delivered via online distance education, DISD officials said in a statement…
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…
Gov. Greg Abbott is waiving student readiness testing requirements for school districts across the state as districts figure out how to respond to the coronavirus threat. Districts will no longer be required to conduct State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, or STAAR, testing for the 2019-20 school year. The…
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…
Over the last decade and a half, the American press has been bloodied and battered, pushed to the end of its rope by vulture capitalism, evolving technology and economic shocks like the 2008 housing crisis. There was a time when it was hard to own a newspaper and not make…
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…
Things, as you’ve surely noticed, are getting weird. Thursday brought a cascade of bad news, from the critical — the U.S. still isn’t testing nearly enough people for the coronavirus — to the mundane — sports, basically all of them, are canceled for the foreseeable future. Dallas, Texas, the United…
In certain places in Dallas, tax dollars generated from new malls, high-rise condos and upscale restaurants don’t go back to the public. Instead, new revenue is put into special funds and used to promote more nearby development. The names of many of these places, known as districts, are instantly recognizable…
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…
