A few days after Easter, the Police Department in Lubbock received a call from a concerned employee of a car dealership on the southwest side of the Panhandle town. Management had continued to flout safety orders imposed by Gov. Greg Abbott, part of an effort to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, according to […]Read More
According to Republican leaders of the Senates in Washington and in Austin, the next round of federal coronavirus legislation ought to include blanket liability protection for companies that reopen in the face of the pandemic. The goal is to protect them from whatever might go wrong as the economy comes out of its deep freeze. […]Read More
Gov. Greg Abbott could make an announcement as soon as Friday about reopening a wide range of Texas businesses amid the coronavirus pandemic, including restaurants, hair salons and retail outlets. During a series of radio interviews Wednesday, Abbott gave the most details yet about the highly anticipated announcement, which he has been previewing since he […]Read More
Politics are not on most people’s minds right now. It’s just noise, a distraction from the pandemic, family, friends and work. As it should be. But 2020 is still an election year, and it has become an even weirder one than you might have suspected. The primary runoffs have already been delayed. Super Tuesday might […]Read More
To help keep doctors’ offices, nursing homes and hospitals open during the coronavirus outbreak, Texas officials are recommending the state increase payments to health providers to the tune of $334 million. State health officials want approval from Gov. Greg Abbott and a panel of state lawmakers on the Legislative Budget Board to pay more to […]Read More
In the era of lockdown and economic collapse, not all small businesses are equal. Across Texas, owners of small engineering firms, retail shops, restaurants and countless other enterprises were in a Darwinian scramble to stay afloat in recent days as they competed for a piece of a massive federal forgivable loan program to help keep […]Read More
Early in every economic crisis, the people in charge turn to their financial folks to ask whether things are as bad as they seem. Answering a question like that is tricky business. You don’t want to overstate things — to cause an economy to shudder just by saying there’s a big chill in the air. […]Read More
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