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As salon owners prepare for the first day of work since the shelter-in-place began, May 8, they are sanitizing and changing the rules to fit a new normal.

There wasn’t a single, sudden moment when Paula Masters, the chief executive officer of the Coppell-based bean bag company Fatboy USA , and her staff realized the effect that the coronavirus outbreak could have on a business.

Texas has experienced a 2,000 percent increase in unemployment claims since the coronavirus pandemic two months ago.

As a 16-year-old sophmore at Clark High School, Arbaaz Karim is already too familiar with the mental health issues and alarming suicide rates that teenagers face.

Bars will probably be the last business allowed to reopen in Texas. It’s no surprise. Texas has a complicated relationship with bar owners and liquor stores (though drinking beer at a Dallas Cowboys watch party is generally expected).

Dallas Skyport rendering | Courtesy of Uber In the classic Back to the Future franchise , Marty McFly and Doc Brown traverse time in a flying, souped-up DeLorean.

Gov. Greg Abbott announced Monday that retail stores, restaurants, malls, movie theaters, and museums can open on May 1 at 25 percent capacity in counties with five or more COVID-19 cases.

It seems the Open Texas Facebook group’s prayers were somewhat answered Monday afternoon.

The Storehouse of Collin County seeks the community’s support during “North Texas Giving Tuesday Now” to flatten a new rising COVID-19 curve: neighbors struggling with basic needs due to skyrocketing unemployment.

Shutterstock A statewide strike force, a testing regime, mass testing to identify those who are positive, negative, or virus carriers all sound like they take a page out of George Orwell’s 1984 or Stephen King’s The Stand . Gov.