How COVID-19 is changing how restaurants do business

By Joshua Skinner Medill Reports With Texas’ stay at home order expiring on May 1, restaurants are slowly moving from curbside pick-up to allowing a limited number of diners. New regulations laid out by Gov. Greg Abbott allow restaurants to operate at 25% capacity, even with new cases of COVID-19 popping up across the state. […]

Many Texas businesses will remain closed despite expiration of stay-at-home order

By Joshua Skinner Medill Reports With Texas’ stay-at-home order set to expire at the end of April, many businesses are preparing to operate in a limited fashion. Others have decided to remain closed for financial, liability, or safety reasons. But on the journey to bring the state economy back to life, not all businesses are […]

Texas legislators grapple with when to reopen state economy

By Joshua Skinner Medill Reports Coronavirus deaths in America continue to increase, but that hasn’t stopped some states from beginning to plan how to reopen their economies. Among them is Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who is preparing a measured plan to reopen the state. But some state legislators believe slower isn’t better, and shutting down […]