Business
March 10, 2022
Why These Texans Joined the Great Resignation
The pandemic has spurred record numbers of Americans to reinvent their lives by quitting their jobs.
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Health
December 1, 2021
How More Efficient Health Care Has Worsened COVID Surges in Texas
A drive toward optimization and hospital consolidation has left the state with less capacity per capita.
Business
September 15, 2021
How Mark Cuban Plans to Dunk on the Drug Industry
The billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks has teamed up with a polymath and put his name on a company that aims to change the pharmaceutical game.
Business
June 29, 2021
New Luby’s Owner Won’t Tear Up the Menu (or Hold the Mayo)
The Chicago investor buying 32 of the beloved and beleaguered Texas cafeteria chain's remaining locations says the "food is not the problem.”
Business
February 5, 2021
Texas Payday Lenders Get Millions in Pandemic Relief Money
Many short-term lenders receive government help even as their ultrahigh interest rates trap vulnerable customers in debt.
Health
December 2, 2020
This ER Doctor and Brownsville Native Is Advising Biden’s COVID-19 Response
Robert Rodriguez tended to patients in the Rio Grande Valley as cases surged last summer, and he’s taken that experience to serving on the president-elect’s pandemic task force.
Health
November 11, 2020
Texas Hits 1 Million COVID-19 Cases—More Than Any Other State
A new surge in infections is underway, though transmission rates are down in some areas, and new treatments are reducing the death rate.