Is that light at the end of 2020′s very dark tunnel? Here’s the year-ahead outlook for key Dallas-Fort Worth industries
Jobs, air travel, oil prices, online buying and possible Medicaid expansion the topics that could dominate business news headlines in 2021.
With 2020 in the rearview mirror, some vital Dallas-Fort Worth industries see light at the end of the tunnel.(Michael Glenwood/Special Contributor)
Hotel California.
you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave sum up our year of fighting off an invisible virus.
We enter 2021 seeing glimmers of light at the end of the long, pitch-dark and deadly tunnel.
Sherise Assad figured she had a pair of options in a year in which the world got turned upside down by the COVID-19 pandemic.
“You can be one of two people: you can sit back and watch it all go down, or you stand up and try to be someone who does better,” she said.
She chose the latter, and for her efforts she was one of 20 honorees recognized in the Huron Valley Chamber of Commerce’s Rise to the Occasion awards.
Assad s also the reason Jen Hill, HVCC event and communications manager, has been in tears this week overwhelmed by the generosity.
The spotlight illuminated these rich, powerful and philanthropic North Texas business leaders in 2020
Business news columnist Cheryl Hall’s profiles captured the resilience of D-FW leaders during the pandemic.
The downtown Dallas skyline was illuminated in blue in April as part of the nationwide #LightItBlue movement to show support for those fighting COVID-19.(Smiley N. Pool / Staff Photographer)
A winning Super Bowl owner and powerful women business leaders.
Black leaders guiding Dallas’ top business groups during a summer of racial justice unrest here and across the country.
A philanthropic-minded leader working on North Texas’ most pressing pandemic problem, and one seeding the future for life after a vaccine.
Fidelity’s Abby Johnson is rich, powerful and largely unknown
The CEO and largest shareholder of Fidelity Investments keeps a low personal profile while commanding one of the largest financial services companies on the planet.
Abby Johnson(Dale Stephanos/Special contributor)
At 58 years old, Abby Johnson is one of the richest, most powerful people in the world of finance. Yet most people know little about her.
The chairwoman, president, CEO and reportedly the largest individual shareholder of Fidelity Investments her family’s business gives an occasional speech, spends a lot of time at events for clients and
is in regular contact with her legion of employees.
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Letters to the Editor - Three cheers to journalists Sharon Grigsby, Lynda M. Gonzalez and nurse Sam Rowley; the greatest generation; three DMN columns
Readers praise two journalists for their coverage of frontline health care workers, appreciate those who fought in World War II and love three recent columns in The Dallas Morning News.
Rowley (second from left) huddles with Dr. Catherine Chen (right) and other staff members on the Progressive Care Unit of Parkland s COVID-19 Tactical Care Unit. Rowley and Chen were assessing the level of care for patients to determine whether they should be upgraded to the Intensive Care Unit or downgraded out of the TCU. “I anticipate things are going to go poorly,” Rowley said, referencing high travel numbers over the Thanksgiving holiday. “There s not going to be a single thing we can do to stop it. And all we can do is hope that we can keep enough people alive that can defeat this disease.”(Lynda M. Gonz�