The latest update on outbreaks in Colorado includes a slew of entries related to fire and police agencies, with one city Pueblo suffering infections across the width and breadth of its public safety departments. And that only scratches the surface when it comes to COVID-19 s impact on businesses and other enterprises across the state.
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment considers an entity an outbreak after two or more COVID-19 cases among residents, staffers or other people connected to a specific location are confirmed within a fourteen-day period, or two or more cases of respiratory illness with an onset of symptoms within a fourteen-day period are paired with at least one additional COVID-19 diagnosis. The vast majority of businesses and facilities identified as outbreaks remain open, while working with the department to monitor symptoms and prevent future infections.
Macy’s is closing 45 stores, including two in Dallas-Fort Worth
The closings in Denton and Lewisville are among the 125 that Macy’s said last year it would close by 2023.
After the two closings, Macy s will still operate nine stores in Dallas-Fort Worth in 2021 including this one at Town East Mall in Mesquite.(Ben Torres / Special Contributor)
Macy’s said it will close two local stores permanently as part of a plan announced last year to close 125 locations by 2023.
Employees at Music City Mall (formerly Vista Ridge) in Lewisville and Golden Triangle Mall in Denton were told of the plans to close on Tuesday.
It’s been a grim year for San Antonians, much less the world. The pandemic has cost an enormous number of lives, wreaked economic havoc, isolated families and loved ones, and dramatically shifted how we work and live. While the arrival of vaccines offers us hope for change in the coming months, the devastation from the public health and social dislocations of the coronavirus are likely to linger far beyond, perhaps for years. Yet, even as our political and civic leaders appear to have only recently discovered that there are real problems of poverty and underemployment in San Antonio problems that a pandemic made obvious in miles-long lines for the Food Bank’s offerings there are some eternal verities about the city. There are a whole set of public issues, some real and some delusional, that seems to shape public discourse and government efforts year after year and decade after decade.
- City of Prince George handout photo City crews are cleaning up a water main break on Southridge Avenue near O Grady Road. The water main in the College Heights area broke on Wednesday morning, causing most of the Vista Ridge subdivision to lose water service. article continues below
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A F-35A fighter jet flies over the Air Force Academy Friday, April 17, 2020, to honor the Class of 2020. The senior cadets graduated early because of COVID-19 the next day on the terrazzo at the center of campus rather than Falcon Stadium. (The Gazette, Christian Murdock) CHRISTIAN MURDOCK/THE GAZETTE
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The class of 2020 toss their hats into the air as the Thunderbirds fly over Saturday, April 18, 2020, at the conclusion of the Air Force Academy graduation on the terrazzo of the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. The graduation was a closed ceremony at the center of campus rather than Falcon Stadium to allow the cadets to stay 8 feet apart. The cadets didn t march on stage to receive their diplomas and high fives and hugs were banned. The academy graduated 967 cadets. (The Gazette, Christian Murdock)