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New Year’s Resolution: Look Out For One Another
For longer than the four-plus years I’ve worked here, we’ve called this section Living Well.
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Doctor Visits During COVID-19 Mean Increased Safety Protocols
From virtual consultations to increased safety protocols, visits to the dentist or dermatologist, like everything else, are different in the time of COVID-19.
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Hockamasks Help Refugees
A couple of Hockaday School students responded to the pandemic by creating a nonprofit and giving it a four-word name that tells perhaps half its story.
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Dallas County Reports 2,122 New Positive COVID Cases
As COVID-19 persists and cases continually rise, the Postal Service adopts new strategies to help with the great volume of holiday mail and DART's "Stuff a Bus" event returns to Mockingbird Station in today's bullet points.
Telehealth Replaces Many In-Person Appointments
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has prompted more people to use telehealth visits, rather than in-person appointments, for non-emergency medical advice.
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A Very COVID Christmas
Seeing Santa this year could look a bit like visiting a jailed relative: Expect a transparent barrier to separate guests from the world’s most beloved home invader.
Voices
Thanksgiving and Hozhoji
It’s impossible to predict, but with any luck, November will be bookended by a presidential election and the coming together of families and friends at that uniquely American holiday, Thanksgiving.
Remarkable Women
Fundraiser Knows The Color of Money
Tanya L. Downing’s work as director for the Emergency Medicine Foundation and founder of The Color of Money, a network for fundraisers of color, has taken on new urgency amid the COVID-19 pandemic and renewed focus on racial injustice.
Homeless Teens Need Happy Birthdays, Too
Since 2001, mothers and daughters in the Park Cities have worked together to give back to their communities as members of the National Charity League (NCL).
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Dallas County Reports 808 New COVID-19 Cases, Two Deaths
As COVID-19 cases continue a steady rise in Dallas County, here's what you need to know today.
Greenhill Teens Launch Students for Happiness
Greenhill School student Kelly Meng first founded Happiness Club with her friends to help classmates destress around tests and exams, but the pandemic exposed a need for something more.
Scottie Scheffler Adds Top Rookie Honors to Breakthrough PGA Season
While most of us are ready for 2020 to end, Scottie Scheffler might want this year to keep going.
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Talking Health Care For Texas’ Sake
For years, Texans have known through difficult personal experience that health care in Texas has challenges. Over the last six months, those issues have hit home for millions more.
Society
Support Family Place, Local Businesses With Partners Card
From the tornado that hit North Dallas last year to the COVID-19 pandemic this year, Partners Card organizers have learned to adapt to help meet the community’s needs.
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Dallas ISD, TEA Launch Dashboards To Track COVID-19 Cases
Regardless of whether Dallas ISD parents chose to keep children at home, learning virtually, or felt confident in sending them to school, they were nearly universal in asking for some easy way to track how many cases the district had.
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Patriot Pride: TJ Athletes Stay Strong Despite Setbacks
Wins on the scoreboard are nice, but for coaches and athletes at Thomas Jefferson, it’s a victory these days just to keep playing.
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A Boy’s Take on Masks: Be Nice
I am a fourth grader, but even fourth graders have opinions about things.
Voices
We Should Mentor Younger Students
I have completed around 2,000 days of in-person classroom learning and 71 days of COVID-19-induced virtual learning. It’s clear that my virtual learning experience is far from over.
Society
Celebrating Women Cancer Program Goes Virtual
Baylor Scott & White Dallas Foundation must keep celebrating women, just not in person this year.
