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As the demand for coronavirus vaccines continues to outpace the supply, the newly approved Johnson & Johnson vaccine came as encouraging and much

White House and Detroit officials tried to limit fallout after Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan initially declined to accept an allocation of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine.

State says Detroit declined 6,200 doses of Johnson & Johnson vaccines. City says it had enough, will take shots in future for new vaccine site.

TTI founder, philanthropist Paul Andrews dies. He built an international super power Fort Worth Star-Telegram 3/2/2021 Luke Ranker, Fort Worth Star-Telegram Mar. 1—FORT WORTH — When Paul Andrews lost his job at General Dynamics, he didnt wait around for a new opportunity — he created his own. Andrews, founder and CEO of TTI Inc., knew there was a growing market for electronics components and began selling parts out of his Fort Worth garage as Tex-Tronics. It was 1971 and...

Detroit — The battle to keep the auto show in the Motor City isnt over yet.  City Council on Tuesday sent a resolution to a committee for review. It urges the Detroit Auto Dealers Association to reconsider relocating the North American International Auto Show "from the TCF Center in 2021 and continue its sustained presence in Detroit, by honoring the contract it signed in 2018 to hold the show in Cobo (now the TCF Center), each year through 2026." Were offering a great deal on all-acce...

Mortuary service workers Frontline workers, including child care and pre-K through high school staff, and workers at congregate care facilities Food processing and agricultural workers But the reality on the ground is more complicated than that, as a fragmented public vaccine rollout of unprecedented size and scale continues to expand and pick up speed. And tensions are being heightened by a supply shortage, leaving state and local health officials scrambling to get as many shots in arms as pos...

Highways that destroyed Black neighborhoods are crumbling. Some want to undo that legacy CNN 2/27/2021 By Matt McFarland, CNN Business © Mario Villafuerte/Bloomberg/Getty Images Motorists drive their vehicles along Interstate 20 in Shreveport, Louisiana, in a file photo from 2007. Njeri Camara, 61, cant visit the Shreveport, Louisiana home where she was born. Like many Black homes and neighborhoods across the country in the 1960s, it was bulldozed to clear space for highway...

Cowboys news: Conflicting reports about Dak Prescott contract negotiations The news you may have missed from Tuesday Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images On Tuesday, news broke that the Cowboys front office has had negotiations with Dak Prescott’s agent about getting a long-term contract ironed out. Apparently those negotiations left the team feeling optimistic about a deal getting done. According to a source, Cowboys vice president Stephen Jones has had recent conversations with Prescott�...

Residents in cities and school districts throughout the Red River Valley will be going to the polls May 1 to determine who will serve on city councils and as school trustees for the coming year. In some instances, voters will decide the fate of bond elections and other matters pertinent to municipalities and school districts. North Lamar ISD residents are to vote on a $51.55 million bond referendum with five separate propositions, and Prairiland ISD constituents will decide the fate of a $7.5 m...

City officials: Proposed Detroit charter revisions could spur fiscal crisis Detroit — Proposed revisions to Detroits City Charter would spur an "imminent fiscal crisis" that would send the city $3.4 billion into debt within four years, trigger placement of an emergency manager and violate terms of its bankruptcy order, city finance officials warned in a memo released late Monday.  The grim financial outlook was detailed in a Feb. 19 memorandum distributed Monday evening to the Detroit Cit...