Dallas mayor issues emergency stay-at-home regulations, : Your Tuesday evening news roundup

Stay-at-home, restaurants are winning, and families disrupted  [Evening roundup] [NEWS]( | [BUSINESS]( | [SPORTS]( | [HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS]( | [ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT]( | [FOOD]( | [THINGS TO DO]( | [OPINION]( 03/23/2020 By Emily Dunn Good Evening! Here is a look at the top headlines of the day. 🔎 Prefer the online view? It's [here.]( From left, Rocky Vaz, Dallas director of emergency management, assistant city manager Jon Fortune and city manager T.C. Broadnax listen as Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson announces the city will limits groups 50; close bars, fitness facilities, and amusement centers; and limit restaurants to takeout, delivery and drive-thru only in response to the new coronavirus during a press conference at city hall on Monday, March 16, 2020, in Dallas. (Smiley N. Pool / Staff Photographer) CORONAVIRUS [Dallas mayor issues emergency stay-at-home regulations in response to county’s order]( Mayor Eric Johnson on Tuesday issued emergency regulations that would [enforce the county’s stay-at-home order in parts of the city that don’t fall under the county’s jurisdiction](. The orders would affect parts of five counties — Collin, Dallas, Denton, Kaufman and Rockwall — that the city encompasses. All Dallas City Council committee meetings unrelated to addressing the new coronavirus also are canceled. Also: Collin County orders residents to stay home, [but businesses can stay open](. And: Dallas County adds [14 new coronavirus cases]( and a fifth death. ADVERTISEMENT  BUSINESS [Don’t blame housing — this time the home market hopes to escape the worst of the economic downturn]( With the economy slamming on the brakes, homebuilders are potentially facing the greatest falloff in business in a decade. [That’s a big concern in North Texas]( which leads the country in single-family home construction and sales.  Retail: Dallas’ stay-at-home rule exempts [retail employees]( who are working to fill online orders.   Jobs: Texas’ unemployment claims system is being [overwhelmed by a "significant" surge in layoffs](.  RESTAURANTS [Furlough Kitchen: Local restaurant group launches ‘popup nonprofit’ with free meals for laid-off hospitality workers]( Beginning March 25, laid-off hospitality workers can receive a free pickup meal each day Monday through Saturday at Furlough Kitchen — a collaboration with Front Burner Restaurants, Vestals Catering in East Dallas, and CitySquare, a local nonprofit dedicated to ameliorating the effects of poverty. Front Burner Restaurants is the restaurant innovation lab behind concepts such as Whiskey Cake, Legacy Hall, Mexican Sugar, Sixty Vines and others. [CEO Randy DeWitt says his restaurants are taking care of their own employees "pretty well."](  Also: Margaritas-to-go and [‘baller survival kits’]( Dallas restaurants launch some very extra takeout deals.   And: Seven locally-owned North Texas restaurants are [offering heat-and-eat family meals]( and bake-at-home sweets. More: How a butcher shop in Dallas is [thriving during coronavirus crisis](.  ADVERTISEMENT (Lynda M. Gonzalez/The Dallas Morning News) PHOTO OF THE DAY Russell Roden, an attorney for the Civil Division of the Dallas County District Attorney's Office, rides his bicycle to work in a near-empty Downtown Dallas during the early morning rush hour on Tuesday, March 24, 2020. A stay at home order was issued by Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins to go in effect at 11:59 p.m. on Monday night but many people are still required to work. EDITORS' PICKS - Health: What it means to be [immunocompromised](. - Sports: The [Tokyo Olympics]( have been postponed until 2021. - Entertainment: Memes away: The [last art opening in Dallas]( made us laugh. ADVERTISEMENT FINALLY... [Our family — like all families — is disrupted. But Mom takes it all in stride]( From Richardson freelance writer and former health and fitness reporter Leslie Barker: I transferred her Dallas Morning News subscription from her apartment to the rehab facility, so she could keep starting her day, as she always does, by doing the crossword puzzle. We brought photographs, photo books of weddings and trips, her Bible, her knitting. We brought spiral notebooks so she could write down what she thought she might forget. [We wanted everything to be as normal as possible.]( Mom is rarely rattled, and her calm has shown through. Once or twice before the lockdown began, she expressed more surprise than dismay about the situation: "So you can’t come up and see me?" she asked. And then when we shook our heads, she just said, "Oh, wow." 👋 That's all for this afternoon! For up-to-the-minute news and analysis, check out [DallasNews.com](. Share the love! If you like this newsletter, please forward this email to a friend and [check out our other newsletters here](. Do you have feedback? Send your thoughts, questions, praise and corrections to [newsletter-feedback@dallasnews.com](mailto:newsletter-feedback@dallasnews.com?subject=). STAY CONNECTED WITH US [Unsubscribe]( | [Free newsletters]( | [Dallasnews.com]( | [Subscriber login]( | [Privacy Policy]( | [Contact us]( Copyright 2020 - [The Dallas Morning News, 1954 Commerce Street, Dallas, TX 75201, United States](