For Labor Day, meet some of the people who make Dallas work.
Today is Labor Day, and if your office is like our office, you’re waking up late and enjoying the final day of a three-day weekend. The newsroom is quiet today, which means FrontBurner will also be fairly quiet. But if you’re in the mood for some reading material, we have some apropos options.
For instance, this 2024 story features the hardest-working cooks in the area—Dallas ISD’s food and nutrition workers. We visited a handful of schools to highlight their work and spoke with head chef Trina Nelson about what it takes to feed roughly 144,000 finicky palates every day. Read here.
In 2021, as families juggled work, pandemic homeschooling, and all the other duties that come with parenthood, Will Maddox spoke with mothers about their balancing acts. Will observed one difference between his experience as a parent and the experiences of the women he talked to for his story: “But here is one thing that never happened to me: No one asked me when my son was born if I would leave the workforce or go part-time; yet, women get asked this all the time.” Read here.
In 2023, Natalie Weiner took a look at the state’s only labor talk radio show, The Worker’s Beat. Broadcast on community radio station KNON 89.3 FM, the hourlong show has been on the air for four decades.You can catch the show every Saturday morning at 9 a.m., and you can read Natalie’s story here.
And finally, if you are looking for something to do today, we have something for you, too. That’s below.