Lora Paine's summer beach trip to Florida to celebrate a new job now brings back only frustrating memories. Her American Airlines flight from California to Fort Walton Beach turned into a nightmarish weekend of flight delays, cancellations and intermittent sleep in airport terminals.
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08/25/2019
By Todd Davis
Good morning!
Here is a look at the top headlines of the weekend so far.
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Flight cancellations for American Airlines dotted the board at DFW International Airport earlier this year. (Brian Elledge / Staff Photographer)
BUSINESS
[Canceled flights, wrecked vacations, leaky planes: Passenger frustrations with American Airlines rise](
Lora Paine's summer beach trip to Florida to celebrate a new job now brings back only frustrating memories.
Her American Airlines flight from California to Fort Walton Beach turned into a nightmarish weekend of flight delays, cancellations and intermittent sleep in airport terminals.
She spent an extra night at DFW International Airport because of a delayed flight, then an extra day at Las Vegas' McCarran International Airport on her return trip.
"The flight attendants didn't care that water was dripping on me, and I wasn't getting off the plane because I had to start a new job the next day," said Paine.
[American Airlines e]( such as Paine's are plentiful in 2019](.
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Also: Why is [the 'Big Short' investor]( betting big on Grapevine-based GameStop?
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And: [Low home finance costs]( are keeping the D-FW home market hot as the summer season winds down.
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DALLAS
[In South Dallas, City Hall looks to undo decades' worth of damage it caused](
City columnist Robert Wilonsky writes:
There used to be apartments here, jammed so close to each other there was almost no daylight between them. Developers built and built till there was no free space left, because the city didn't notice and, really, the city didn't care. There were homes, too, long ago; but they were knocked down by City Hall. Except for the ones that just fell down by themselves.
Today and for decades â decades, and this is no exaggeration â this area, once a neighborhood until it became what Dallas police called a "war zone" in the early '90s, has looked like pastureland divvied up by concrete and railroad tracks. It's a desolate, verdant sprawl that makes the barren Tenth Street Historic District and the adjacent Bottom neighborhood south of downtown look like thriving metropolises.
[Its nothingness is staggering](. Because this isn't in the middle of nowhere, mind you, but only a few blocks from Fair Park, with downtown's skyline just within reach over treetops.
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Also: Crowds pack Lower Greenville's bars, unfazed by [a horrific crime]( blocks away.
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And: The Dallas police chief is back. Now, [City Hall needs to dispense with secrecy](.
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(Ashley Landis / Staff Photographer)
PHOTO OF THE WEEKEND
[As far as dress rehearsals go, Cowboys' rout of Texans was about as good as it gets](
Dallas Cowboys linebacker Joe Thomas (48) and Houston Texans punter Trevor Daniel (8) dive for a loose ball in the end zone after Thomas blocked a punt by Daniel during the first quarter of an NFL game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Houston Texans on Saturday at AT&T Stadium in Arlington. Thomas recovered the ball in the end zone for a touchdown. If youâre one of those people who puts stock into the concept of a dress rehearsal, if youâre convinced what happens in Week 3 of the preseason can set the tone for the regular season opener, [you can spend the next 15 days feeling good.](
AROUND THE SITE
- Missing child: A missing 6-year-old boy and his mother [were found dead in Waxahachie on Friday night,]( a day after his mother is believed to have abducted him.
- Editorial: [New law enforcement measures]( use guns to collect intelligence, keep violent criminals off the streets.
- Crime: [A DART train struck a man]( who had been firing a gun randomly Friday evening in east Oak Cliff, authorities said.
FINALLY...
[What was the motive for Texas House Speaker's secret meeting?](
Days before a now infamous meeting in which he is accused of asking a political group to target 10 fellow Republicans, Lubbock Rep. Dustin Burrows was selling the Houseâs conservative efforts to a group of influential activists who set the partyâs agenda.
Despite a legislative session top Republicans declared a success, the leader of the political group Empower Texans, Michael Quinn Sullivan, said not enough conservative bills had passed and that some GOP House members could face primary challenges from the right.
Texas Speaker of the House Dennis Bonnen and Burrows say they met with Sullivan in June to protect GOP incumbents and to quell Sullivanâs attacks on them in the Republican primaries. [Sullivan, who secretly recorded the meeting, disputes that characterization]( and says the two lawmakers offered him a quid pro quo.
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