Dallas is better when it's boring, 10 movies worth streaming, Cowboys miss out on key years: Your weekend roundup

Shootout at a strip club, from a security guard's perspective  [Morning roundup]( 01/31/2021 By Todd Davis Good morning! Here is a look at the top headlines of the weekend so far. 🌞 Weather: After a day off, Old Man Winter is back on the job. Temperatures peak in the high 50s Sunday and drop to the mid 30s at night, but precipitation won't be a factor. 🔎 Prefer the online view? It's [here.]( State Rep. John Turner, a Democrat who represents House District 114, sits in his Dallas office on Tuesday in Dallas. (Lynda M. González / Staff Photographer) POLITICS [For Dallas Democrat John Turner, politics is a family affair]( John Turner grew up going to meet and greets at county fairs, listening to returns on the radio on election nights and riding on floats in town parades with the message: "Make a note: Vote for Jim Turner." Jim Turner, John’s father, served his East Texas constituents as mayor of Crockett, as a state representative, a state senator and a congressman during a 24-year political career. His mother, Ginny, was president of the local school board. "Some of that excitement did rub off on me," said Turner, who is now in his second term as a state representative for House District 114 in northern Dallas. "It put in my mind that I’d enjoy being in politics if the opportunity ever arose." Like his father, who co-chaired the congressional Blue Dogs, Turner is a centrist Democrat in a Republican-leaning district. [But in today’s hyper-charged partisan political atmosphere, is there space for centrists in politics?](  Editorial: Ken Paxton’s end zone celebration dance overshadows [an immigration ruling](.   Carl P. Leubsdorf: How long will [Trump’s influence]( on the GOP linger?  ADVERTISEMENT BUSINESS [Feds say Plano man used company cards for $1.6M in personal expenses, including plane tickets, laser tag]( Steven Edward Duety, 45, was indicted Tuesday on 10 counts — nine of wire fraud and one of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. He made an initial court appearance Friday. According to the U.S. attorney’s office for the Northern District of Texas, from 2015 to 2019 Duety was the fleet manager for Builders FirstSource — a Dallas-based Fortune 500 company that says it’s the country’s largest building materials supplier. That position gave him access to credit cards that were supposed to be used for expenses related to the company’s vehicle fleet. Instead, authorities allege, [he and a relative used the cards to make personal purchases]( as well as to buy inventory for their candle businesses, including one named Steves the Man Candles.  Also: Walmart is offering [online grocery delivery for free]( but not forever.   And: [American Airlines]( wants to issue $1.1 billion in stock after surge from renegade investors.  ADVERTISEMENT AROUND THE SITE - Crime: Man who’d been kicked out of Fort Worth strip club is shot by security guard during [brief shootout](. - Sports: [The Cowboys missed their chance]( to capitalize on the momentum built in 2016. - Arts and Entertainment: Here are [10 Sundance Film Festival titles]( worth streaming. FINALLY... Sorry, Dallas, but boring works here Architecture critic Mark Lamster writes: Some of the best architecture in Dallas is of the bureaucratic variety. The bungalow residential housing of the M streets in Old East Dallas qualifies in this respect; these neighborhoods are "boring," with their regular streets and conventional houses of similar scale set one next to another. But that is boring in the best sense. [Alas, Dallas has a paucity of boring architecture, especially downtown]( this in no small measure due to the wanton demolition of its built history. For more than half a century, Dallas has stripped itself of its bureaucratic building, the result being a city of surface parking lots and developments floating in urban space. ADVERTISEMENT  👋 That's all for this morning! 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 [the newsroom.]( 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](