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☆ Giant Batteries Helped the U.S. Power Grid Eke Through Summer
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-26 | by ( Jennifer Hiller | Photographs Jake Dockins For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Jet Service JSX Lands at Center of Pilot Fight
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-09 | by ( Alison Sider | Photographs Jake Dockins For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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Alison SiderAlison Sider writes about airlines and air travel from The Wall Street Journal’s Chicago bureau. She has chronicled the major U.S. airlines since 2018, most recently focusing on how they've navigated major crises such as the grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX and the global coronavirus pandemic. She joined the Wall Street Journal's Houston bureau in 2012 to write about the U.S. energy industry, and later covered oil markets in New York. Previously, she worked at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in Little Rock, Ark., covering business and reporting from the state Capitol. Alison has an MBA from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin and a BA in economics from the University of Chicago.

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☆ This Dallas Hotel Has One Weird Rule: American Airlines Employees Only
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Dawn Gilbertson | Photographs Jake Dockins For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

FORT WORTH, Texas—I was thrilled with the free breakfast and spacious room at my $161-a-night SpringHill Suites near Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport last week. Until I saw the new airport hotel across the highway. The 600-room Skyview 6, which opened in late January, has a tavern with an airy patio, supersize gym, lap pool, free cruiser bikes, sushi to go and bathroom mirrors with Bluetooth connections.

☆ This New Hotel Is Lovely, but You Can’t Stay There
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Dawn Gilbertson | Photographs Jake Dockins For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

For years when AT&T Inc. threw a retirement party, employees had to enter the names of attendees in the telecom company’s expense-reporting system. It was the kind of small annoyance that is an accepted part of office life for millions of white-collar workers. But a technology team at AT&T figured the requirement, plus a similar one for service-anniversary parties, was costing its workers 28,500 hours a year that they could be spending on more important tasks. So the company scrapped it, and in the past two years has made more than 160 similar moves it estimates are saving employees nearly 3 million hours a year.

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