Around 11:30 p.m. on Friday, May 1, senior managers at Spirit Airlines gathered staff at the carrier’s Orlando operations center and delivered the news: flying would stop at 3 a.m. A dispatcher who had worked at the company for 23 years sent a final message to a pilot still in…
Every morning and afternoon, a small herd of Texas longhorns moves down East Exchange Avenue in Fort Worth, past brick warehouses and visitors holding up smartphones. The cattle drive lasts about 15 minutes. The economic story behind it took more than a century to build. Today, the Fort Worth Stockyards attract roughly 11 million visitors…