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Airlines post better on-time rate but get more complaints

WASHINGTON
More flights are arriving on time but consumer complaints about the airlines have risen sharply.
The U.S. Department of Transportation said Thursday that the nation’s leading carriers posted an on-time rate of 80.3 percent in August. That was better than the 78.1 percent mark in July and 77.7 percent the previous August.

Detroit News

Fed officials in September worried about China slowdown

Minutes showed the central bank believed the time for the first Fed rate increase in nine years “might be near”

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Fed official still looking at 2015 rate hike

A member of the Federal Reserve’s policy committee says he believes the economy is on a satisfactory track

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Netflix raising price for most popular video plan by $1

The new price of $10 per month for standard plan won’t affect most of the service’s existing 42 million U.S. subscribers

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Mich. wine industry may suffer after years of bad crops

The region’s crop was hit by a long, cold winter that was followed by a spring frost and capped by August hail damage

Detroit News

TedX conferences help Detroit write new narrative

Conferences were meant to help disrupt that narrative of city as “burning, bleeding and bankrupt”

Fast Company

Reese Witherspoon’s Draper James To Open Brick And Mortar Locations

With $10 million in funding led by Kirsten Green’s Forerunner Ventures, the clothing and Southern lifestyle brand shares its next moves.

Flip through the pages of any fashion magazine or sneak a peek at billboards dotting America, and the look of the clothing is decidedly urban: black, form-fitting, totally inappropriate for a backyard barbecue or a Sunday stroll with family.

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Fast Company

What Being An Air Marshal Taught This CEO About Business

Here, from someone who spent years policing the skies, are lessons in vigilance and scenario planning from 30,000 feet.

From 1991 to 1997, Guy Praisler rarely flew without a gun.

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Fast Company

The Dinner Parties That Transformed One Curious Foodie Into A Mobile App Master

Will Turnage is SVP of technology at the R/GA agency. And cocreator of the algorithm-powered cooking app, My Robotic Kitchen.

Will Turnage loves food. But he may love wielding data and technology to master cooking even more.

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Fast Company

The People’s Uber: Why The Sharing Economy Must Share Ownership

Workers are often taken advantage of by the on-demand economy. What if they ran it instead?

Mayor Bill de Blasio recently discovered, during his short-lived campaign against Uber, that saying no to a popular, convenient new technology doesn’t tend to win many friends—or win much at all. In just a few years, New York City’s regulated yellow-taxi fleet has been outnumbered by a distant company with uncertain intentions. There are benefits to this, as well as mounting costs. But critics like Mr. De Blasio won’t get very far until they have something to say yes to.

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