U.s. Shutdown Is Playing With Fire

Southwest Airlines says it is ending its cabin service earlier on its flights starting next month. Beginning on Dec. 4, a company spokesperson said, flight attendants will begin preparing the cabin for landing at an altitude of 18,000 feet (5,486 meters) instead of 10,000 feet (3,048 meters). The change in procedure is designed to “reduce the risk of in-flight turbulence injuries” for crew members and passengers, the company said. For passengers, that means they will need to do the usual pre-landing procedures — such as ensuring their seatbelts are fastened and returning their seats to an upright position — earlier than before. While turbulence-related fatalities are quite rare, injuries have piled up over the years.

Like many small business owners, Alesia Washington wears many hats. She handcrafts therapeutic knotted balls and has penned a guided journal about self-love. She offers one-on-one coaching to help people identify what is holding them back, and attracts crowds to a knitting class called Y Knit Happens. “(It’s) primarily a business surrounded around wellness … anything that may help you get from where you currently are to a place where you would like to be,” Washington, 62, of Hyde Park, said Saturday morning. Washington was one of more than two dozen vendors hawking their wares at an all-day Small Business Saturday event in Bronzeville.

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