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Formula One: 2023 TIME100 Most Influential Companies

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Formula One’s engine continues to rev. The global auto-racing circuit generated $2.57 billion in revenue in 2022, a 27% increase over 2019, and attendance reached 5.7 million last year, a 36% rise from pre­pandemic levels. That growth was partly powered by Netflix’s Drive to Survive showcasing the personalities of drivers like Lewis Hamilton. It’s helped draw more eyeballs, especially in the U.S., where ESPN’s telecasts of F1 races averaged 1.21 million viewers last year, double 2020 levels. Read More...

Georgia Trooper Takes Newly Orphaned Kids Out on Halloween

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November 5, 2015 12:30 AM EST Four siblings in Newborn, Ga. were orphaned on Halloween night, but a concerned police officer didn’t have the heart to break the news to them that evening, according to PEOPLE.com. Donald and Crystal Howard died in a car crash that day and Georgia State Trooper Nathan Bradley was tasked with sharing the tragic news with the children. “I thought, ‘Man, their Halloween is just going to be destroyed tonight,'” Bradley told PEOPLE. Read More...

Hawaiians Have a History of Reasons to Fear Land Speculation

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In the aftermath of the fires on Maui and the loss of the town of Lahaina, an intense fear and resentment on the part of the people of Lahaina has been directed at speculators who would buy the land left desolate in the conflagration to build homes and hotels and commercial buildings. Josh Green, the governor of Hawai’i, is exploring “options to do a moratorium on sales of properties that have been damaged or destroyed. Read More...

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