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On october the fourth, 1930, a 777 foot long airship, the largest thing that had ever flown, larger than the titanic by volume was about to take off on a trip from london to india. As part of a scheme hatched by the British Empire to connect the farflung pieces of the empire, it was a moonshot. A scheme you call it, one of your chapters is titled is dreams and imperial vision . S. C. Gwynne a nice combination of all of them, airships as it turns out were competing with airplanes in the early century, starting in the first decade. Nobody really knew what was going to be the future of aviation b...

Public comments specific to an item on the agenda may be heard when that item is considered. Commenters will have up to three minutes to comment. For each action or discussion item. Members of the public attending the meeting in person will first have the opportunity to broaden opportunity to provide input in person. Public comment. Afterwards the commission will take remote Public Comment from those who received accommodations due to disabilities. Requested in advance of this meeting, and then the commissioner will hear up to 10 minutes total of remote Public Comment for each item. For the 10...

some were violent and some turned deadly. >> william was killed in the confrontation between national guardsmen and students protesting the war in vietnam at kent state university. joe lewis was shot twice that day as was allen both survived and feel it necessary to remember the four who died understanding it could easily have been them it was a tense time troops coming home called baby killers. might be ripped out of a classroom and september to a jungle. they protested civil rights, women's rights, antiwar. these movements changed the course of history. today college kids want to b...

mid-terms. cross-country winter storm having a major impact bringing blissard conditions to the upper midwest and significant icing through the great lakes as it heads to the northeast. more than half a million customers losing power so far. transportation secretary pete buttigieg finally visiting east palestine, ohio nearly three weeks after the train wreck there. the ntsb will release its initial findings today and we'll have more on those stories throughout the hour. but first republicans getting a close-up look at president biden's border crisis. the house judiciary committee is ...

and the british fashion designer vivienne westwood — a key figure in the rebellious punk movement of the 1970s — has died in london. she was 81 years old hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are aubrey allegretti, who's political correspondent at the guardian — and asa bennett, who's a former number 10 speechwriter. the financial times leads with the breaking news of football legend pele�*s death as they bid him farewell on their front page. "the real goat" reads the front page of the star as they highlight the legac...