The Ask Us team tries to answer as many questions as possible, especially questions that may have a wide interest. We get quite a few questions, and we do our best to answer them all.
Question: We live on Newtown Pike south of Ironworks and little or nothing has been done to improve this road. It was torn up last summer for repairs and is still a mess. When will the road work be completed?
Answer: David Thacker, spokesman for the Kentucky Department of Transportation District 7, has the [...]
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Whatever happened to the Clays Mill Road widening? I thought it was to start in 2006.
Clays Mill Road has produced much public discussion over very many years involving the city, the state and the neighborhood. Finally, the money is in place, the design is complete and construction will begin soon. Max Conyers, transportation planning manager [...]
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I have a question that has been on my mind for months now. Whenever I travel around Kentucky, I keep noticing these large square shaped signs that seem to have different “quilt type” designs on them. They seem to all have different colored designs on them and have no wording. I have seen the signs [...]
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I began my research career as a University of Virginia physics librarian. Watergate got me interested in news, and I have been at the Herald-Leader for 28 years. I have a master’s degree from Northern Illinois University and an undergraduate degree from Oklahoma State University. It's fun to find that one piece of information that makes a story sizzle. If you have a question, I know where to look. E-mail Linda
My mother was a public school librarian. I earned a bachelor’s degree in music and a master’s degree in library and information science from the University of Kentucky. The Herald-Leader hired me as a news assistant 25 years ago; soon after, I moved to the news research department, where I’ve been ever since. We used to clip newspapers. Now, almost all of our research is online. We've come a long way. E-mail Lu-Ann
