Question: For many years the old Lexington Leader had a front page feature called “Four Bits.” Who wrote it and what happened to the column? 
Answer: Your answer comes from retired associate editor of the Lexington Leader William Hanna.  The page one column that appeared on the lower left side of the page was written by [...]

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Question: In the 1930s Lexington had “street cars” running on tracks with overhead connection to power lines.  When did they start and end? Why were they disconnected?
Answer: This question can be answered by reading the book by J. Winston Coleman Jr. The Squire’s Sketches of Lexington. The first street cars in Lexington were actually introduced on [...]

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Question: I need correct Email address for columnist John Rosemond to send a letter. The address listed at the end of his column comes back saying “not a member” whatever that means. I will admit I am not very computer savvy.
  Answer: You can contact him through his web page at:
http://www.rosemond.com/
From this web page you [...]

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Question: I was driving on the highway towards Mount Sterling when I saw three dead deer heads in a row – they were actually female deer or does – left on the side of the road. Is this some weird hunting ritual and is it legal?
Answer: The director of the Kentucky division of wildlife says that a person [...]

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Question: The Lexington Urban County Government occupies what was once the Lafayette Hotel. When was it converted to a government building?
Answer: The city has had a myriad of problems with its leaky government center building. In April 2007, the Herald-Leader reported that Mayor Jim Newberry wants to spend $1.3 million repairing the exterior of the [...]

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Question: When did Congress go under the radar and enact a law that gives them automatic pay raises each year?
Answer: Your answer comes from a report issued on Sept. 21 of this year by the Congressional Research Service.  The web page is
http://www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/97-1011.pdf
Here’s a summary of that report:
Congress is required by Article I, Section 6, of [...]

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Please explain the rational in destroying the beautiful drive on Newtown Pike from Stanton Dr to Iron Works Pike?? Perhaps then the many people who make that drive each day could explain it to the people who keep asking about how did that happen with a little less anger in our [...]

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Question: The traffic lights at the intersection of Tates Creek and Wilson Downing roads were replaced recently, along with the poles supporting them.  Why were the lights replaced when they appeared to be perfectly fine? Were the old lights and poles recycled?
Answer: This answer came from the city traffic engineering department: “Regards to the rebuilding [...]

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Question: As you head down Alumni road before you get to Chinoe Road there’s three strange looking wooden poles on the right side of the road in either the shape of a football goal or a mathematical Pi symbol.  There’s two poles standing about twenty feet apart vertically with a horizontal pole across the top. What is this? [...]

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Tell us about Officer Don. Does he really fly and make reports from the sky or is he sitting somewhere and viewing traffic cameras? I used to see the traffic aircraft but I don’t any more. What is the story?
 
Officer Don is still flying.
From the Herald-Leader archives
LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER
DATE: Wednesday, November 12, 2003
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