Letters

Happy new reader!

I just wanted to write and say how pleased I am with your newspaper. I had only it browsed it occasionally at the [Chevy Chase] laundromat, but finally sat down and fully read your June 23 edition. Without a doubt, I learned more interesting and relevant information from that edition alone than I have from YEARS of reading the Herald-Leader.

I particularly enjoyed the technical and geographic information on the Ky. River’s locks and dams, and your scathingly accurate description of the new COLT “trolleys” as a yuppie toy that ignores the people who need buses most. Also, your 4-part series on the 40th anniversary of the Kent State massacre and ensuing protests at UK deserves a Pulitzer Prize, if only for its attention to a topic that is annually censored by other media and likely unknown to today’s UK students.

The complete void of local news journalism in Lexington has always been disturbing to me. I’m convinced that the Herald-Leader is written in Atlanta or Chicago; by people who have never actually lived here. The very few pages of their every H-L that AREN’T comprised of UK “Athletics” worship are hastily filled with stale 2-party political articles or another recycled story on their rotating wheel of scandals such as KACo, CenterPoint, Airport, Water Company, etc.

So, please keep up the excellent work. I look forward to seeing daily editions of NoC in a few years!

Dwight Nagel

Thanks for the props, Dwight.

ROCK Coverage

It was a good night in derby (“ROCK gets best of VCV,” June 23). Nice to see you capture the feeling in this article. Best fan reaction in Lexington I’ve seen thus far.

Michael Fleming