Victor Puente

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LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - For today’s Good Question, Alvin asks: Tornadoes are classified as EF 1, 2, 3, and ect. What does EF and the number mean? The EF stands for Enhanced Fujita. That’s because the original Fujita Scale was updated in 2007. It was named for Tetsuya “Ted” Fujita, a meteorologist at the University of Chicago. The school says his goal was to create categories that could separate weak tornadoes from strong ones.

1 week ago | wkyt.com | Victor Puente

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - For today’s Good Question, Alvin asks: Tornadoes are classified as EF 1, 2, 3, and ect. What does EF and the number mean? The EF stands for Enhanced Fujita. That’s because the original Fujita Scale was updated in 2007. It was named for Tetsuya “Ted” Fujita, a meteorologist at the University of Chicago. The school says his goal was to create categories that could separate weak tornadoes from strong ones.

1 week ago | wkyt.com | Victor Puente

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - Today’s Good Question is: Why is Juneteenth a national holiday, but not a state holiday? Juneteenth recognizes the day in 1865 when Union soldiers informed the country’s last remaining enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, that they were free. Since then, it has continued to grow, and in 2021, former president Joe Biden signed a bill into law making it the 12th federal holiday. It passed overwhelmingly in the House and unanimously in the Senate.

1 week ago | wkyt.com | Victor Puente

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - For today’s Good Question, Sara asks: Is it a city or state responsibility to inspect code or building standards at rental properties? If so, how often should they be carrying out the inspections? The regulations are really going to depend on where you live. In Kentucky, those are generally enforced at the local level.

1 week ago | wkyt.com | Victor Puente

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - For today’s Good Question, David asks: Who pays the tariff on what is bought from other countries? Who gets the tariff money? A tariff is a tax added to imported items entering a country from another country. Who pays for it depends on how the importing company wants to handle it. The initial cost is typically paid by the company importing the good or product, but economists say it is generally passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices.