Yesterday, the Kentucky Court of Appeals struck-down the lower-court ruling which allowed Beshear to "seize" internet domains for gambling websites. Source: http://tinyurl.com/7arvve

In China, the government controls what their people are permitted to see on the internet. Even Google has created a specialized version of their search engine to comply with China's web-filtering.

Why does China filter the internet? They filter political and religious viewpoints contrary to the Communist Party's viewpoints. You can read more about Chinese web-filtering here: http://tinyurl.com/9roduh

On Thursday night, I had the opportunity to go to the Governor's town hall forum in Grant County on the proposed cigarette tax increase.

The opening speaker talked about how we all have to "do our share" to get Kentucky through this crisis.

Governor Beshear's PowerPoint-based presentation showed basic percentage cuts in the budgets of most areas of state government. The Kentucky SEEK funding (the bulk of K-12 funding), Medicare and Medicaid were the primary areas where cuts were not made.

Hello everyone, and welcome.

I am so very pleased that our new website is finally online. We've had a few minor technical difficulties, but I believe those are all resolved. Needless to say, a lot of hours went in to making this happen. A special thanks to Harlen Compton and Mark Gailey for the work involved in getting this new site online.