Governor Steve Beshear has lifted the block on state computers' access to political web sites. That ban was imposed by former Governor Ernie Fletcher who said state employees had no reason to look at political blogs, internet shopping sites and other web pages while they were on taxpayer time.
But Beshear spokesman Dick Brown says allowing access to the political sites is "the right thing to do." Brown says the governor trusts state employees to know what's an appropriate use of their state computer and keeping information from them was not the right thing to do.

A federal lawsuit challenging the Fletcher administration's ban on political blogs is still pending. Former democratic blogger Mark Nickolas filed that lawsuit claiming blockage of his old web site was a first amendment issue.