Elsewhere: Palin's Investigation, Reporter Rebellion, Another Ethics Committee MeetingFive Republican lawmakers in Alaska are asking a judge to stop the investigation into Sarah Palin's firing of a top police official. From the AP: "Asked about her refusal to turn over e-mails to an Alaska investigator, Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin Sarah Louise Heath Palin (born February 11 1964 in Sandpoint, Idaho) is the current Governor of Alaska. She is the youngest governor in Alaskan history (forty-two years old upon taking office), as well as the first woman to hold the office in Alaska. looked up, smiled — and then stepped wordlessly into her waiting car. " "She's really done a lot of work on oil and gas, but when it comes to violence against women and children. . . we haven't been on her radar as a priority," the executive director of the Alaska Network on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault told ABC news
ABC News is a division of American television and radio network ABC, owned by The Walt Disney Company. Its current president is David Westin. . Although it's been refuted by the McCain campaign, Palin told a crowd in Ohio that during the Republican convention her teleprompter was broken. The New Republic talks to Palin's former opponents. John McCain For McCain's grandfather and father, see John S. McCain, Sr. and John S. McCain, Jr., respectively John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936 in Panama Canal Zone) is an American politician, war veteran, and currently the Republican Senior U.S. Senator from Arizona. now says the economy is troubled. Reporters on the McCain campaign plane held a brief rebellion and demanded to see the candidate, but they didn't win. After Carly Fiorina Cara Carleton "Carly" Fiorina (born Cara Carleton Sneed; September 61954 in Austin, Texas) is an American business executive, best known as former CEO (1999–2005) and Chairman of the Board (2000–2005) of Hewlett-Packard (HP). said that Palin couldn't run a big corporation, she tried to soften the blow by saying McCain, Obama and Biden couldn't either. The Indoor Tanning Association defends Palin. Charlie Rangel will not step down from his chairmanship. Chuck Schumer Charles Ellis "Chuck" Schumer (born November 23, 1950) is the senior U.S. Senator from the state of New York, serving since 1999. A Democrat, in 2005, he became chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. asked that an upstate ski resort be allowed to stay open for the full season. The Assembly ethics committee ethics committee A multidisciplinary hospital body composed of a broad spectrum of personnel–eg, physicians, nurses, social workers, priests, and others, which addresses the moral and ethical issues within the hospital. See DNR, Institutional review board. is meeting again, but no word on which of three members they might be discussing. The Brooklyn Optimist says at last night's Brooklyn county Democratic meeting, officials took "every opportunity to eschew debate and neutralize dissent." The Republican candidate challenging Representative John Hall is asking for five debates. Sheepshead sheepshead Species (Archosargus probatocephalus) of popular edible sport fish in the porgy family, common along southern North American Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts. Bites posts a petition called "DON'T KILL CONEY ISLAND." Upstate, Alice Kryzan is wooing labor leaders, who did not support her during the primary. There's another write-in candidate for Congress on Staten Island. Brooklyn residents near the Atlantic Yards footprint are concerned about 86 trees that have gone missing. 
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