Elsewhere: Offshore Drilling, State G.O.P.

John McCain wants to lift the ban on offshore oil drilling.

Patti Solis Doyle's position in the Obama campaign becomes a negative for Hillary Clinton supporters.

Cindy McCain is going to Southeast Asia.

Barack Obama meets with the Congressional Black Caucus this week.

McCain may have screwed up the definition of cap-and-trade.

Paul Krugman thinks that Obama’s Social Security proposal ought to be huge news, and that Obama ought to figure out the details of his own plan.

A New Jersey Congressman pushes Jim Webb for vice president.

A media consultant who helped create the “daisy ad” is dead.

Marc Ambinder disagrees with the conventional wisdom on South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford.

The state health commissioner is still worked up about smoking in movies.

Here is the full text for the Assembly bill called the "Atlantic Yards Governance Act."

The director of the state G.O.P. quit abruptly.

Matthew Walter is her replacement.

Michael Bloomberg introduced "summer streets," which will close Park Avenue to traffic on Saturday mornings.

NYPIRG is pushing the bottle bill.

Tom DiNapoli finds a small way to save lots of money.

John Riley thinks David Paterson's denials about what he said about Bloomberg are a little thin.