The Morning Read: Tuesday, September 2, 2008

The G.O.P. convention has resumed!

Both Joe Lieberman and Fred Thompson will speak.

Adam Nagourney says that Sarah Palin appears to have survived, politically, the news that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant.

Howard Kurtz considers how the story came out, via the liberal blog Daily Kos.

Maryland’s former Lt. Governor said of the pregnancy story, “I know the Democrats are salivating, wanting to make a big deal out of this.”

The A.P. talks with the lawyer who was in charge of vetting Palin for the McCain campaign.

"Republicans close to the campaign said it was increasingly apparent that Ms. Palin had been selected as Mr. McCain’s running mate with more haste than McCain advisers initially described," writes The New York Times.

John McCain's love affair with the media is super dead, reports Bloomberg News.

The Washington Post looks at Joe Biden's support for Amtrak.

McCain’s New York chairman, Ed Cox said, “If we don't select the right person as the next president, we're going to have more tragedies like the one we suffered in New York on 9/11.”

McCain adviser Carly Fiorina told Cindy Adams, “Hillary's people are working with me.”

Sorry Kevin Sheekey: Michael Wolff takes credit for starting the rumor that Michael Bloomberg might buy The New York Times.

Get ready for a well-funded Bloomberg campaign to keep city schools under mayoral control.

Bloomberg drew criticism for not making his position on term limits clear.

When asked about term limits one too many times, Bloomberg “change[d] the subject to the presidential race.”

State officials can now charge for labor costs associated with responding to FOIL requests.

New York Republicans want more attention from McCain.

Analysts consider New York “irrelevant” in the presidential election.

A Canadian newspaper thinkgs “Bloomberg isn’t crazy,” and defends his wind-power plan.

Police are guarding the home of a State Senator whose unlisted number was included in robo-calls made by Assemblyman Greg Ball’s campaign.

The New York Sun is still curious about Barack Obama’s years at Columbia.

J.C. Polanco, who is in Minneapolis this week, finds time to correct Bob Kappstatter.

Irene Liu checks in with the elected officials back home.

Maria Baez and Tom White skip a lot of City Council meetings.

Malcolm Smith and Floyd Flake hung out with L.L. Cool J.

Gotham Gazette is out with their voter guide.

And Betsy Gotbaum is blogging.