Morning Buzz: Wednesday 9.17.08

Tribune has no response yet to Times staffers' class-action lawsuit. LAT (The suit also made the Daily Journal front page)
Mayor Villaraigosa said he is satisfied by the May Day discipline recommended for LAPD officers. LAT, DN
Sarah Palin is helping McCain among California Republicans, but not independents, says Field Poll. Obama has 16-point lead. Bee, Chronicle
Email about last night: "I was at last night's Greystone Mansion Obama event although not as a guest. I got a $.99 McDonald's double cheeseburger beforehand and saved myself the 28,498.93 dollars."
The State Senate killed a bill that would have let the city sell AEG space on the Convention Center for large signs directed at the Santa Monica and Harbor freeways. LAT
Port of L.A. executive director Geraldine Knatz told the Los Angeles Current Affairs Forum that the clean trucks program will kick in on Oct. 1. Breeze
Carson mayor Jim Dear survived a recall election. Breeze
Now the ransacking of public copper includes headstones taken from an Orange County cemetery. AP