The Trail

Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden, shown last week in Denver, told an audience at a Florida retirement community that he and Barack Obama are strong allies of Israel. (By Susan Biddle -- The Washington Post)
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According to the Passage House Web site, its purpose is to provide "young mothers a place to live with their babies for up to eighteen months while they gain the necessary skills and resources to change their lives" and help them "become productive, successful, independent adults who create and provide a stable environment for themselves and their families."

John McCain opposed funding to prevent teen pregnancies, a position that Palin also took as governor. "The explicit sex-ed programs will not find my support," she wrote in a 2006 questionnaire distributed among gubernatorial candidates.

It also emerged yesterday that Palin and her husband, Todd, each held a 20 percent stake in an Anchorage carwash that ran into trouble with Alaska's Division of Corporations, Business and Professional Licensing after she became governor in 2006, according to state records.

A Feb. 11, 2007, letter to the governor's business partner advises that the carwash had "not filed its biennial report and/or paid its biennial fees," which were more than a year overdue. The warning was issued on state letterhead, which carried Palin's name at the top, next to the state seal.

On April 3, 2007, the state went further and issued a "certificate of involuntary dissolution" because of the carwash's failure to file its report and pay state licensing fees.

-- Paul Kane, Matthew Mosk and the Associated Press