"The Moonbeam Has Landed"

"He also wants to use his office to 'promote urban growth in a sustainable way,' what he calls 'elegant density.' As mayor of Oakland, Brown built or won approval for new housing for 10,000 residents in an area that had been a relative dead zone in long-troubled Oakland’s downtown. He won widespread praise from the real estate and investment businesses—and criticism from the left, for promoting gentrification."

The LA Weekly profiles California's new attorney general, Jerry Brown.

And Tim Reiterman in the Los Angeles Times checks in with Brown in August.