Anne Gust Brown

President Barack Obama will carry California. That's not in question. What is in question is California's future.

Brown had been remarkably quiet since signing the state budget at the end of June, even by the terms of his rather quiet new/renewed governorship. He returned on July 22nd with a burst of activity.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Jerry Brown was feeling the pressure. His billionaire Republican opponent in California's gubernatorial race had tapped he...

It's the fate of Jerry Brown, the 34th and 39th governor of California, to succeed Republican movie stars as governor. Of course, Arnold Schwarzenegger is a much bigger movie star than Ronald Reagan ever dreamed of being.

In the long and winding road that is Jerry Brown's life, there has been no shortage of odysseys. But with 2010 drawing to a close, and Brown confronting one of the greatest crises of governance seen in a modern state, it's worth looking at this particular one.

As Jerry Brown prepares to become California's oldest governor more than three decades after he became its youngest in the modern era, many search for clues to his thinking. The past is prologue.

The dust is still settling on Brown's resounding landslide victory by a margin of more than 1.2 million votes over billionaire Meg Whitman. The race was by far the costliest non-presidential campaign in American history.