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Another Brown-Whitman debate, the benefactor of Schwarzenegger's Asian trip, Robin Kramer to the harbor commission and more inside.
- Jerry Brown agreed to a third debate with Republican rival Meg Whitman, to take place on Oct. 2 at Cal State Fresno. LAT
- Four states are preparing to sue California if the state’s landmark law limiting greenhouse gas emissions survives a challenge at the ballot box this November. California Watch
- Much of Gov. Schwarzenegger's trade mission to Asia is being paid for by Alibaba Group, an Internet company commonly referred to as the EBay of China. LAT
- Child death reports were falsified by the county, two senior managers say. LAT
- Elected officials showed up in Chatsworth to pressure Boeing to clean up the soil at the former Santa Susana rocket testing lab. DN
- Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa appointed his former chief of staff, Robin Kramer, to the Board of Harbor Commissioners. LAT
- The Valley Industry & Commerce Association will launch its San Fernando Valley Leadership Political Action Committee "to help elect pro-business candidates to local and state offices."
- City officials in Vernon traveled lavishly at public expense. LAT
- Former LAT writer Terry McDermott has a profile of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in the Sept. 13 issue of the New Yorker, now on newsstands.
- Michael Kinsley will stop his Atlantic column and do a weekly opinion column for Politico, as will MSNBC's Joe Scarborough. NYT, Politico
- The Wall Street Journal will create a weekly book review section to be edited by Robert Messenger. NY Observer
- Pacific Radio is in talks to air Al Jazeera on KPFK and its other stations. WashPost
- USC Libraries announced the launch of its new L.A. as Subject website.
- Los Angeles photographer Ann Summa will sign books at an opening reception for "The Beautiful & the Damned: Punk Photographs by Ann Summa" on Saturday at Track 16 Gallery in Bergamot Station, with a performance by Exene Cervenka at 8:15 p.m.
- Vendela Vida, author most recently of "The Lovers," guests on "Bookworm" at 2:30 p.m. on KCRW.