Stadiums

I was elected freshman class president at college and the first vote I remember taking on the student council was to oppose spending student funds on moleskin-- a cotton fabric some sports team wanted because it's resistant to wind and abrasion. Let them get their own moleskins; I had Fugs, Doors, Country Joe & the Fish, Who and Otis Redding concerts in mind, not to mention lectures by Timothy Leary and Julian Bond.

Just south of Washington, in Prince William County, Virginia, the board of supervisors is about to decide whether to issue $35 million in bonds to build a new baseball stadium for the Potomac Nationals. The board just rejected a proposal to let the taxpayers vote on the issue.

It's hard to say exactly when, but sometime in the early part of the 21st century downtown Los Angeles's skyline changed. And not in an inspiring way.What lent it somewhat of a depressing feel was the nature of the name tenants on its tall buildings.