Joe Scott: The Body Politic

NFL future site: city or suburb?

07 February 2011 |permalink | email article

I found a 25-inch Los Angeles Times’ Sunday opinion column, “Officials, not cheerleaders,” insisting that city and state lawmakers carefully evaluate AEG’s proposed downtown pro football stadium, a compelling counterpoint to flamboyant Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa who endorsed it long before ever receiving a formal proposal.

Noteworthy in the developing local buzz was that Super Bowl XLV was played Sunday in the ultra modern $1.15 billion Cowboys Stadium, no longer in Irving, a Dallas suburb, but nearby Arlington, Texas—just 18 miles away and less than a 30 minute drive. Ed Roski Jr., the billionaire developer, has long had in mind a rival stadium proposal for suburban Canyon Country, just 22 miles east of downtown L.A., between two freeways with less traffic congestion and far more tailgate space. Let the intense competition begin!

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Mission Statement

Aristotle's Politics (Book 1, Chapter 1) is clear that "man is a political animal in a greater measure than any bee or any gregarious animal. For nature does nothing without purpose, and man alone of the animals possesses speech."

The blogosphere watches as a divided America reexamines its soul. After 35 years as a journalist I have broken a long silence to comment again on critical moral and political issues that impact the U.S. body politic. Reflections on JoeScott3.com, an independent, non-profit blog, are posted frequently, not daily. I hope global readers, accepting Aristotle's definition of a political animal, will find this quick scan both provocative and mindful.

About Joe Scott

A 1952 graduate of the University of Notre Dame, Joe Scott spent many years as a columnist for the Herald-Examiner (1978-1989), and later the Los Angeles Times and other California dailies.He was the critically-acclaimed editor and publisher of the Political Animal and California Eye, newsletters (1973-1992). He worked as a political consultant and ran several successful political campaigns in California. Joe Scott is a third-generation Angeleno. He is working on a novel about public corruption in Los Angeles during the late 1930's. You can contact Joe Scott here. All content of the site, Joe Scott, 2006

Joe Scott 3: The Body Politic