Compiled by Brent E. Beltrán
This week’s edition of Looking Back at the Week features articles by San Diego Free Press and OB Rag regulars, irregulars, columnists, and at-large contributors on Shamu soon getting a new cell, slimeball Republican operatives and their anti-minimum wage lies, the need to read, VofSD’s experiment, Anglo-American justice, military leftovers, need for black boys to feel free, meaning of Americanized, humanity trail video by SDFP newbie Horacio Jones, SD’s P100 program screwing a family, thumbs down for Buona Forchetta, slow death at Ft. Rosecrans, Ed Hariss’ second half issues, beach news, and OB Rag goes on vacation plus many more articles, poetry and other good stuff on what’s happening in San Diego. Now’s the time to catch up on what went down this past week at SDFP and OB Rag from our motley crew of contributors.
San Diego Free Press Regular Columns:
The Starting Line by Doug Porter:
SeaWorld: A Bigger Cage Doesn’t Change Anything
Don’t Sign It! Chamber of Commerce Led Group Seeks to Block Minimum Wage Increase
Slime – A Common Denominator in San Diego’s Past, Present and Future Elections
Groups Call ALS Bucket Challenge a Baby Killer
Calling Out the Liars Behind the Anti Minimum Wage Campaign in San Diego
Under the Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
Why Read? In Defense of Uselessness
Who Runs San Diego? by Linda Perine
The Grand Experiment at Voice of San Diego
Junco’s Jabs by Junco Canché
“Anglo-American” Justice in Ferguson
El Machete Illustrated by Eric J. Garcia
Can you Wrap Up These Leftovers?
From the Soul by Ernie McCray
Can We Just Create a Civil Society Where Black Boys Can Feel Free to Just Be
Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Broken Tracks
The History of the Neighborhood House by Maria Garcia
A History of Neighborhood House in Logan Heights: Testing the Meaning of “Americanized” Part II
Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán
Looking Back at the Week at SDFP and OB Rag: August 10-16
San Diego Free Press Regular and At-Large Contributors:
War Weary
By Jay Powell
A Trail for Humanity’s Final Walk Begins in Chicano Park
Video by Horacio Jones
How San Diego’s P100 Program Screwed Diego and Anna
By John Lawrence
DIY Resistance: Beat the Grief
By Will Falk
Restaurant Review: Buona Forchetta
By Judi Curry
Abed, Diaz Spar at Escondido Chamber Mayoral Forum
By Escondido Democratic Club
Readers Write: Unlearning the Myth That Is America
By Anna Prouty
Ft. Rosecrans Cemetery: The Slow Death of a Prism of Beauty
By Judi Curry
OB Rag Articles:
News at the Beach You Might Have Missed …
By OB Rag Staff
The Drought – Basic Q and A
By Matt O’Malley
Air Force Helicopters Too Close to Ocean Beach Residents
By OB Rag Staff
Councilman Ed Harris: ‘My Issues for the second half of my term.’
By Ed Harris
New Online Journal Asks “Is OB Slacking?” Because There’s No Protests at CVS
By Frank Gormlie
Watch the Video of the Guy Who Put “Sucks” in the SeaWorld Freeway Sign
By Frank Gormlie
A Message to the Readers of the OB Rag
By OB Rag Staff
Niagara-Bacon Area Quickly Becoming OB’s New Hot Spot
By Matt Wood
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