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Looking Back at the Week at SDFP and OB Rag: September 7-13

September 14, 2014 by Brent E. Beltrán

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sdfpobragCompiled 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 big lies by Dirty Energy, the costs of football, DeMaio smelling bad, an intensified minimum wage fight, the Illumina lawsuit, an oppressed Chamber, false CC premises, Obama chumping out, glutton buddies Kevin & Jerry, taxi drivers on the move, bad reality, Gloria’s living the wage challenge, Dick & Henry’s warmongering, regulating initiatives, Vets 360, lots of OB stuff and much more. Go read what you’ve missed out on this week. You’ll thank us.

sdfpfbavSan Diego Free Press Regular Columns:

The Starting Line by Doug Porter:
Dirty Energy’s Big Lie Campaign About California’s So-Called Hidden Gas Tax
I’m No Longer Ready for Some Football
There’s Always a Bad Smell Downwind of Carl DeMaio
The Fight to Save the Minimum Wage Hike Intensifies in San Diego
City Threatened with Lawsuit Over Illumina Economic Incentives Deal

Under the Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
The San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce: Oppressed Underdog?

Who Runs San Diego? by Linda Perine
Who Runs San Diego? Six False Premises for Convention Center Expansion

Desde la Logan by Brent E. Beltrán
Obama Reneges on Using Executive Action to Implement Immigration Reform Until After Midterm Election

Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Dresden

Junco’s Jabs by Junco Canché
Palin, Snyder, and Ditka “Honoring” Native Americans
Faulconer & Sanders Dine Like Gluttons

El Machete Illustrated by Eric J. Garcia
No Regrets, Mr. Cheney?

The History of the Neighborhood House by Maria Garcia
The History of Neighborhood House in Logan Heights: Mary Fisher Garcia

Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán
Looking Back at the Week at SDFP and OB Rag: August 31-September 6

 

San Diego Free Press Regular and At-Large Contributors:        

For the Love of Taxi Workers: Hundreds of Immigrant Taxi Workers Mobilizing to Fight for Their Freedom
By Sarah Saez           

What Happens When Reality Isn’t Good Enough
By Bob Dorn                                                                   

Extreme Weather Watch: August 2014 – Southwest US May Face Megadrought
By John Lawrence                                                

Living the Wage is Indeed a Challenge in San Diego
By Todd Gloria                                                            

Beating the War Drums: Beware the Advice of Mission Creeps Cheney and Kissinger
By Anna Daniels                                       

American Football Fantasy
By Jay Powell                         

San Diego Needs to Regulate the Initiative Industry
By Lori Saldaña           

Poisoned Chalice Electric Rate “Fixing” Threatens Community Energy in San Diego
By Jay Powell

How Smart Was That Lambchop? And Do His Friends Miss Him?
By Sarah “Steve” Mosko       

Escondido Council Candidate Forum Reveals Stances on Golf Course, Charter City Propositions
By Rick Moore                            

Vets 360
Video by Horacio Jones

 

ob ragOB Rag Articles:

What’s Shaking in Ocean Beach?
By Frank Gormlie                  

9/11: San Diegans to Demonstrate Against Supreme Court Justice Scalia
By OB Rag Staff

Reader Rave: “Why I Jumped Off Sunset Cliffs Yesterday.”
By Anonymous Reader                                                          

Praise to the OB Rag From the Planning Board
By Frank Gormlie                                                       

Councilman Ed Harris: “Why I voted to increase the minimum wage in San Diego.”
By Ed Harris                           

OB Community Plan Tentatively Scheduled for Coastal Commission Hearing in Newport Beach, Oct. 8 – 10
By Frank Gormlie                                      

California Fish Stories – How Some Seafood Has ‘Come back’ and How San Diego’s Bluefin Tuna ‘Is On the Way Out’
By Frank Gormlie

 

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Brent E. Beltrán is a third generation pocho and second generation San Diegan that lives next door to Chicano Park in Barrio Logan. He's married to his warrior healer wife Olympia and is the proud father of a youngling name Sandino. Brent is a member of the SDFP Editorial Board, occasionally writes the column Desde la Logan and posts Looking Back at the Week every Sunday morning. He can be contacted at desdelalogan@gmail.com and through his Twitter account @DesdeLaLogan.
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