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 fear mongering after the deaths of two NYC cops, San Diego’s dozen bad boys and girls, a baker’s dozen of SD do-gooders, a dozen orgs doing good deeds, the love of tamales, a double dose of Junco toons, a Machete toon on GOP crying foul in Cuba, Ish’s poetics, the lingering stench of Ayn Rand’s ghost, a video essay on an art exhibit for the missing 43, remembering Pete Chacon, wanting a better NFL and a couple juicy bits from the OB Rag.

San Diego Free Press Regular Columns:

The Starting Line by Doug Porter
Stories from the Weekend: NYC Cop Killing Brings Out the Fear Mongers
Dear Santa: Here’s a Dozen Bad Boys and Girls from the Past Year in San Diego
A Bakers Dozen: People Who Made San Diego a Better Place in 2014
A Dozen Organizations Doing Good Deeds in San Diego

Under the Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
Stocking Stuffers, Lumps of Coal, and ‘Buy Nothing’ Christmas Gifts

City Heights: Up Close & Personal by Anna Daniels
For the Love of Tamales

Junco’s Jabs by Junco Canché
Do You Feel Safer?
¡Feliz Navidad desde el Junco Canché!

El Machete Illustrated by Eric J. Garcia
You’re Going to Ruin All This Progress!

Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Geo-Poetic Spaces: Leading Economic Indicator (Part II)

Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán
Looking Back at the Week: Dec 14-20

San Diego Free Press Regular and At-Large Contributors:        

Use “San Salvador” Replica to Tell the True Story of What Happened to Native Americans in San Diego and California
By Frank Gormlie

Country Club America and the Ghost of Ayn Rand
By John Lawrence                                                   

Video-Essay: Barrio Logan Art Show for the 43 Missing Mexican Students
By Horacio Jones                                                                

Photo Gallery: Tracking a Wanderer
By Roy Little

Remembering Peter “Pete” Chacon, June 10, 1925 to Dec. 14, 2014
By Paul Chacon                                                    

Readers Write: All I Want For 2015 Is a Better NFL
By Raul Carranza                                      

OB Rag Contributors:

The New Civil Rights Movement That Can Save America
By Frank Gormlie

End of the Year Notes from Editordude’s Desk
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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