Compiled by Brent E. Beltrán
This week’s edition of Looking Back at the Week features articles, toons and poetry by San Diego Free Press and OB Rag regulars, irregulars, columnists, at-large contributors, sourced writers and poets on National Poetry Month, Chamber’s widow kicking, manufactured stadium consent, CityBeat slacking, jamming up Peters on TPP, Cali taxes & inequality, CivicSD, bits from the barrio, Gov. Brown chummy with water hogs, stupid people things, watching Mission Valley, Will Falk’’s Hawaiian mountain solidarity, Armenian genocide a century later, and enough OB news to stuff in a traveler’s backpack.
San Diego Free Press National Poetry Month:
My California Drought
By Will Falk
How to Make a Poem
By Karen Kenyon
Poet Jesús “Papoleto” Meléndez Reads His Work
By Brent E. Beltrán
Geo-Poetic Spaces: Breakdown
By Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
San Diego Free Press Regular Columns:
The Starting Line by Doug Porter
California Chamber of Commerce Wants to Kick Widows to the Curb
Manufacturing Consent for a New Stadium in San Diego
Reader-izing San Diego’s CityBeat Weekly
California Vaccination Law Passes Education Committee
Activists to Rep. Scott Peters: Do the Right Thing on Fast Track, Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
Under the Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
Taxes and Inequality in California: Who Pays a Bigger Share?
City Heights: Up Close & Personal by Anna Daniels
Civic San Diego Willing to Bury City Rep on Meaningless Advisory Board!
From the Soul by Ernie McCray
“100 Things” on My Mind
Desde la Logan by Brent E. Beltrán
Barrio Bits: Placas, Chicano Park Day and Barrio Art Crawl
Junco’s Jabs by Junco Canché (Editorial Cartoon)
Governor Brown and His Water Hogging Buddies
Los Angeles is Wide Open
El Machete Illustrated by Eric J. Garcia (Editorial Cartoon)
Private Prisons Feed Off Immigrant Women and Children
Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes (Video Poems)
Geo-Poetic Spaces: Breakdown
The History of the Neighborhood House by Maria Garcia (History)
The History of Neighborhood House in Logan Heights: Dancing and Dance Teachers
Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán
Looking Back at the Week: April 12-18
San Diego Free Press Regular, At-Large and Locally Sourced Contributors:
When Did Lawyer Cory Briggs Stop Beating His Fake Wife?
By Regnad Kcin
Readers Write: The Fuzzy Picture around the Chargers Stadium and Mission Valley
By Joe Flynn
The Stupid Things People Do
By Bob Dorn
Green Capitalism: A Contradiction in Terms?
By John Lawrence
Mission Valley Watch
By Frank Gormlie
Public Banking Advocate Ellen Brown Speaks at San Diego State
By John Lawrence
Protecting Mauna Kea: Why the Mountain?
By Will Falk
The 100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide and the Art of Hope
By Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Ramblings of An Insomniac
By Judi Curry
San Diego Free Press Sourced Contributors:
How the New Flexible Economy is Making Workers’ Lives Hell
By Robert Reich / RobertReich.com
Why We Need $50,000 Traffic Tickets
By Sam Pizzigati / OtherWords
OB Rag Contributors:
Head-On Wrong-Way Crash at Ocean Beach Entrance Leaves 2 Dead and 2 Injured
By OB Rag Staff
U-T San Diego’s “Ways to Conquer Drought” Protects the Big Guys
By Frank Gormlie
Mission Valley Watch
By Frank Gormlie
Earth Day in OB at the Town Council Meeting – April 22
By OB Rag Staff
Flipping Apartments and Making Millions Off Ocean Beach
By Frank Gormlie
Window-Washer at OB Pier Cafe Loves Her New Job
By Judi Curry
Sunset Cliffs and Voltaire – Plaza Construction Takes Off
By Frank Gormlie
Bakery and Brewery on Voltaire Street in OB
By Frank Gormlie
Around the Ocean Beach Village – News and Notices
By OB Rag Staff
The Most Interesting Man Doesn’t Always Read the OB Rag …
By Jeff Stone
Community Update from Officer Surwilo on “Oversized Vehicle Ordinance”
From SDPD Officer David Surwilo
Earth Day at the OB Town Council
By Frank Gormlie
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