By Brent E. Beltrán
This week’s edition of Looking Back at the Week features articles, commentaries, columns, toons and other work by San Diego Free Press regulars, irregulars, columnists, at-large contributors, and sourced writers on: electile dysfunction, dirty ALEC opposing clean power, Voting Right Act proxy battle, lost places Downtown, extreme weather, our Galastravaganzaversary, a local brewer selling out to big beer, the top ten lobbyists, Horacio Jones winging it, the return of lowriders to Highland Ave. and lots of other grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s all volunteer, community news site.
San Diego Free Press Regular Columns:
The Starting Line by Doug Porter
Electile Dysfunction: GOP Candidates Prepare for ‘Happy Hour’ Debate
Opposition to Clean Power Plan Penned at San Diego ALEC Meeting
As California Expands Eligibility, the Voting Rights Act Becomes a Proxy War
August Tales from America’s Finest Tourist Plantation
Fox News Debate: American Idol for Republicans
Under the Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
Summer Chronicles #7: Ten Moments in Places that No Longer Exist in Downtown San Diego
From the Soul by Ernie McCray
Thankful That I Have No Regrets Such as These
My Niche by Jeeni Criscenzo
Lazy Fare in the Garden: Just Let It Be
Junco’s Jabs by Junco Canché (Editorial Cartoon)
Go Chargers!
El Machete Illustrated by Eric J. Garcia (Editorial Cartoon)
Hecho en Estados Unidos
Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes (Video Poems)
Geo-Poetic Spaces: Mothers of Soldiers
Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán (Week in Review)
Looking Back at the Week: July 26-August 1
San Diego Free Press Regular, At-Large and Locally Sourced Contributors:
Nuclear Shutdown News – July 2015
By Michael Steinberg / Black Rain Press
Extreme Weather Watch: July 2015 – Huge Number of Wildfires in CA Force Evacuations
By John Lawrence
Here’s the List of Top 10 Groups Lobbying Our Government – and There’s Not One Union on It
By OB Rag Staff
Lowriders Return To Highland Avenue in National City
By Barbara Zaragoza / South Bay Compass
San Diego Brewery May Be ‘Selling Out’. Does It Matter?
By John P. Anderson
OB Rag’s “Kid” Is Now 3 Years Old – and You’re Invited to the Party
By OB Rag Staff
48 Hour Film Project to Include SDFP Video-Journo Horacio Jones’ ‘Wingin’ It’
By SDFP Staff
San Diego Free Press Sourced Contributors:
As ‘Do-Or-Die’ Talks End In Failure, Could TPP Be Derailed for Good?
By Sarah Lazare / Common Dreams
Ta-Nehisi Coates Speaks to all of Us in ‘Between the World and Me’
By Susan Grigsby / Daily Kos
Don’t Dismiss Trump: He’s Surging in the Polls, and More Republicans Say They’d Vote for Him
By Zaid Jilani / AlterNet
A Driving Force
By Emily Schwartz Greco / OtherWords
Repulsed by Animal Cruelty, Attendance (and Profits) at SeaWorld Plummet
By Nadia Prupis / Common Dreams
What If Teachers Got Million-Dollar Deals Instead of Athletes? In Key and Peele’s World, They Do
By Christopher Zumski Finke / Yes! Magazine
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