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: the Panama Papers, 2016 California Primary, Cruz coming to SD, rooting for losers, housed to homeless, the passing of a local jazz legend, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, PP helping a friend, a new era of feminism and lots of other inspiring (and sometimes depressing), grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s friendly, neighborhood, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site.
San Diego Free Press Columns:
The Starting Line by Doug Porter
Lies of the Rich and Famous: Off-Shoring Dark Money and Fighting the Minimum Wage
Highways, Not Skyways Motivate Voters in SANDAG Polling for Ballot Measure
Ballot Box Basics for San Diegans: What You Need to Know About the 2016 California Primary
So-Called Religious Freedom Laws Amount to An Attack on Democracy
Better Ted Than…? Cruz Stumps San Diego Monday
Under the Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
Go Padres: Vivas to Those Who Have Failed!
From The Soul by Ernie McCray
Feeling the Bern When it Comes to Changing the Status Quo
City Heights Up Close & Personal by Anna Daniels
Housed to Homeless in San Diego: Could It Happen to You?
NumbersRunner by Norma Damashek
San Diego is Led Around by the Nose
Junco’s Jabs by Junco Canché
Panama Papers Expose Rich Roaches
North of the Fence by Barbara Zaragoza (South Bay News)
Father Wakes Up To Vandalism, Includes Racial Slur
Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes (Video Poems)
Geo-Poetic Spaces: Personification of Wind
Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán (Week in Review)
Looking Back at the Week: March 20-April 1
San Diego Free Press Regular, At-Large and Locally Sourced Contributors:
RIP Joe Marillo, San Diego’s Godfather of Jazz
By John Lawrence
Fukushima + 5: the Disaster Continues – Nuclear Shutdown News for March 2016
By Michael Steinberg / Black Rain Press
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, San Diego Chapter
By Barbara Zaragoza
How Planned Parenthood Helped a Friend
By Anne Haule / Musings of a Boomer Feminist
The New Liberty Station Public Market – A First Look
By Judi Curry / OB Rag
OB Planning Board: Harris and Saldaña Blast Faulconer, Ambert Re-elected as Chair, and Del Mar Project Approved
By Frank Gormlie / OB Rag
A New Era of Feminism: Women Continue to Inspire Women
By Leah Schroeder
San Diego Free Press Sourced Contributors:
To Be Arab and American
By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
New Veteran-Led Campaign Challenges Islamophobia
By Brian Trautman
Mexico Assumes Role of Turning Migrant Children Back
Steven Dudley / InsightCrime.org
The History of Abortion Is a History of Punishing Women
By Larry Schwartz / AlterNet
Progressive Debate Deepens as Sanders Battles Clinton for New York
By Deirdre Fulton / CommonDreams
Joseph Medicine Crow, Last Crow War Chief and Living Link to Battle of Little Bighorn, Dies at 102
By Nika Knight / CommonDreams
Beyond Panama: What the World Really Needs is the #DelawarePapers
By Nika Knight / CommonDreams
Why the Panama Papers Are a Feminist Issue
By Chiara Capraro, Francesca Rhodes / OpenDemocracy.Net
Wall Street Should Pay a Sales Tax, Too
By Sarah Anderson / OtherWords