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 our cowardly mayor vetoing the minimum wage ordinance, a Logan Heights businessman getting hated on, two Machete toons, video poetry from Ish, ACLU appealing Esco’s shelter denial, Extreme Weather Watch, the continuing story of the Neighborhood House, Who’s Running SD continues with Papa Ugh Manchester, the journey of unaccompanied minors, Wall St. redevelopment schemes, Lucas O’Conner contemplates what could have been, reverberations of OB plan vote, and lots more San Diego community journo stuff. If you haven’t read them yet then now’s the time. Get to it!
San Diego Free Press Regular Columns
The Starting Line by Doug Porter:
Congressman Darrell Issa’s Cherished Benghazi Crusade Crashes and Burns
Profiles in Republican Cowardice, Starting with Mayor Kevin Faulconer
The Anti Minimum Wage Hired Guns Coming to Town
San Diego Voters Support Minimum Wage, Earned Sick Days Ordinance by Nearly Two-to-One Margin in New Poll
The Real Battle Begins: Faulconer Vetoes Minimum Wage Hike
Under the Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
In Paradise: For the Time Being
Desde la Logan by Brent E. Beltrán
Logan Heights Restaurateur Faces Hate for Supporting Refugee Children
El Machete Illustrated by Eric J. García
Dirty Hands
Sucking Up Will Get You Nowhere Mr. Obama
From the Soul by Ernie McCray
Helping Young People Who See the World through Frosted Windows
Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Assembling Lawns
The History of the Neighborhood House by Maria Garcia
The History of Neighborhood House in Logan Heights: Garden Parties at the Marston House and Other Fundraising
Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán
Looking Back at the Week at SDFP and OB Rag: July 27-August 2
San Diego Free Press Regular and At-Large Contributors
ACLU Appeals Escondido Planning Commission’s Shelter Denial
By ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties
Unaccompanied Minors: Their Arduous Journey and Their Unknown Fate
By Vanessa Ceceña
Extreme Weather Watch: July 2014 – Record Flames, Record Drought
By John Lawrence
Beware of Wall Street Schemes on Redevelopment
By Murtaza H. Baxamusa, Ph.D
DIY Resistance: Fall in Love
By Will Falk
Mid-Summer Political Follies, California Style
By Gordon Clanton
Who Runs San Diego?– Douglas Manchester and U-T San Diego
By Eva Posner
What Could Have Been
By Lucas O’Connor
OB Rag Articles
John Ambert: “OB Is Classic California”
By John Ambert
What I Love About My OB People’s Organic Food Co-op
By Kim McGinley
Reverberations from Historic City Council Vote on OB Community Plan
By Frank Gormlie
Is CVS Breaking Promises to OB Before Doors Have Even Opened?
By Micah Mitrosky
Advisory Council: Safety in Sunset Cliffs Natural Park
By Lois Lane
Orcas Saving Humans
By Marc Snelling
Short Video of City Council Vote on OB Community Plan
Video by Anthony Palmiotto
News and Notes in and around Ocean Beach
By OB Rag staff
Mayor Faulconer’s First 100 Days: Veto Minimum-Wage Ordinance and Stalling on City’s Environmental Policies
By Frank Gormlie
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