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 the minimum wage and civil disobedience, the unjust firing of SCPA’s principal, a well spent Saturday at Comic-Con, the border refugee crisis, Kaskari’s ridiculous homeless stunt, Labor Studies at City, Sheriff Joe hating in Ramona, Escondido just hating, P100 program targeting the poor, North Pacific Dispatches, Who Runs SD, the OB plan getting approved and lots more good stuff from San Diego’s finest community journalists and writers. If you haven’t read them yet then now is the time to catch up. So what are you waiting for? Read them!
San Diego Free Press Regular Columns:
The Starting Line by Doug Porter:
As the Downtown Drama on Minimum Wage Plays Out, Fast Food Workers Talk Civil Disobedience
Requiem for a Overachieving School Principal
Unraveling the Border Refugee Crisis
‘Poor For a Week’ – Neel Kashkari’s Trickle Down Game Show
Under the Perfect Sun by Kelly Mayhew
Lessons for a New Gilded Age: Labor Studies Courses at City College
Junco’s Jabs by Junco Canché:
Who You Calling Illegal?
Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Desensitized
The History of the Neighborhood House by Maria Garcia
The History of Neighborhood House in Logan Heights: Emma Lopez
Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán
Looking Back at the Week at SDFP and OB Rag: July 20-26
San Diego Free Press Regular and At-Large Contributors:
Joe Arpaio Meets With Tea Party Group and Supporters in Ramona
By Miguel Cid
Gone with the Wind Escondido Style
By Fredi Avalos, Ph.D.
Neighborhood House Association Golf Gala in Rancho Bernardo Tees Off Head Start Teachers
By Rebecca Garcia
San Diego’s P100 Program Targets the Poor and Vulnerable While Letting the Rich and Powerful Off the Hook
By John Lawrence
A Saturday Well Spent
By Court Allen
Who Runs San Diego? – Local Broadcast TV News Operations
By Doug Porter
The Epic Battle between Doctor and Student Beneath the “Ether Dome”
By Alejandra Enciso Guzmán
Premiere Video Learning Tool Gives Power Back to the Communities
By Environmental Health Coalition
Escondido Mayor Abed Paves Over Inconvenient Facts
By Don Greene
Disappearance of Ocean Plastics Is Nothing to Celebrate
By Sarah “Steve” Mosko
North Pacific Dispatches: An Alaskan Cruise, Sans Cocktails
By Lori Saldaña
North Pacific Dispatches: Mercury, Cesium, Plankton and Whales
By Lori Saldaña
North Pacific Dispatches: July 30.5? Chronologically Confused
By Lori Saldaña
OB Rag Articles:
Ocean Beach Mobilizes for City Council Show-Down on Tuesday, July 29th
By Frank Gormlie
Ocean Beach: All Out to the City Council Hearing Today – July 29th
By Frank Gormlie
City Council Unanimously Approves OB Community Plan
By Frank Gormlie
Reader Rant: An End To Our Commercial Zones?
By David Little
OB – the “Haight-Ashbury of San Diego” – Not Eligible for Medical Marijuana Dispensary – But Midway Is
By Frank Gormlie
Gio Ingolia: The OB Community Plan “Ensures Our Small-Town Feel”
By Giovanni Ingolia
Peter Ruscitti: ‘OB Community Plan’s Goals to Maintain Small-Scale and Harmony between New and Existing Housing.’
By Peter Ruscitti
Gretchen Newsom: “We’re not a special interest group! We are Ocean Beach!”
By Gretchen Newsom
A Toast to O.B.s Community Plan!
By Kathy Blavatt
Mindy Pellessier: “We OBceans are a resilient and tenacious lot.”
By Mindy Pellessier