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 Labor Day still matters, DeMaio dissed by Chamber, fast food strike, Living the Wage challenge, the TOT, Prop 47, Flor y Canto in Logan Heights, city government run like a biz, sand sculpting, Neighborhood House, Baja lovers, the Mayor’s tax giveaway, SD Rep, fall gardening, immigration and deportation, OB Town Council meeting, seasonal lifeguards, Raglan Beach cleanup and so much more. Click the links below and read what you may have missed.
San Diego Free Press Regular Columns:
The Starting Line by Doug Porter:
Labor Day Rant: Maybe it’s Time We Hit These Cheating Corporate Bosses Upside the Head with a Two by Four
Actions Set for September 4th as Fast Food Workers Vow to Do ‘Whatever it Takes’
DeMaio Dissed by US Chamber of Commerce
On Strike! Shut it Down! Fast Food Protesters Take to the Streets in San Diego and Around the Nation
Live the Wage Challenge Highlights Low Pay Reality for Nearly 200,000 San Diegans
Under the Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
Why Labor Day Still Matters: Unions and the Future of American Democracy
Who Runs San Diego? by Cory Briggs
The Use and Abuse of the Transient Occupancy Tax
From the Soul by Ernie McCray
Yes on Proposition 47: The Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act of 2014
Desde la Logan by Brent E. Beltrán
Bay Area Poets and Musicians to Share Talents on Behalf of Refugee Children
Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Monschau Opera
El Machete Illustrated by Eric J. Garcia
Not Very Christian
NumbersRunner by Norma Damashek
City Government: Why Can’t We Run it Like a Business?
Field of View by Annie Lane
Sand Sculpting in San Diego
The History of the Neighborhood House by Maria Garcia
The History of Neighborhood House in Logan Heights: Two Generations of Carriedos and Tennis Comes to the Barrio
Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán
Looking Back at the Week at SDFP and OB Rag: August 24-30
San Diego Free Press Regular and At-Large Contributors:
Baja Lovers: Ex-Pats in Mexico
By Horacio Jones
Video Pick: Which Side Are You On?
By Anna Daniels
Failure of Hospital, San Diego County in Infant Molestation Case Serves as Argument Against Personal Privacy
By Annie Lane
The Fishiness of Mayor Kevin’s Tax Giveaway to Illumina Corporation
By John Lawrence
San Diego Rep Opens the Season with “The Pianist of Willesden Lane”
By Alejandra Enciso Guzmán
Fall Gardening in San Diego
By Susan Taylor
Immigration, Deportation, and Family Separation
By Vanessa Ceceña
OB Rag Articles:
OB Town Council Meeting: “The Parrots of Southern California”
By Lois Lane
OB Planning Board Wed., Sept 3: Quigley Complex for Condos and New Units on Abbott Empty Lot
By Frank Gormlie
Reader Rave: Happy Endings All Around At an OB Barber Shop
By Geoff Page
Are These Residences Coming to Abbott the Right Project for OB?
By Frank Gormlie
OB Planning Board Approves 3 Two-Story Residences on Abbott and Voltaire
By Frank Gormlie
Take Back OB at Second Annual Raglan Beach Cleanup
By Matthew Wood
Is This Really the Time to Let the Seasonal Lifeguards Go?
By Frank Gormlie
11 Arrested at San Diego Fast-Food Worker Protest
By Center on Policy Initiatives