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 big lies by Dirty Energy, the costs of football, DeMaio smelling bad, an intensified minimum wage fight, the Illumina lawsuit, an oppressed Chamber, false CC premises, Obama chumping out, glutton buddies Kevin & Jerry, taxi drivers on the move, bad reality, Gloria’s living the wage challenge, Dick & Henry’s warmongering, regulating initiatives, Vets 360, lots of OB stuff and much more. Go read what you’ve missed out on this week. You’ll thank us.
San Diego Free Press Regular Columns:
The Starting Line by Doug Porter:
Dirty Energy’s Big Lie Campaign About California’s So-Called Hidden Gas Tax
I’m No Longer Ready for Some Football
There’s Always a Bad Smell Downwind of Carl DeMaio
The Fight to Save the Minimum Wage Hike Intensifies in San Diego
City Threatened with Lawsuit Over Illumina Economic Incentives Deal
Under the Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
The San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce: Oppressed Underdog?
Who Runs San Diego? by Linda Perine
Who Runs San Diego? Six False Premises for Convention Center Expansion
Desde la Logan by Brent E. Beltrán
Obama Reneges on Using Executive Action to Implement Immigration Reform Until After Midterm Election
Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Dresden
Junco’s Jabs by Junco Canché
Palin, Snyder, and Ditka “Honoring” Native Americans
Faulconer & Sanders Dine Like Gluttons
El Machete Illustrated by Eric J. Garcia
No Regrets, Mr. Cheney?
The History of the Neighborhood House by Maria Garcia
The History of Neighborhood House in Logan Heights: Mary Fisher Garcia
Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán
Looking Back at the Week at SDFP and OB Rag: August 31-September 6
San Diego Free Press Regular and At-Large Contributors:
For the Love of Taxi Workers: Hundreds of Immigrant Taxi Workers Mobilizing to Fight for Their Freedom
By Sarah Saez
What Happens When Reality Isn’t Good Enough
By Bob Dorn
Extreme Weather Watch: August 2014 – Southwest US May Face Megadrought
By John Lawrence
Living the Wage is Indeed a Challenge in San Diego
By Todd Gloria
Beating the War Drums: Beware the Advice of Mission Creeps Cheney and Kissinger
By Anna Daniels
American Football Fantasy
By Jay Powell
San Diego Needs to Regulate the Initiative Industry
By Lori Saldaña
Poisoned Chalice Electric Rate “Fixing” Threatens Community Energy in San Diego
By Jay Powell
How Smart Was That Lambchop? And Do His Friends Miss Him?
By Sarah “Steve” Mosko
Escondido Council Candidate Forum Reveals Stances on Golf Course, Charter City Propositions
By Rick Moore
Vets 360
Video by Horacio Jones
OB Rag Articles:
What’s Shaking in Ocean Beach?
By Frank Gormlie
9/11: San Diegans to Demonstrate Against Supreme Court Justice Scalia
By OB Rag Staff
Reader Rave: “Why I Jumped Off Sunset Cliffs Yesterday.”
By Anonymous Reader
Praise to the OB Rag From the Planning Board
By Frank Gormlie
Councilman Ed Harris: “Why I voted to increase the minimum wage in San Diego.”
By Ed Harris
OB Community Plan Tentatively Scheduled for Coastal Commission Hearing in Newport Beach, Oct. 8 – 10
By Frank Gormlie
California Fish Stories – How Some Seafood Has ‘Come back’ and How San Diego’s Bluefin Tuna ‘Is On the Way Out’
By Frank Gormlie