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 wrapping up the end of the year, hope for 2015, 2014 lessons learned and unlearned, stories corporate media didn’t tell, tamales and smiles, cartoonist ready to draw 2015, poetic re-solutions, NY bans the frackers, Barrio Logan gets a gateway, Abbie Hoffman resurrected onstage, remembering Pete Chacón and a pocketful of OB stuff.
San Diego Free Press Regular Columns:
The Starting Line by Doug Porter
End of the Year: Listicles of Made Up News, Brazen Lies and Centrist Propaganda
Nightmares, Political Aspirations and Hope for 2015
Lessons Not Learned in 2014, Part One: Tourism and Law Enforcement
Lessons Learned in 2014: #FightforFifteen and #Icantbreathe
2014 Wrap Up: The Tide Turns on Rape Culture, Climate Change and Same Sex Marriage
Under the Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
The Most Important Stories That the Corporate Media Didn’t Tell You in 2014
From the Soul by Ernie McCray
A Holiday Season with Tamales and Smiles
Junco’s Jabs by Junco Canché (Editorial Cartoons)
Ready to Draw the New Year
Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes (Video Poems)
Geo-Poetic Spaces: Re-Solutions
Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán
Looking Back at the Week: Dec 21-27
San Diego Free Press Regular and At-Large Contributors:
New York State Bans Fracking: California Next?
By John Lawrence
The Lighting of the Barrio Logan Gateway Sign (Video)
By Horacio Jones
Herbert Siguenza on ‘Steal Heaven’: We Have More Power Than We Think
By Alejandra Enciso Guzmán
The Election of Pete Chacón: Latino Hope, Pride and a New Belief in the System
By Maria E. Garcia
OB Rag Contributors:
Restaurant Review : Fig Tree Café at Liberty Station
By Judi Curry
End o’Year Local News from OB and Point Loma
By Frank Gormlie
Missing 12-Year-Old Chula Vista Girl Last Heard of in Ocean Beach
By OB Rag Staff
2014 Beach Cleanup Results – Fiesta Island Had Most Trash – Not OB
From Coastkeeper and Surfrider
Stumps Market Gets the Widder Curry’s Goat
By Judi Curry
Ocean Beach Restaurants Looking to Hire
By Frank Gormlie