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, at-large contributors and sourced writers on the Chargers leaving narrative, crime and punishment roosting at home, gas prices on the rise, Corey Briggs, CPAC wingnuttery, Barrio Bits, adjunct profs getting screwed, Gandalf vetoes XL, Perry’s Café review, slow renewable energy conversion, happy talk Newt, the best medicine, the origins of institutionalized racism and lots of news nuggets from OB.
San Diego Free Press Regular Columns:
The Starting Line by Doug Porter
The Unnecessary Parts of the ‘Chargers Are Going to Leave’ Narrative
The War on Terror Comes Home: Crime and Punishment in the 21st Century
Gas Prices Rise in San Diego as Refinery Strike Spreads
Environmental Lawyer Cory Briggs: Saint or Sinner?
The Right and the Righteous Aspire to Greatness at CPAC
Under the Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
A Call to Action on the Labor Crisis in Higher Ed: Colleges Are Running On the Backs of Underpaid Part-Timers
From the Soul by Ernie McCray
Joining Spirit with the Billions of Us Human Beings
Desde la Logan by Brent E. Beltrán
Barrio Bits: Will East Village Chargers Stadium Bring Ethnic Cleansing to Barrio Logan?
Junco’s Jabs by Junco Canché
President Gandalf Vetoes the Keystone XL Pipeline
Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes (Video Poems)
Geo-Poetic Spaces: Unvarnished
The History of the Neighborhood House by Maria Garcia
The History of Neighborhood House in Logan Heights: Love and Marriage, 1940s
Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán
Looking Back at the Week: Feb 15-21
San Diego Free Press Regular, At-Large and Locally Sourced Contributors:
Have You Been To a Foreign Country In the Past Few Weeks?
By Judi Curry
Some Things Never Change: A Review of Perry’s Café
By Judi Curry
A Close Encounter With a Coyote at Laguna Ojo de Liebre
By Lori Saldaña
Conversion to Renewable Energy is Going Too Slow to Avoid Catastrophe – Part 4
By Frank Thomas and John Lawrence
The Old Hippie Gets a Medical Marijuana Card
The Ol’ OB Hippie Writes / The OB Rag
Newt Gingrich Happy Talk at the Times of San Diego
By Anna Daniels
The Origins of Institutionalized Racism – a System to Control Blacks … and Whites
By Frank Gormlie
Unist’ot’en Camp: The Best Medicine
By Will Falk
San Diego Free Press Sourced Contributors:
Can Eve Get Elected?
By Dr. Carol Carnes
Why We’re All Becoming Independent Contractors
By Robert Reich
Firing a Mom Because She’s Breastfeeding Is Sex Discrimination
By Galen Sherwin / ACLU Blog of Rights
Justice Comes to Mississippi
By Federal District Court Judge Carlton Reeves
Feds Threaten D.C. Officials With Prison If They Go Through with Pot Legalization
By Jay Syrmopoulos / The Free Thought Project
OB Rag Contributors:
Judi Curry: Host to 413 Foreign Exchange Students Over 23 Years
By OB Rag Staff
OB Time: Going Legal After 50 Years
The Ol’ OB Hippie Writes
Vacation Rentals Roil Beach Neighbors – Issue to Be Taken Up by City Council
By Frank Gormlie
Ocean Beach Planning Board Sample Ballot for March 10 Election
By OB Rag Staff
Nuclear Shutdown News for February 2015
By Michael Steinberg
Part-Time Professors Protest Full-Time Screw Job
By OB Rag Staff
News and Notices for Ocean Beach and the Peninsula
By OB Rag Staff
OB Hostel Termite Tent Merely Precautionary
By Matthew Wood
Public Safety and Pie Time at the OB Town Council
By Lois Lane
Officer Surwilo Gives ‘the Other Side of the Story’ About Jimmy Maroutis and the Police
By Lois Lane
The Origins of Institutionalized Racism – a System to Control Blacks … and Whites
By Frank Gormlie