Shamelessly torn from the pages of Twitter

By Doug Porter

This week’s edition of Looking Back at the Week features articles, commentaries, columns, toons and other work by San Diego Free Press regulars, irregulars, columnists, at-large contributors.

Twenty San Diegans contributed videos, poems, essays and analysis this week.

(Brother Brent Beltrán is having technical difficulties, so I’m substituting today. Any mistakes or omissions are still entirely his fault. You can send him all your hate mail though; he likes that.)

Barbara Zaragoza, shared another part of her series from the South Bay Compass on lowriders with an article focusing on women in that world.

Bob Dorn wrote eloquently about his short and bittersweet time in getting bounced off a jury.

Eric Garcia drew an editorial cartoon depicting Trump’s (aided by the Tea Party) assault on the 14th Amendment

Ernie McCray contributed an essay looking back on his time with somebody very special in his life and a poetic review of Straight Outta Compton.

Frank Gormlie shared many insights about his summer camping trip.

Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes’ Geo-Poetic series included a video/poem entitled: Colonel Sanders and the Tombs of the Kings.

Jeeni Criscenzo’s My Niche column talked about Living with ADHD in a distractive world.

Jim Miller’s Under the Perfect Sun column focused why teaching should be about the public good, not another arrow in the neo-liberal economic arsenal.

John Lawrence wrote about the American Winner Take All electoral system.

Junco Canché drew an editorial cartoon about The Donald’s slim-to-nothing chances with the Latino vote.

The Progressive San Diego series, an ongoing travelogue of intriguing and historically relevant places around town, visited The Big Kitchen Cafe in Golden Hill.

Guest writers this week included:

Andrew J. Mackay and Bryan Kim, explaining what’s going on with the striking workers at Greenpeace.

John Adams, editor at UrbDeZine, posing questions about the potentially negative impact of our pro football team on Aztec football.

City Council candidate Jose Caballero, suggesting San Diego should use its street rehab program to lay the wiring for Municipal Internet.

Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, writing about working conditions in nail salons.

Marshall Hutton, writing on behalf of SD350.org, giving SANDAG a good talkin’ to for trying to take the easy way out of mitigating climate change.

Richard Riehl, pleading for a public vote on preserving open space in Carlsbad

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The Starting Line column (written by yours truly) covered the news and tried to make sense out of stuff, including:

Monday: San Diego Unified School District trustees’ squirrely politics

Tuesday: The snake oil being hawked by proponents of pension reform

Wednesday: The proud history of protest commemorated on Women’s Equality Day

Thursday: Bigotry on the streets of San Diego, ala Trump

Friday: An NLRB ruling that could boost union organizing  

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Doug Porter was active in the early days of the alternative press in San Diego, contributing to the OB Liberator, the print version of the OB Rag, the San Diego Door, and the San Diego Street Journal. He went on to have a 35-year career in the Hospitality business and decided to go back into raising hell when he retired. He won numerous awards for his columns from the Society of Professional Journalists in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017. Doug is a cancer survivor (sans vocal chords) and lives in North Park.

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