Looking Back at the Week: August 9-15

By Brent E. Beltrán

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, and sourced writers on: FrankenTrump, the stadium joke, Black Lives STILL Matter, DeMaio’s pension scam, the SD infrastructure blues, high stakes climate poker, checkmate Mr. Trump, cutting women’s healthcare, bad signature campaign in Carlsbad, lowriders in SD, and lots of other grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s all volunteer, community news site.

San Diego Free Press Regular Columns:

The Starting Line by Doug Porter
Dump the Trump? GOP Freaking Out as Their Frankenstein Runs Amok
Ferguson Report: Black Lives, Still Trying to Matter
The Chargers Stadium Proposal is a Joke, Right?
Bernie Sanders is a Great Candidate. [Some of] His Supporters, Not So Much
DeMaio’s Latest Pension Scam Fails Sacramento Sniff Test
A Look at San Diego’s Infrastructure Blues

Under the Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
Staring Over the Brink: Obama, Brown, and High Stakes Climate Politics

My Niche by Jeeni Criscenzo
Checkmate

Progressive San Diego by SDFP Staff
City Farmers Nursery

Junco’s Jabs by Junco Canché (Editorial Cartoon)
Planned Parenthood is Evil. Pass It On.

El Machete Illustrated by Eric J. Garcia (Editorial Cartoon)
Cutting Women’s Health

Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes (Video Poems)
Geo-Poetic Spaces: The Myth of Finance

Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán (Week in Review)
Looking Back at the Week: August 2-8

San Diego Free Press Regular, At-Large and Locally Sourced Contributors:

Duped by Signature Campaign for Strawberry Fields Mall in Carlsbad
By Richard Riehl

US Mayors Fed Up With Paying Wall Street Interest and Fees
By John Lawrence

Lowriders in San Diego: Jose Romero Tells The History
By Barbara Zaragoza / South Bay Compass

Death by a Thousand Cuts
By Sarah “Steve” Mosko / Boogie Green

San Diego Free Press Sourced Contributors:

365 Days and 605 Armored Military Vehicles Later: Police Militarization a Year After Ferguson
By Kanya Bennett / ACLU Speak Freely

A Driving Force: Electric Vehicles are on the Verge of Disrupting Energy Markets
By Emily Schwartz Greco / OtherWords

Lawrence Lessig Considers Presidential Run to Un-Rig Electoral System
By Deidre Fulton / Common Dreams

Where Did the Antiwar Movement Go?
By Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatch.com

President Obama Wants to Continue Imprisoning Immigrant Families
By Michael Tan / American Civil Liberties Union

‘The Problem With the Police, In Other Words, Is Not That They Have Unions, But That They Are Police’
Erik Loomis / Lawyers, Guns and Money

US Raises Flag in Cuba After 54 Years, but ‘Signs of Mistrust Linger’
By Deidre Fulton / Common Dreams

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Brent E. Beltrán is a third generation pocho and second generation San Diegan that lives next door to Chicano Park in Barrio Logan. He's married to his warrior healer wife Olympia and is the proud father of a youngling name Sandino. Brent is a member of the SDFP Editorial Board, occasionally writes the column Desde la Logan and posts Looking Back at the Week every Sunday morning. He can be contacted at desdelalogan@gmail.com and through his Twitter account @DesdeLaLogan.