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
Vox Populi says
Mayor Faulkner appoints Baber to Ethics Commission, someone he endorsed for La Mesa City Council. Can you say CONFLICT OF INTEREST?