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: Repugs attacking PP, a new stadium wrinkle, inequality in SD, Medicare turning 50, Trump digging, Chicano Park, the slow death of the party of death, the Fringe Festival, and lots of other grassroots news & progressive views.

l-r Norma Damashek, Anna Daniels, Junco Canché, Doug Porter, Brent Beltrán, Horacio Jones, Vanessa Ceceña

Horn tooting time: A few of the Freeps got recognized for our work by the local chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. Though none of us took home the gold we are pleased that our little, all volunteer, lefty news site can hold its own amongst the corporate media and other outlets and journalists who actually get paid to do this thing. Props to all the Freeps, and our readers, who make this website what it is.

Here’s more info on the Freeps that got awarded: SDFP Claims Eight Journo Awards for 2015.

San Diego Free Press Regular Columns:

The Starting Line by Doug Porter
Lies & More Lies: Planned Parenthood as the New ACORN
A New Wrinkle on the Chargers Stadium Story: Summer Olympics in LA?
As Medicare Turns 50, It’s Time to Grow the Program
USC Report: Inequality Threatens San Diego’s Future

Under the Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
Summer Chronicles #6: Lost in the Woods

From the Soul by Ernie McCray
Pride and a Whole Lot of Rain

My Niche by Jeeni Criscenzo
Dreams and Nightmares on Medi-Cal

Junco’s Jabs by Junco Canché (Editorial Cartoon)
The Donald Keeps Digging

Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes (Video Poems)
Geo-Poetic Spaces: River (For Linda Brown)

Progressive San Diego by SDFP Staff (Local Sites)
Chicano Park in Barrio Logan

Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán (Week in Review)
Looking Back at the Week: July 19-25

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

The Party of Death is Dying
By Bob Dorn  

Pope Francis: “We’ve Turned the Earth into a Pile of Filth”
By John Lawrence

Readers Write: There is No ‘Free Money’ for Stadium Study
By Joe Flynn

Creative Tornado Known as the Fringe Festival Comes to San Diego
By Mukul Khurana

Abuse of Amber Alert in San Diego?
By Frank Gormlie

SDFP Claims Eight Journo Awards for 2015
By SDFP Staff

Socially Relevant Issues Abound At the 2015 Fringe Festival
By Mukul Khurana

San Diego Free Press Sourced Contributors:       

How America Is Failing Its Schools
By Salvatore Babones / Inequality.org

Whistleblower Exposes Torture and Child Abuse at For-Profit Prison
By Sarah Lazare / Common Dreams

Economic Growth Doesn’t Make a Wealthy Nation, Safety and Happiness Do
By Araz Hachadourian / Yes! Magazine

Buying America: Shopping Can Be an Ethical Act
By David Morris / Alternet

In ‘Long Overdue’ Ruling, Canada Approves Medical Abortion Pill
By Sarah Lazare / Common Dreams

Who Will Care For Grandma?
By Marjorie E. Wood / Other Words

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Brent E. Beltrán

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.

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