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: the right to lie, local police protest, pay their own way, global plutocracy getting yo mama, black gay icons, poor K-Faulc, SD’s day of the dead celebrations, possible 100 years war, guns, Greg Cox, reflections of occupation, and lots of other grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s friendly, neighborhood, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site.
San Diego Free Press Columns:
The Starting Line by Doug Porter
San Diego County Wage Board’s Heartbreaking Hearing
Conservatives Rally Behind Exxon-Mobil’s ‘Right to Lie’
Social Security Stuck with the Bills as Companies Subvert Workman’s Comp
Protests Planned as Police Explain Gaslamp Death
‘Pay Their Own Way’ Initiative Exposes Downtown Rifts
Under the Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
Bad News Not Reported: The Drift Toward Global Plutocracy Continues Unabated
From the Soul by Ernie McCray
Thinking of Josephine and James and Langston and Other Gay Icons
NumbersRunner by Norma Damashek
Poor Mayor Faulconer
Desde la Logan by Brent E. Beltrán
San Diego Celebrates the Dead: Días de los Muertos 2015
El Machete Illustrated by Eric J. Garcia (Editorial Cartoon)
RIP José Guerrero: Maestro, Artista, and Historian of the Pilsen Murals
My Niche by Jeeni Criscenzo
Wonder Where San Diego’s Redevelopment Money Went?
Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes (Video Poems)
Visiting the Hala Sultan Tekke (The Mosque of Umm Haram)
Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán (Week in Review)
Looking Back at the Week: Oct 11-17
Sunshine/Noir II by Various Authors
Excerpt from Sunshine/Noir II: Samsay on the Porch
San Diego Free Press Regular, At-Large and Locally Sourced Contributors:
Readers Write: Grim Prospect of Hundred Years War
By Stan Levin
Guns, Angry People and Mass Murders: The Cycle Continues Until We Stop It
By John Lawrence
South Bay Rising: An Interview with San Diego County Supervisor Greg Cox
By Barbara Zaragoza / Part One of Four
Otay Ranch: An Interview with San Diego County Supervisor Greg Cox
By Barbara Zaragoza / Part Two of Four
South Bay’s Future Greenbelt: An Interview with San Diego County Supervisor Greg Cox
By Barbara Zaragoza / Part Three of Four
The Tijuana River Valley: An Interview with SD County Supervisor Greg Cox
By Barbara Zaragoza / Part Four of Four

The military checkpoint separating H1 and H2 in Hebron.
Reflections on Palestine: The Madness of Occupation in Hebron
By Pedro Rios
Geothermal: The Other California Renewable
By Peg Mitchell / SanDiego350
North of the Fence: Sex Parties and Lawsuits
By Barbara Zaragoza / South Bay Compass
Stay the Course, Republicans! Billionaires Blowing Through Cash is Very Entertaining
By Bob Dorn
Loving A Child, Protecting the Future
By Will Falk
San Diego Free Press Sourced Contributors:
A Black Perspective on Ben Carson, the Teapublican’s ‘anti-Obama’
By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos