By Brent E. Beltrán
This week’s edition of Looking Back at the Week features articles, commentaries, columns, and other work by San Diego Free Press regulars, irregulars, columnists, cartoonists, at-large contributors, and sourced writers on: K-Faulc’s state of the city speech, Chargers going bye bye, a Hollywood Penn-dejo, homelessness, The Rainmaker, DACA, The Bedeviled Dictionary, a homeless hockey player’s death, Good Samaritans, and lots of other inspiring, 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
What Mayor Kevin Faulconer Bought Into When He Endorsed Marco Rubio
Hasta Luego, San Diego
Mayor Faulconer’s State of the City Promises Will Mean Nothing to Fridoon Nehad
The State of the State: Gov. Brown is Okay, Unless You’re Republican
Boom! Sempra’s SoCal Gas Leak Gets More Dangerous by the Day
Under the Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
American Media in 2016: Those Afflicting the Comfortable Need Not Apply
From The Soul by Ernie McCray
Abe Ordover and Images of Beauty in a New Year
Junco’s Jabs by Junco Canché (Editorial Cartoon)
Sean Penn-dejo
El Machete Illustrated by Eric J. Garcia (Editorial Cartoon)
Crocodile Tears for the Children
My Niche by Jeeni Criscenzo
Emergency Shelter for San Diego’s Most Vulnerable
North of the Fence by Barbara Zaragoza
Sean Penn’s Drug Lord Interview
Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes (Video Poems)
Absent Season
Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán (Week in Review)
Looking Back at the Week: January 3-9
San Diego Free Press Regular, At-Large and Locally Sourced Contributors:
Supreme Court Case Impacts Teachers, Public Employees
By Lindsay Burningham / San Diego Education Association
No, Mayor Hall, What We See is Not What We’ll Get
By Richard Riehl / The Riehl World
European Refugees Are Better Off Than San Diego’s Homeless
By John Lawrence
Suburban Sprawl Continues Creep Across Desert
By Shaun Gonzalez / Mojave Desert Blog
The Rainmaker, Charles Hatfield, and the Flood of 1916
By Patricia Maxwell
No, You Are Automatically Disqualified: DACA Should Be a Gateway
By Leobardo Aviles
Border Construction May Cause Flooding In Poor Tijuana Neighborhoods
By Barbara Zaragoza
Readers Write: Official Recognition of San Diego’s ‘Good Samaritans’
By Mic Porte
The Bedeviled Dictionary
By Bob Dorn
Stone Fruit, Roses and the Wet Winter Garden
By Susan Taylor
From Hockey Star To Homeless: Craig Miller Dies on Christmas Day In Ocean Beach
By Vera Sanchez and Sunny Rey / OB Rag
San Diego Free Press Sourced Contributors:
‘The Best There Is’: World Mourns Artistic Maverick David Bowie
By Lauren McCauley / Common Dreams
“The Big Short” and Bernie’s Plan to Bust Up Wall Street
By Robert Reich / RobertReich.org
Uber’s Immigrant Drivers Look Forward to Better Pay—and Bigger Voice
By Ana Sofia Knauf / Yes! Magazine
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