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: post-Scalia partisanship, education Walk Ins, FBI crying wolf, pragmatic realism, becoming bilingual, MTS border racism, Roger and Norma Cazares, the face of homelessness, making peace, socially-blind urban planning, moral courage, ACLU and others calling out SDPD and lots of other inspiring (and sometimes depressing), 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
Justice Scalia’s Passing Portends a Bitter Partisan Showdown
Looking Down the Road at San Diego
San Diegans Join ‘Walk Ins’ Aiming to ‘Reclaim Our Schools’
The FBI’s iPhone Emergency: Crying Wolf to Beat the Fourth Amendment
Under the Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
Pragmatic Realism Inc: Who Wants the Era of Big-Program Liberalism Over?
City Heights: Up Close & Personal by Anna Daniels
Se Habla Something Else: Have You Learned a Second Language?
From The Soul by Ernie McCray
America Was Great at One Time?
Junco’s Jabs by Junco Canché (Editorial Cartoons)
Scalia’s Ghost Visits Junco
North of the Fence by Barbara Zaragoza
Institutionalized Racism in San Ysidro …
Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes (Video Poems)
Acoustic Shadows
Latinos in San Diego by María E. García
Roger and Norma Cazares: ‘Action Matters’
Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán (Week in Review)
Looking Back at the Week: February 7-13
San Diego Free Press Regular, At-Large and Locally Sourced Contributors:
Socially-Blind Urban Planning
By Murtaza Baxamusa / Rooflines
The Face of Homelessness in San Diego – Part 2
By John Lawrence
Let’s Make Peace
By Barbara Zaragoza / South Bay Compass
Civic San Diego’s Plan to Bypass the Living Wage Ordinance
By Murtaza Baxamusa
On Moral Courage: By The Recipient Of The Award
By Rev. Richard Lawrence
When The Junkyard Is Home
By Barbara Zaragoza
ACLU, 26 Groups Call on Department of Justice to Investigate San Diego Police Department
By SDFP Staff
Readers Write: Assess Risks Before Reducing Charter School Permitting Requirements
By Justin DeCesare
Scalia Death Could Impact El Cajon Anti-Abortion Clinic Case
By East County News Service
Billionaire Developer Pays Off County GOP for Backing Carlsbad’s Measure A
By Richard Riehl / The Riehl World
Human Activity Ushers in New Geologic Epoch
By Sarah “Steve” Mosko
Fray Serra o Capitan Frémont
Transcribed by John Lawrence / From the original San Diego Free Press
San Diego Free Press Sourced Contributors:
The Blind Spots of Dead White Men
By Jill Richardson / Other Words
Who the Election Should Be For: The 7 Most Beaten-Down Americans
By Paul Bucheit / CommonDreams
Crab & Salmon Fisheries Threatened By Historic Crisis
By Dan Bacher / Indybay.org
Two Los Angeles Cops Charged With Raping Multiple Women Over Years
By Kali Holloway / AlterNet