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: UT being sold?, the 2016 mayoral race, corporate education “reform,” Ernie celebrating 78 years, libraries reinventing themselves, homeless advocates rocking city hall, hippie life in OB, Carlsbad council follies, the oxymoron of affordable housing, CV’s eastern expansion, Judi revisiting Public Market 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
Will it be UT-Today, Tommorrow? Gannett Makes Offer for Tribune Papers
The 2016 Mayoral Contest: Being Cool is a Full Time Job for Incumbent Kevin Faulconer
The 2016 Mayoral Contest: Ed Harris Takes a Stand Against Business as Usual
The 2016 Mayoral Contest: Lori Saldaña Aims to Offer a Choice, Not an Echo
Weekly Progressive Calendar: Upcoming in San Diego
Under the Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
What’s the Matter With Corporate Education Reform?
From The Soul by Ernie McCray
Celebrating 78
Book Review Of Bill Walton’s “Back From The Dead”
City Heights: Up Close & Personal by Anna Daniels
From Hippies in Ocean Beach to Law Day in City Heights: How San Diego Libraries Reinvent Themselves
My Niche by Jeeni Criscenzo
San Diego Homeless Advocates Rock the City Council
El Machete Illustrated by Eric J. Garcia (Editorial Cartoon)
They Sleep So Soundly
North of the Fence by Barbara Zaragoza (South Bay News)
Solar Panels, Possible Carpetbagging In Chula Vista and Border Wait Times
Progressive San Diego by Frank Gormlie
Hippie Life In Ocean Beach
Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes (Video Poems)
The Mediterranean Sea
Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán (Week in Review)
Looking Back at the Week: April 17-23
San Diego Free Press Regular, At-Large and Locally Sourced Contributors:
Rancho Santa Fe School District Threatens to Expel Children of Teachers as Negotiations Drag On
By A Concerned Teacher
Carlsbad Council Outsources City’s Future Again
By Richard Riehl / The Riehl World
Is Affordable Housing in the City of San Diego an Oxymoron? Part 2
By Katheryn Rhodes and John Lawrence
San Diego Historical Resources Board: Save the Historic Caliente Mural
By Enrique Limón
The Great Eastern Expansion Into Chula Vista
By Barbara Zaragoza
Rule By American Dynasty Sinks Deeper Into Our Democracy
By Frank Thomas
A Re-Visit to Liberty Public Market
By Judi Curry / The OB Rag
What If We All ‘Left No Trace?’
By Averi Melcher / San Diego UrbDeZine
San Diego Free Press Sourced Contributors:
Millennials Poll Shows Sanders’ Revolution Reshaping US Electorate
By Deirdre Fulton / Common Dreams
Charles Koch Denounces His Creation, The Modern Republican Party
By Joan McCarter / DailyKos.com
A Look at Rebecca Traister’s New Book, ‘All the Single Ladies’
By Susan Grigsby / Daily Kos
Teenage Girls Increasingly Requesting Labiaplasty to Get the Perfect Designer Vagina
By Kali Holloway / AlterNet