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Looking Back at the Week: April 24-30

May 1, 2016 by Brent E. Beltrán

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sdfpfbavBy 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

Sleeping-SoundlyEl 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

 

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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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