Looking Back at the Week: May 15-21
By Brent E. Beltrán
This week’s edition of Looking Back at the Week features articles, commentaries, columns, satire, and other work by San Diego Free Press regulars, irregulars, columnists, at-large contributors, and sourced writers on: SDFP’s picks for the June Primary, feeling the Bern in San Diego politics, the County $upervisors, Bernie and Bill make stops in SD, Trump coming to town, poverty the Cali way, the City Attorney forum, Norma Hernandez, a pissed off primary voter, students standing against la migra, the end of cannabis prohibition, 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.
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San Diego Free Press Columns:
The Starting Line by Doug Porter
Feeling #theBern AND the Burn in San Diego Politics
Much Ado About Money – County Supervisors on the Primary Ballot
Progressive San Diego Voter Guide for June 2016 Primary
Bernie Sanders, Bill Clinton Making San Diego Stops
Billionaire Blowhard Books Convention Center
Under the Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
The California Way of Poverty
City Heights: Up Close & Personal by Anna Daniels
City Attorney Candidate Forum and San Diego’s Fault Line
From The Soul by Ernie McCray
Having Fun Watching my Grandson Having Fun
North of the Fence by Barbara Zaragoza (South Bay News)
Bernie To Visit National City …
Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes (Video Poems)
Another World
Latinos in San Diego by Maria E. Garcia
Norma Hernandez: ‘Getting our Community Educated’
Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán (Week in Review)
Looking Back at the Week: May 8-14
San Diego Free Press Regular, At-Large and Locally Sourced Contributors:
Swaggerin’ Donald Reaches Out to the Free Press
By John Lawrence
“As a California Primary Voter – I’m Pretty Pissed Off!”
By OB Joe / OB Rag
When Students Stand Against Border Patrol Presence at Career Fairs, Administrators Should Take Their Direction
By Pedro Rios
Local San Diego Anti-Trump Emergency Response Network Forms
Frank Gormlie / OB Rag
One Death is Too Many – It’s Time for Immediate Safety Improvements to 54th Street
By Anastasia Brewster / City Heights Community Development Corporation
UC San Diego Faculty Call on Regents to Divest UC Funds from Fossil Fuels
By UC San Diego Academic Senate
The Pot Wars 2016: The End to Marijuana Prohibition in California Is Near
By Frank Gormlie / OB Rag
Readers Write: A Local High Schooler Feels The Bern
By Luz Victoria Simón-Jasso
San Diego Free Press Sourced Contributors:
Much Ado About Raised Fists
By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
Trump Quietly Hires a Hardcore Anti-Abortion Crusader, Christian Right Delivers Heavy Applause
By Elizabeth Preza / AlterNet
Uncommon Victories for the Common Good
By Donald Cohen / Capital & Main
‘Bathroom Bills’ Don’t Help Women at All
By Jill Richardson / OtherWords
The Age of Precarious: 6 in 10 Americans Living on the Financial Edge
By Deirdre Fulton / Common Dreams
White Women Are Dying Prematurely
By Kali Holloway / AlterNet