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: Props 57-62 & 66, police shootings, Fred Glass, skyrocketing rents, old badgers, CV’s sales tax increase, greening your wardrobe, Spanos’ trick play, ACLA seeking answers for Olango, the 5th anniversary of Occupy SD, and lots of other 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
Prop 57 – If Sentencing Reform Passes, Will Hospital Bombers Run Amok?
Angst Over Police Shootings Rocks California Cities
Prop 58 – Righting a Wrong Thru Local Control of Bilingual Education
Props 59 & 60 – Dirty Money and Filthy Sex
Prop 61 – Big Pharma Promises Revenge If It Passes
Props 62 & 66 – Nay or Yea on the Death Penalty
Under the Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
From Mission to Microchip: An Interview with California Labor Historian Fred Glass. Part 2
City Heights: Up Close & Personal by Anna Daniels
Skyrocketing Rents, Same Old Housing Stock in City Heights
From the Soul by Ernie McCray
Thinking of Old Badgers in the Autumn of Our Years
North of the Fence by Barbara Zaragoza
Chula Vista’s Sales Tax Increase: It Actually Might Be a Good Idea
Geo-Poetic Spaces by By Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Geo-Poetic Spaces: Heirloom
Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán
Looking Back at the Week: Sept 25-Oct 1
San Diego Free Press Regular, At-Large and Locally/Nationally Sourced Contributors:
Nuclear Shutdown News – September 2016
By Michael Steinberg / Black Rain Press
Greening Your Wardrobe
By Sarah “Steve” Mosko / Boogie Green
Why Spanos is Only Trying for a >50% Vote to Get a Downtown Stadium
By Bill Adams / UrbDeZine
ACLU Seeks Answers in Arrests at Vigil after Alfred Olango Killing
Ferchil Ramos / San Diego ACLU
Fossil Fuel Extraction Producing Earthquakes in Oklahoma
By John Lawrence
As Trump’s Shadow Grows — Let’s Plant the Seeds of Revolution
By Jeeni Criscenzo / OB Rag
“What Would You Do If Trump Is Elected?” Results From Our Survey
Frank Gormlie / OB Rag
ReWild Mission Bay Unveils Options for Wetland Restoration
Based on News Release from ReWild
The How of Trump’s Little-to-No Personal Tax Payments
By Frank Thomas
Police Shootings: Law, Policy, and Accountability
By William John Cox
Celebrating the 5th Anniversary of San Diego’s Occupy Wall Street
Frank Gormlie / OB Rag
On Being Suicidal
By Will Falk