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, cartoonists, and sourced writers on: Ballast Point boycott, Russia, border rally cancellation, the immoral budget, weathering storms, SD’s homelessness calamity, Huncan Dunter under investigation, Carlsbad’s cameras, the damning of Park City, 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
Ballast Point Boycott Tied to Support for Congressman Paul Ryan, Trumpcare Fight
Club for Growth Ad Campaign Targets Congressman Issa on Health Care Bill
FBI: Russia! Dems: Russia! Media: Russia! Republicans: Who Snitched?
San Ysidro Border Rally Canceled, Questions About Sponsor Remain Unanswered
Progressive Activist Calendar March 24 – April 4, 2017
Under the Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
A Deeply Immoral Budget
From The Soul by Ernie McCray
Weathering Storms
Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
The New Cold War
North of the Fence by Barbara Zaragoza
Hector Gastelum Won’t Resign and Rally at the Border Cancelled
Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán
Looking Back at the Week: March 12-18
San Diego Free Press Regular, At-Large and Locally/Nationally Sourced Contributors:
Should We Pay the Rich to Build Infrastructure, Then Pay Them to Use It?
By Dave Johnson / People’s Action Blog
San Diego’s Homelessness Calamity: You Have Just Entered the Twilight Zone
By Norma Damashek / NumbersRunner
Teamsters Going After Opioid Profiteers
By Sarah Anderson / OtherWords.org
Jig Up for Duncan Hunter This Week?
By Dweisman / Escondido Grapevine
The Insidious Effect on the Pysche of Trump’s Torrent of Lies
By Neil Baron / AlterNet
Economist Kenneth Arrow, Nobel Laureate, Dead at 95
By John Lawrence
Midway Planning Group Hosting Beach Community Planners Discussion About Homelessness in April
By Geoff Page / OB Rag
Carlsbad Leaders Use Alternative Facts to Bring in ‘Big Brother’ Stationary Cameras
By Richard Riehl / The Riehl World
Citing FBI Probe of Trump, Democrats Told to ‘Declare National Emergency’
By Jon Queally / Common Dreams
Working with ‘New Americans’: Catherine Holmes’ Speech at the Women’s Leadership Symposium at Kent State University
By Yuko Kurahashi
Readers Write: Piercing The North County Bubble I’ve Put My Children In
By Rachel Stewart Johnson, Ph.D.
San Diego Council Committee to Hear Proposals for Short-Term Rentals – Fri., Mar. 24th
By Frank Gormlie / OB Rag
Why Johnny Can’t Read — the Future of Education in the US
By Robert Smith
Park City is Damned: A Case Study in Civilization
By Will Falk