Looking Back at the Week: July 23-29

By Brent E. Beltrán

This week’s edition of Looking Back at the Week features articles, commentaries, columns, and other work by San Diego Free Press regulars, irregulars, columnists, at-large contributors, and locally sourced writers on: Republican failure and Obamacare living on, Reefer Madnes redux, presidential transphobia, crowdfunding for Snopes, Border Angels, SDFP’s six journo awards, labor solidarity, SANDAG’s climate change culpability, Dems vying to unseat Huncan Dunter, cleaner and cheaper community choice energy, 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:

Progressive Activist Calendar by Doug Porter
What If Trump Fires Mueller? Progressive Activist Calendar for San Diego: July 28- August 6, 2017

The Starting Line by Doug Porter
Reefer Madness at Trump’s Justice Department
Crowdfunding Keeps Snopes.com Alive, For Now
President Trump Plays Trans Bigot Card As Senate Mulls ‘Skinny Repeal’
Issa Says Obamacare is ‘Stalin-type Socialism,’ Advocates for ‘Freedom’ (to Die)
Escondido Activists Seek to Block Public Library Privatization
Women Led, McCain Followed, Trump Lost, as GOP Healthcare Scheme Fails (For Now)

Under the Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
Summer Chronicles # 3: The Utopia of the Next Moment

Latinos in San Diego by Maria E. García
Border Angels: The Power of One

Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
The Bottom of Light

Video Worth Watching by SDFP Staff
Donald Trump’s First 100 Days In Office (as told by Matt Groening)
New Spelling Bee Rules For Trump’s America
Everything Old Is New Again
Who’s Going to Protect Our LGBTQ Citizens?
Trump Explained: Master of Metaphor or Reality TV Star?
If You’re Relieved By the Defeat of the ‘Skinny Repeal’ Then ‘Raise Your Hand’!

Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán
Looking Back at the Week: July 16-22

San Diego Free Press Regular, At-Large and Locally Sourced Contributors:

Labor Solidarity – Despite Our Differences
By Peter Zscheische

In Congress This Week: July 24, 2017
By Indivisible 49

A Brief History of SANDAG’s Climate Change Culpability
By Duncan McFetridge

SDFP Garners 6 Journo Awards!
By SDFP Staff

Meet the Democrats Vying to Unseat Rep. Duncan Hunter – Part One
By Rick Mercurio / Alianza

I’m Not a Patriot
By Bob Dorn

Study Finds That Community Choice Energy is Cleaner & Cheaper
By Tyson Siegele / SanDiego350

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Brent E. Beltrán

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.