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 cleaning the County house, Gropey Old Perverts, Matt Strabone, County jail deaths, changing the culture of the Democratic Party, remembering Debbie, accolades for Maria Garcia, the televangelical Disneyland in Mission Valley, 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
100,000 Diapers Needed; Here’s How You Can Help – Progressive Activist Calendar November 17-27, 2017
The Starting Line by Doug Porter
2018: Time to Clean House in County Government
Gropey Old Perverts Need a Tax Bill Win to Keep Billionaire Contributions Flowing
County Elections Matter: Matt Strabone’s Campaign for Assessor/Recorder/Clerk
County Jail Deaths Don’t Matter in San Diego
Under the Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
Donna Brazile is Still Right: The Culture of the Democratic Party Needs to Change
From The Soul by Ernie McCray
Remembering Debbie
Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Inside The Box
Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán
Looking Back at the Week: November 5-11
Video Worth Watching by SDFP Staff
Randy Rainbow Asks ‘How Do You Solve a Problem Like Korea?’
Ta-Nehisi Coates on using/not using the N-word | Video Worth Watching
Treasury Secretary Mnuchin, Commerce Secretary Ross, Putin’s son-in-law linked by the Paradise Papers
Silencing Women in Politics – The Threat to Democracy From Gender-Based Online Harassment
Senate Republicans’ Tax Cut Bill Now Also a Sneaky Repeal of Obamacare … It’s a TwoFor!
Weedinol – Ask Your Doctor If It’s Right for You
Operatico Politico Returns with Rock Opera vs. Trump – Queen Edition
San Diego Free Press Regular, At-Large and Locally Sourced Contributors:
Hi-Tech Profit and Power Trump Good Pedagogy
By Thomas Ultican / Tultican
Readers Write: Another ‘Business As Usual’ Fixer at City Hall Won’t Help the Homeless
By Martha Sullivan / San Diego Housing Emergency Alliance
San Diego’s Community Choice Energy Technical Study Stands Up Under Scrutiny
By Tyson Siegele / San Diego 350
The Deadly Link Between Domestic Violence and Mass Shootings
By Sher Watts Spooner / Daily Kos
County Government Laid Bare
By Norma Damashek
Accolades for Maria Garcia, ‘La Neighbor’
By Anna Daniels
Letter from Puerto Rico: ‘56 days after Maria and honestly everyone here is tired’
By Jessica Carrera
Televangelist Extremist Morris Cerullo Got His Disneyland Park in Mission Valley
By Frank Gormlie