Looking Back at the Week: Nov 26-Dec 2

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 Flynn flipping, Geneviéve Jones-Wright, right wing pedophiles, David Myers, trouble at Bridgepoint, pulling the plug on high school football, Huncan Dunter, 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
Flynn Flips, Republican Tax Scam Lives On, for Now – Progressive Activist Calendar, December 1-11, 2017

The Starting Line by Doug Porter
District Attorney Candidate Geneviéve Jones-Wright Runs on a Reform Agenda for San Diego
Right Wing Scam Supporting Pedophile Fails: Democratic Institutions Under Attack
County Sheriff Race Heats Up As Incumbent Gore’s Workplace Retaliation Revealed
Once a San Diego Wunderkind, Bridgepoint Education Faces Significant Legal Troubles

Under the Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
Will 2018 Be the Year of the Education War Inside the California Democratic Party?

From The Soul by Ernie McCray
Waiting for Dark Clouds to Lift Someday

Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Geo-Poetic Spaces: Portrait of My Parents As Lovers

Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán
Looking Back at the Week: November 19-25

El Machete Illustrated by Eric J. Garcia
NRA and GOP Making Out

Video Worth Watching by SDFP Staff
Evan Ziporyn’s ‘Frog’s Eye’: Motion, Stillness, Survival
The Art of Flying – A Murmuration of Starlings
Who’s in Charge at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau? Mick Mulvaney or Leandra English?
The Last Original Navajo Code Talker: Chester Nez
Full Frontal’s Undercover Sting
Who Can You Trust Most Not To Show Their Penis In A Professional Setting?
Nature Boy – Then (Nat King Cole) and Now (David Bowie & Massive Attack)

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

White Man Fights Slavery, Calls for Ending Public Education
By Thomas Ultican

Issa Report: Bogus IRS ‘Scandal’ Ends in a Whimper, Payday Lenders Fund Campaigns
Reposted from Escondido Grapevine

Republican Tax Bill Paves Way for the Destruction of Social Security, Medicare, and Safety Net
By Joan McCarter / Daily Kos

Readers Write: Time to Pull the Plug on Football in City Schools?
By John Stump

Duncan Hunter Vapes While Opponents Organize
By DWeisman/Escondido Grapevine

Carr, Geraci Believe a Democrat Can Top Waldron in the 75th Assembly District
By Rick Mercurio / Alianza North County

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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.