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: Trump’s twitter tantrum, California hate, 2016 voter fraud, Rosalia Salinas, Chef Ramon, Trump reneging, our Jeeni Criscenzo, looking back at B&C, and lots of other grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s friendly, neighborhood, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site.
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I Wanna Be a 501(c)3
By Mic Porte
I wanna be a 501(c)3
I have a worthy cause and I wanna be
The CEO of my favorite charity
A big fat salary with vague accountability
Endorsed by all my friends with their administrative abilities [Read more…]
Measure J: The Mission Bay Park Money Shuffle
Measure J seemed like another non-controversial proposal at first.
It extended the lifetime of an earlier ballot measure dedicating a portion of revenues from leases on properties at Mission Bay Park and shuffled the formula for allocating funds to include other regional parks.
The idea was for these revenues to pay for bonds to be used in capital improvement projects for Mission Bay Park and regional parks, including Balboa Park.
Needless to say, Balboa Park groups existing amidst crumbling buildings and other infrastructure shortcomings were thrilled. [Read more…]
ReWild Mission Bay Unveils Options for Wetland Restoration
8 Restoration Options for Mission Bay Evaluated by More than 100 Community Members
Based on News Release from ReWild via OBRag
On September 27th, ReWild Mission Bay – a project of San Diego Audubon and its partners – unveiled eight possible options to enhance and restore up to 170 acres of wetlands in the North East corner of Mission Bay.
Based on community suggestions from two public workshops earlier this year, the draft plans were presented to more than 135 community members to collect input. To view the potential alternatives, click through to the full article. [Read more…]
An Agnostic Road to Almost Becoming A Believer (Not)
Let’s begin this article by acknowledging that I am not a believer. I am agnostic at best; still looking for answers that I haven’t yet found. With that in mind, three things have happened over the past few years that I can’t explain, and the latest still gives me goose bumps in thinking about it. Let’s start at the beginning.
Seven years ago my husband Bob died. I joined a widow support group and one of the things we decided to do was to see if a “Medium” could bring our husbands messages back to us. There were nine of us going to Harmony Grove to find out.
As we were all coming from different parts of San Diego, we met at a central location, and I drove with Rosey to meet the others. On the way there, she mentioned that she was always puzzled why she had such a bad relationship with her mother. She said it was as if her mother didn’t like her; liked her sister and her brother, but she was always the “odd one out.” Rosey and I were the only ones in the car. [Read more…]
Looking Back at the Week: January 3-9
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, cartoonists, at-large contributors, and sourced writers on: K-Faulc’s state of the city speech, Chargers going bye bye, a Hollywood Penn-dejo, homelessness, The Rainmaker, DACA, The Bedeviled Dictionary, a homeless hockey player’s death, Good Samaritans, and lots of other inspiring, grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s friendly, neighborhood, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site.
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Readers Write: Official Recognition of San Diego’s ‘Good Samaritans’
By Mic Porte
San Diego hosts many people. We advertise our world famous beaches, attractions and weather to the world. We invite people to come. We pay fancy advertising campaigns on the billboards of Times Square in New York City at New Year’s.
The police, fire-rescue, lifeguards, Coast Guard, cannot patrol every inch of coastline, border, road, etc. It is a tribute to the Good Samaritans among us that there are not more tragedies along the coast, on the roads, and in other public places. [Read more…]
Birds of Paradise Art Show at Te Mana Cafe
For the remainder of June, local beach artist Micaela Porte is displaying her recent works – Birds of Paradise – at Te Mana Cafe in Ocean Beach, over at 4956 Voltaire Street.
The show has been running since the end of April. They’re open daily until 6 pm, closed Wednesdays.
Micaela told us that acrylic paint, some old canvases and bird of paradise heads from one of her neighbor’s yard inspired a binge of colorful paintings of bird of paradise flowers – which all harmonize with the aloha theme at the Te Mana garden cafe. [Read more…]
¡GOL! A Euro-American Woman’s Thoughts Turn to Fútbol
World Cup 2014
By Mic Porte
There I was, Thursday morning June 12, worrying about security in my hometown of Pacific Beach, the highest crime area in the city of San Diego. I was wondering how to interpret the previous evening’s powder-puff security forum at PB Middle School hosted by the new chief of police, Shelley Zimmerman and new temporary “everyman” council person/ lifeguard lieutenant, Ed Harris. Still mulling over the layers of bureaucracy that muddle the question of “who’s in charge now?” all of a sudden, I remembered.
I remembered what I’d been telling myself not to forget for the past several busy months. The Thing. The World Cup of Football(Soccer). Yes, it was here and I am penning this “au revoir” for the next several weeks to everything else. My thoughts turn to the strivings of athletic souls and stalwart warriors of the field , team against team, nation against nation, method against method, player against player, all football, all the time, thank you FIFA! [Read more…]
SDFP Turns Two: Celebration Time!
A growing SDFP community continues to write the people’s history
By Anna Daniels
On Sunday June 1, San Diego Free Press editors, contributors and supporters celebrated our second year anniversary. There was much to celebrate. Since our inception on June 4, 2012, we have published over 3,000 articles and provided original content seven day a week through an all volunteer effort. New writers with unique perspectives and interests have joined us in the past year and editor Doug Porter of The Starting Line fame published his 500th article. Our growing readership tells us that we have been able to consistently provide relevant content.
The articles we publish run the gamut of news, analysis, opinion, personal interest stories and the arts. What sets SDFP apart from other media is that these articles are all provided by citizen journalists. These citizen journalists often provide information about communities that are ignored, stereotyped and marginalized. We are essentially writing a people’s history of San Diego in which we are not only observers but becoming agents of change too. [Read more…]
The Marshians Have Arrived – Eco-Activist-Art in Pacific Beach
Update Given on Release of 7 Clapper Rails Last Year
By Mic Porte/ OBRag
The Kendall-Frost UCSD Marsh research facility at the corner of Mission Bay was host to a Marshian Art encounter of the first kind, Saturday evening, April 12, Marshian Day.
Inaugurating her mural, Celeste Byers, UCSD student and art muralist, and friends and supporters of The Marsh, joined in art and music to celebrate. Some 40 people attended and enjoyed the musical event. The photos document the completed mural on Saturday and Celeste Byers, after she signed the mural on Monday.
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Prune Nourry: French Artist’s Terracotta Daughters Are on the Move
By Mic Porte
I love Paris, the city where people will stand attentively in line for hours to view an art exposition. Galleries, book stores and theaters are always packed. In France, food is art, clothing is art, life is art, and art is in their hearts from the beginning of recorded time– think of the beautiful Lascaux prehistoric cave paintings.
French children are taught art appreciation from day one and it reflects in the architecture and design and lifestyle all around the country. Visual art. The French invented photography and cinema to further the reach of art for the modern world. They are not afraid to expand the boundaries of acceptability, always challenging our perspective of the world, from Impressionism to Dadaism.
The 2014 Spring Equinox heralds the arrival of one of their own, Prune Nourry, young woman sculptress and multimedia artist, and her astonishing and powerful army of Terracotta Daughters, come to Paris to change the world. There is one word to describe this art show: Awesome. [Read more…]