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: the race in D9, the City Attorney campaign, feeling meh about D3 county contest, bad news money blues, Obama’s wilderness legacy, a water goddess, Chargerfication, Standing Rock, Buddhist econ, 58% supporting marijuana legalization, déjà vu in North County, and lots of other grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s friendly, neighborhood, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site.   [Read more…]

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: California’s US Senate race, Applegate vs Issa, state legislature ballot choices, Labor day Cali style, displaying patriotism, #NoDAPL, defending the water, no respect in America, anti-Bobism, Black Uhuru, Jill Stein, SANDAG twisting enviro laws, and lots of other grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s friendly, neighborhood, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site.   [Read more…]

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: SB 32, Trump trying to go black, the upcoming propositions, taco trucks on every corner, love in the anthropocene, Colin Kaepernick, drugs, the plastic bag battle, free classes in SD, and lots of other grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s friendly, neighborhood, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site.   [Read more…]

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: dead thoroughbreds, the death of an OB Torrey Pine, a sneak peak at November’s ballot, Trump’s cockroach army, the need to pass Prop 55, dreaming alone, Gateway Inn charged, Inez, Milholland, SeaWorld disturbing the peace, Spanos hating on the homeless, Darrell’s BS, and lots of other grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s friendly, neighborhood, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site.   [Read more…]

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: homelessness, judging the judges, hot July, an alternative vision for the East Village, SD Vets protest air show, what depression feels like, knowing your rights during disasters, 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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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 sourced writers on: what many people are saying, Da Bonnie subpoenaed, GOP doom and gloom, Ellis dropping out, Barrios Against Stadiums, the local abortion fight, electing Dems, Midge Costanza, adjuncts, money in Carlsbad, and lots of other inspiring, grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s friendly, neighborhood, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site.   [Read more…]

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 sourced writers on: Trump’s rough week, marijuana edible madness, Chicano Park Museum fundraiser, dismantled rock art in OB, San Onofre’s whistleblower, Moxie and Cygnet’s latest, better land use in NC, walking amongst ancestorsand lots of other inspiring, grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s friendly, neighborhood, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site.   [Read more…]

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 sourced writers on: whether Trump will arrest Clinton if elected, doing whatever it takes, Fiesta Island’s future, love and meritocracy, Chicana pioneer Andrea Skorepa retiring, storm clouds over Illa Del, healthy communities in National City, and lots of other inspiring, grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s friendly, neighborhood, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site.   [Read more…]

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 sourced writers on: SDFP winning a bucketful of SPJ awards, the Repug convention, exposing hate in America, Pride 2016, the BLM march, keeping Fiesta Island wild, SD’s plastic bag ban, power and direct action, and lots of other inspiring, grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s friendly, neighborhood, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site.   [Read more…]

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 sourced writers on: protest and racism, Dems kind of uniting, the City Attorney being a jerk, B.A.STA!, gun sales rising, the new pedestrian crossing at the San Ysidro port of entry, the LeGerrette’s, the Convadium, turf wars at school, BLM, bomba founders moving away, 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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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 sourced writers on: the killer of homeless people, police killings in Louisiana & Minnesota, police deaths in Dallas – a horrible, horrible week – helping homeless during the All-Star game, Carlsbad, putting lipstick on the convadium pig, taking a trip to Baja, Surfrider’s half ton trash cleanup, failing deported veterans and lots of other inspiring (and, like this week, sometimes depressing), grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s friendly, neighborhood, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site.   [Read more…]

By Brent E. Beltrán

This week’s edition of Looking Back at the Week features articles, commentaries, columns, satire, and other work by San Diego Free Press regulars, irregulars, columnists, at-large contributors, and sourced writers on: SCOTUS striking down Texas abortion law, Benghazi benshmazi, legalizing it, Trump-O, money for everything but the homeless, Brexit, Fringe Festival, the hunger strike against private prisons, restoring local canyons and lots of other inspiring (and sometimes depressing), grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s friendly, neighborhood, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site.   [Read more…]