Looking Back at the Week: June 28-July 4

Compiled by Brent E. Beltrán

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: Hateville USA one year later, anti-Vaxxers failing, La Migra hanging with haters, Barrio Logan doing it for themselves again, Ernie getting poetical at a meeting, Mauna Kea protected (for now), marriage equality, occupying the Neighborhood House and the rise of the Chicano Free Clinic (props to Maria E. Garcia on finishing the series!), Cali workers now getting paid sick leave, trending student loan defaults, CV’s rising politico Jason Paguio, and lots of other grassroots news & progressive views.   [Read more…]

Compiled by Brent E. Beltrán

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: a dumb idea to link Balboa Park and Downtown, Dems defecting on TPP, hateful flags, victory in SCOTUS on Obamacare and gay marriage, “The Black Problem,” Falk’s war coverage in Hawaii, white privilege, home grown terror, the takeover of Chicano Park, border boundary monuments, Frye calling for a “massive river park,” Mission Bay restoration, SD’s homeless food fight, and lots of other grassroots news & progressive views.   [Read more…]

Compiled by Brent E. Beltrán

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 Peters/Davis’ disappointing TPP vote, wage theft in the restaurant industry, Uber’s labor situation, hate in Charleston, the Chargers stadium dilemma, vocabulary for haoles, Trump 2016, girls social clubs in Logan Heights, saying no to ALEC in SD, vacation rentals, a Qualcomm exec going to jail, the Maya at the NAT, lifeguards getting screwed out of benefits, and lots more grassroots news and progressive views.   [Read more…]

Compiled 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 and OB Rag regulars, irregulars, columnists, at-large contributors, and sourced writers on SD’s sour politics, the TPP showdown, painful neoliberalism, a pool party in Texas, cyclists getting screwed by SANDAG, attempting to get money out of SD politics (good luck with that), bully Issa, Sweetwater’s reservoir, possible CEQA exemption shenanigans for Mission Valley stadium, early planting, and a whole lot more good stuff from the all volunteer, and occasionally charming, Freeps. All that plus some news and views from our buddies in OB!   [Read more…]

Compiled by Brent E. Beltrán

This week’s edition of Looking Back at the Week features articles, commentaries, columns and toons by San Diego Free Press and OB Rag regulars, irregulars, columnists, at-large contributors, and sourced writers on The Freeps turning 3, demolishing LGBTQ history, the upcoming TPP vote, extreme rain and flooding in Texas, pule action, a certain Repug hypocrite, Los Chicanos social club, thanking Snowden, CHE Café on the endangered list, defending Cory Briggs, and much more news and views, plus the usual selection of goodies from SD’s most funky beach community.

We turned three this week! Happy birthday to us!
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This week’s edition of Looking Back at the Week features articles, commentaries, columns and toons by San Diego Free Press and OB Rag regulars, irregulars, columnists, at-large contributors, and sourced writers on the new SDUT, Bernie running for prez, Dem local problems, memorializing the dead, Ernie’s sweet memories, Ireland choosing equality, St. Oscar’s beatification, Los Lobos de Logan Heights, SOHO awarding Freep Maria, Greek problems, Esco’s loco charters, Will Falk from the summit, some this and that, and a bunch of other stuff from our OB buddies.   [Read more…]

This week’s edition of Looking Back at the Week features articles, commentaries, columns and toons by San Diego Free Press and OB Rag regulars, irregulars, columnists, at-large contributors, and sourced writers on the Chargers stadium deal that’s not a deal for San Diegans, the ACLU taking on haters in Esco, Saint Barb’s pipeline break, activists demanding Peters not sell out the American people on TPP, making tax reform fair, Ken10, student debt, Logan Heights social clubs in the ’50’s, John Lawrence living in a van to pay for his child’s college education, Mauna Kea, and more, plus the usual assorted and sordid tales from our Ocean Beach buddies.   [Read more…]

This week’s edition of Looking Back at the Week features articles, commentaries, columns and toons by San Diego Free Press and OB Rag regulars, irregulars, columnists, at-large contributors, and sourced writers on the labor struggle in San Quintín, GOP vultures, Todd Gloria wanting to change referendum process, Emerald replacements lining up, Jim Miller turning 50, out of touch Issa, 1950’s Logan Heights, a call to close Florida Dr., SD style “progress”, Hawaii haters, the Freeps’ GALASTRAVAGANZAVERSARY, and a tobacco water pipe full of OB news and views   [Read more…]

This week’s edition of Looking Back at the Week features articles, commentaries, columns and toons by San Diego Free Press and OB Rag regulars, irregulars, columnists, at-large contributors, and sourced writers on the cops vs community crisis, the Texas Obamapocalypse, the Civic SD showdown, the UT-SD sale (yes!), stupid neoliberalism, SD’s FY ’16 budget, a certain terror instigator and free speech hater, the Korean War and Logan Heights, SDFP’s website upgrades, the Ruskies in Baja, modern age Jedi raising, protecting Mauna Kea, extreme weather, and a longboard sized helping of news and notices from Ocean Beach.   [Read more…]

Compiled by Brent E. Beltrán

This week’s edition of Looking Back at the Week features articles, commentaries, columns and toons by San Diego Free Press and OB Rag regulars, irregulars, columnists, at-large contributors, and sourced writers on that Nat Geo vanity “doc”, Bernie taking on Hillary, Baltimore cops charged!, the environmental and economic justice challenge in SD, the fall of Saigon’s impact on City Heights, a defensive Civic SD, Ernie still groovin’ and grateful, history for haoles, broken windows plus so much more, and, as always, enough news from OB to fill a sandcastle.   [Read more…]

Compiled by Brent E. Beltrán

This week’s edition of Looking Back at the Week features articles, toons and poetry by San Diego Free Press and OB Rag regulars, irregulars, columnists, at-large contributors, sourced writers and poets on National Poetry Month, Chamber’s widow kicking, manufactured stadium consent, CityBeat slacking, jamming up Peters on TPP, Cali taxes & inequality, CivicSD, bits from the barrio, Gov. Brown chummy with water hogs, stupid people things, watching Mission Valley, Will Falk’’s Hawaiian mountain solidarity, Armenian genocide a century later, and enough OB news to stuff in a traveler’s backpack.   [Read more…]

Compiled by Brent E. Beltrán

This week’s edition of Looking Back at the Week features articles, toons and poetry by San Diego Free Press and OB Rag regulars, irregulars, columnists, at-large contributors, sourced writers and poets on National Poetry Month, the fight for $15, Equal Pay Day, CivicSD, the answer is love, PLACAS, literary giant Eduardo Galeano’s passing, barrio dancers, school districts hoodwinked by Wall St., SDLFF wrap-up, corporate water hogs, and a sandcastle full of beach news from OB.   [Read more…]