This week’s edition of Looking Back at the Week contains articles, commentaries, columns, and other work by San Diego Free Press regulars, irregulars, columnists, at-large contributors, and locally and nationally sourced writers on women run, D2, D4, workers struggling, wanting to be heard, candidate canvassing, street scenes, The Jungle, Seize The King, and lots of other grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s feisty, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site. [Read more…]
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Looking Back at the Week: August 5-11
This week’s edition of Looking Back at the Week contains articles, commentaries, columns, and other work by San Diego Free Press regulars, irregulars, columnists, cartoonists, at-large contributors, and locally and nationally sourced writers on SD Deplorables Jerry Sanders & Carl DeMaio, GOP ghouls going after legal immigrants, convention center expansion problems, AB 931, desert dinos, Glow’s Azalea Park murals, Chicano Park Museum and Cultural Center gets their building, and lots of other grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s feisty, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site. [Read more…]
Looking Back at the Week: June 24-30
This week’s edition of Looking Back at the Week contains articles, commentaries, columns, and other work by San Diego Free Press regulars, irregulars, columnists, cartoonists, at-large contributors, and locally and nationally sourced writers on Our Children, immigration policy, the winners and loser of the June Primary, internment camps, community-based block program, 1968, school choice failure, and lots of other grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s feisty, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site. [Read more…]
Looking Back at the Week: April 22-28
This week’s edition of Looking Back at the Week contains articles, commentaries, columns, and other work by San Diego Free Press regulars, irregulars, columnists, cartoonists, at-large contributors, and locally and nationally sourced writers on National Poetry Month, voting, Issa rallies ending, CD6, failure at San Diego County jail, Priscilla Yañez, the last days in Ocean Beach, and lots of other grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s feisty, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site. [Read more…]
Looking Back at the Week: April 1-7
This week’s edition of Looking Back at the Week contains articles, commentaries, columns, and other work by San Diego Free Press regulars, irregulars, columnists, cartoonists, at-large contributors, and locally and nationally sourced writers on National Poetry Month, Trump’s fraudulent voting fraud tales, the 16 trying to replace Issa, Weber’s police accountability bill, former UFCW employees speaking out against Kasparian, and lots of other grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s feisty, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site. [Read more…]
Looking Back at the Week: Feb 25-Mar 3
This week’s edition of Looking Back at the Week contains articles, commentaries, columns, and other work by San Diego Free Press regulars, irregulars, columnists, cartoonists, at-large contributors, and locally and nationally sourced writers on: Black History Month, taking action against gun violence, Trump coming to San Diego, Paula Casillas, My Lai Memorial, DPE for Dummies, and lots of other grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s feisty, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site. [Read more…]
Looking Back at the Week Jan 28-Feb 3
This week’s edition of Looking Back at the Week contains articles, commentaries, columns, and other work by San Diego Free Press regulars, irregulars, columnists, at-large contributors, locally and nationally sourced writers on: those shady Kochs, Stephan’s Soros paranoia, bordertown haters, Huncan Dunter’s fundraising woes, making more affordable housing in San Diego, chocolate and grasshoppers, and lots of other grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s feisty, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site. [Read more…]
Looking Back at the Week January 21-27
This week’s edition of Looking Back at the Week contains articles, commentaries, columns, and other work by San Diego Free Press regulars, irregulars, columnists, at-large contributors, and locally sourced writers on: an early start for Dems, County Supervisor candidates Saldaña, Passons and Fletcher, the endless inegalitarian spiral, blessings, Ohio, Democrats attacking education, clean energy, and lots of other grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s feisty, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site. [Read more…]
Republicans Harkey and Hunter Run on Pity Platform | San Diego’s Congressional Contests
Three of San Diego’s five Congressional districts are, for now, dominated by Democratic incumbents. Electoral contests in the 51st (Vargas), 52nd (Peters), and 53rd (Davis) all include no-name, no-cash–Republican challengers.
Today I’ll focus on the noisy political contests in the 49th and 50th congressional districts, with a cursory listing of the candidates for the non-competitive seats at the end of the column.
The current version of history says the 49th’s retiring Republican Congressman Darrell Issa saw the handwriting on the wall following a surprisingly close election in 2018 and regular protests outside his Vista office.
While I’m sure both things played a role, a personal drama may have played a role in that decision. [Read more…]
Democrats Have Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself
By Kerry Eleveld / Daily Kos
The results of an Ohio special election last week that many viewed as a harbinger for November—and that should have been a gimme for Republicans—aren’t even final yet. And yet even as the GOP candidate in Ohio’s 12th congressional district, Troy Balderson, clings to a lead of less than one percent over Democrat Danny O’Connor, a Washington narrative is developing that the Democratic advantage could all fall apart under the weight of either longtime liberal Nancy Pelosi of California or progressive phenom Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, depending on which article you read.
It’s preposterous. As has been widely reported, House Democrats need to win 23 seats to regain control of the lower chamber and they have some 69 target districts that are less red than OH-12 and ripe for the picking. And yet there’s some scary myth out there that Pelosi’s too establishment and Ocasio-Cortez is too progressive and their mere presence is killing Democratic chances this fall.
Seriously, is this a joke? Just take note, they’re both women and supposedly they’re both the death knell for Democratic success this fall. The New York Times reported last week, for instance, that calls to “Abolish ICE,” partly led by Ocasio-Cortez, had “many Democrats fretting in competitive races.” In the meantime, reporters can’t seem to get enough of perseverating over some 50 Democratic House candidates who say they won’t back Pelosi for speaker if they’re elected or re-elected—something she actually encouraged them to do. Wow, it turns out Democrats truly have the big tent Republicans had been lauded for in theory for decades, but now that conservative advantage has morphed into a liberal liability and Democrats are doooomed! [Read more…]
A Vacation of Joy and Misery and Hope
Maria and I just spent 38 days in Europe with a stop in Philly on the way home, a vacation that had a combination of both joy and misery and ended with notions of hope.
It began with a man driving us from the Madrid-Barajas Airport to our hotel, talking about politics all the while. He wanted us to know that Spaniards, as we Americans do, have a few Donald Trumps around town. He had a lot to say about our president, a man he admired “for how he stepped up and got the U.S. out of the recession.” He finished his praise with “Great man, that Obama.”
All that made us feel very welcomed and eager to explore the city. As soon as we got our luggage in the room we strolled along streets and plazas built a very long time ago, and dined on the tastiest of tapas. We got a good nights sleep and got up the next morning in an easygoing mood, ready to take in as much as we could.
Then came Orlando, news that weakened our knees. [Read more…]
To Be Arab and American
By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
After writing Black History and Women’s History Month articles recently, I thought I would not be covering heritage months for a while. Out of idle curiosity I decided to check the month of April and discovered that much to my surprise, it’s Arab American Heritage Month.
I admit I knew nothing about it and asked myself, “Why didn’t I?” That made me determined to investigate and share what I discovered with readers. I figured it would be fairly simple, given the ubiquitous Wikipedia and the use of several internet search engines (no luck, except for events happening in Maryland and Michigan). As of March 28, when I started writing, there was nothing posted at White House.gov, nor could I find a listing under presidential proclamations.
On a U.S. government website I found it listed with the slogan, “Proud of Our Heritage and Proud to Be American,” and found more detail at the Center for Arab American Philanthropy (CAAP) website [Read more…]