Safari users your link to our featured story on drug use at 16th street is here.
And if you’re healthy but uninsured you don’t want to miss our report on Healthy San Francisco. What is it you ask, well you better find out fast. Brooke Minters reports that under the president’s proposed health plan, “individuals will be required to carry basic health insurance – just as most states require you to carry auto insurance.”
But this is likely to exclude our undocumented community. The Chronicle reports that the health care reform bill in the House explicitly bars “undocumented aliens” from receiving federally subsidized health benefits.
Moving on, will ending gun shows halt gun violence in the Mission District?
The Board of Supervisors and San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris have pushed for a ban of frequent gun shows held at the Cow Palace . The event center located on Geneva Ave. is near the Mission District, Sunnydale public housing project, Visitacion Valley, and Bayview-Hunters Point.
The Mission District has seen a jump in non-fatal shooting – the latest victim a man injured in a shooting near 25th and Florida as recently as two days ago.
An assembly bill to ban the show has passed the full Legislature but will return to the Senate for a vote before heading to the governor’s desk for either a veto or signature into law.
If Schwarzenegger signs the bill, the ban becomes effective 2013. The next gun show is scheduled for next weekend.
And lastly if your looking for a place you can bring your baby cousin and grandma to on a Friday night check out Submission- an all ages venue on Mission and 18th street. Tonight features cumbia, reggae, and tropical music.
– Amanda