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Don’t you just love living in San Francisco? After passing nearly unanimously at the Democratic County Central Committee, Supervisor Chris Daly has submitted the following resolution to the Board of Supervisors. Hurray. Impeach Bush, but Impeach Cheney first!!!

Please come next Tuesday for a press conference in support of the resolution!!! 12 PM, Front steps of City Hall. Yeah Chris!

Resolution calling for a full investigation, impeachment or resignation of President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard B. Cheney.

This seems to be cultural week for me, for some reason, but I ran across the Queer Music Heritage site today.

I am not sure, exactly, what constitutes “queer music” but whatever it is, this site seems to have it. There’s even a special page for gay marriage songs. Apparently, there’s a queer music show on the Pacifica radio station in Houston, and this is the companion web site. Worth checking out.

San Francisco was given an honorable mention by Bicycling Magazine for being one of the best medium-sized cities in the US to bike in.

One of the most important factors — and one in which San Francisco fared well — was whether a city had public-sponsored programs and projects for cyclists.

SF Bicycle Coalition president Leah Shahum noted that The City was listed among the top three in a 2001 ranking by Bicycling.

At SFUSD’s Registration Fair, the presenter for the District’s Education Placement Center gave parents instructions on filling the registration forms to choose a school for their children.

When he reached the discussion on high school, he told us about the “L” factor. Over one fourth of all incoming ninth graders choose as one of their top choices-Lincoln High School in the Sunset.

Lincoln has the second largest enrollment in the District-trailing Lowell by only 100 students. But Lincoln also has the largest achievement gap of any high school-214 points between its average API (772 points) and the API of its African-American students (554 points). This is a gap of 28% from Lincoln’s overall API scores.

For those of you who can stomach it, there’ll be a live, outdoor projection of the State of the Union speech tomorrow (Tuesday) at Market and Sanchez. It starts at 6. Press release below:

VIDEO ARTIST TO PROJECT STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS

Experiment in distorted projection of George W. Bush speech at Market and
Sanchez

SAN FRANCISCO - Bay Area video artist Bijan Yashar will project in
real-time George W. Bush’s 2006 State of the Union address onto a wall
adjacent to a defunct Shell gas station at the Corner of Market and
Sanchez. He will filter the live speech through a camera utilizing extreme
and shifting angles to underscore point of view and bias in political
posturing.

Details are pretty sketchy right now, but it appears that there’s been a breakthrough on negotiations around Ammiano’s public health care proposal.

Apparently, Tom and the Chamber of Commerce have gotten together, along with the Mayor’s Office, and put together something that will go a long way toward providing health care for every San Franciscan. We expect more details tomorrow, but so far it appears that this will be a significant move forward.

I blogged a couple months ago about the artist who rendered San Francisco in Jello.

I am totally excited to hear that her amazing creation will be viewable this Friday the 3rd, at the opening of an exhibit at the Exploratorium, from 7-9pm.

Today marks the first anniversary of Left in SF. We began on January 29th, 2005 with a warning of an attack on workers’ rights by the Committee On Jobs.

Since then we’ve averaged over 2 posts a day, and brought you the most comprehensive coverage anywhere of San Francisco schools and the city’s Tech Connect Wi-Fi initiative. We’ve been dogging the Governor from our first week, and brought you news from the streets all during the special election that followed.

We’ve been a source of information for people looking to learn more about LGB and especially T issues, and we’ve published several pictures that have struck a chord with folks on the web.

The powerful California Teacher’s Association endorsed Phil Angelides for Governor on Saturday. So far every union has endorsed Angelides. My bet is on Angelides to win the primary. Any takers?

I did a blog on Angelides last winter. And here is a description of him from the Nation.

Angelides has pushed both funds to adopt a whirlwind of reforms–dumping tobacco stocks, blacklisting ten “emerging markets” that ignore international labor standards, redeploying capital to neglected sectors like inner-city redevelopment and innovative environmental technologies, and, above all, peppering scores of corporations, banks, brokerages, financial markets and federal regulators with critiques and demands for change.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Of California’s 13 largest urban public school districts, San Francisco Unified District has the largest “achievement gap”. The achievement gap is defined as the difference between the district’s average Academic Performance Index score (a measurement for state-mandated tests) and the average Academic Performance Index score for its African-American students.

For the last two years, SFUSD has had an overall achievement gap of 72 points for its African American students. The API scores for its Latino students are also lagging.