Blueprint Briefing: Week of 9/15/2025

We agree with Supervisor Matt Dorsey: it’s time to streamline impractical bureaucracy.

In a city that’s facing a historic budget deficit, we need to make City Hall work better. In this vein, openly gay District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey has made a refreshingly pragmatic - albeit, perhaps surprising - suggestion: let’s take a serious look at whether San Francisco’s 1996 Equal Benefits Ordinance still makes sense in 2025. Read more here.

This guy got $30K of SF taxpayer dollars...to hate on SF on social media.

The SF Arts Commission recently made just over $10M in grants from Prop E funds, and based on initial reporting from the Voice of San Francisco, we dug into the 151 recipients of grants from this most recent cycle; what we found can only be described as questionable allocations. Read more here.

We shouldn't accept sh*tty public transit. Literally.

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again - public transit will never work as well as it could without necessary investments in public safety at and around transit stops. The SF Standard released an article earlier this month outlining which MUNI lines were - quite literally - the shittiest. Yes - the Standard went through all of the 311 complaints related to MUNI and isolated all related to run-ins with fecal matter by line. This situation and other incidents cannot continue if we want to have a robust public transit system. Read more here.